Stubenwände 
Solo-Exhibition, 2026 

The solo exhibition Stubenwände was realised inside Carl Hermann’s former house and atelier. Hermann was an austrian artist and freedom-fighter during the second world war who was later known to collect and archive the folktales around the area of Lower Austria and became an important figure for the protection and restoration of the natural environment of the Blockheide, a nature reserve in Gmünd, Lower Austria. Upon reading them I was left with a fascination for the way they blend together pagan myths and christian ideology. Forest spirits meet fairies meet god and the devil.
I decided to similarly contrast conflicting ideologies by translating them into everyday paraphernalia that is usually lost into the visual background information of homes. Homes that I saw a lot of growing up, stuffed with kitsch decorations and heavily charged symbols that seem to suffocate in a quotidien non-chalance.

Being made from bread reduces their material value to the same level, so does the hanging at eye-level. While every object speaks of – at times –conflicting ideals, no one narrative is positioned over the other.
It is a very peculiar feature of rural space, the way apparently conflicting motives can exist next to each other. While secludedness in a lot of ways enables insularity, it nonetheless gives us an example of communicating and coming together despite conflicting perceptions of the world and the systems determining it. 
Thank you to Neda Rimaitė for helping me with the curation and setup.