Vienna. My History

The fig­ures of the Don­ner­brun­nen are coura­geous­ly freed from their con­fig­u­ra­tion in order to make their grace and the unique qual­i­ty of the sculp­tur­al work tan­gi­ble through the open­ings. Already on the ground floor, vis­i­tors encounter the bod­ies, their unusu­al pos­tures and the float­ing fish under Nep­tune’s weapon. The floor open­ing above the medieval cathe­dral sculp­tures reveals a view of the large mod­el of St. Stephen’s Cathe­dral, which can now also be expe­ri­enced from the inside in an ide­al­ized Goth­ic form using a VR sta­tion. At hall lev­el, the cathe­dral is expe­ri­enced slight­ly low­ered between the two floors in its own, open spa­tial plateau that invites you to linger with­out dom­i­nat­ing the hall.

All objects in this orig­i­nal Vien­na space have a polit­i­cal dimen­sion. The Lueger car­riage rush­ing past the stair­case, the majes­tic Wald­heim horse and the for­mer South Sta­tion let­ter­ing bear wit­ness to the con­stant change, polit­i­cal forces and dis­cord as well as the cheer­ful splen­dor and joie de vivre of Vien­na. The chrono­log­i­cal­ly arranged rooms are grouped around this cen­ter and are designed as inde­pen­dent spa­tial scenogra­phies in typ­i­cal chezweitz lan­guage. Each room tells its own sto­ry and takes vis­i­tors on a fas­ci­nat­ing jour­ney through Vien­na’s com­plex past.