Under the title Foundation Requirements, Dejanoff, in his role as a contemporary artist, explores traditional building methods and materials such as wood, stone and clay as they were found in his houses or still exist in fragments.

Auer investigates the toilet signs at the Kunsthaus, challenging tradi-tional gender images and divisions with her artistic, interventionist commentaries.

While many crop varieties have been created over the centuries by constant selection and crossing, so improving the world’s food security, the number of species and varieties in use has been dramat-ically reduced in the course of just a few decades.

Once again, Manfred Erjautz manages to undermine presumed certainties about the means of the sculptural process.

Across the world, more and more buildings are being constructed in wood. In the cities too, and even high-rise structures. The fact that tall wooden buildings such as the 24-storey Hoho in Vienna are possible is largely due to research at Graz University of Technology, where the groundwork for the development of cross laminated timber was laid in 1989.

The steel trusses that fit so well into the architecture of the Kunsthaus have had a previous life.

With the help of the Limnological Institute in Konstanz, Sarah Bildstein analysed water samples from all over the world.

Gaisbacher spent several weeks in Stanz reflecting from an artistic perspective on a successful participation project initiated in 2016 as part of a local revitalisation.