Modelling Space

Friedrich Kiesler’s interventions can be read as models for universal visions that the architect, designer and theorist transferred to both his sculptural and architectural work. His concepts are based on a system of pioneering steps and document the Modernist demand for the development of innovative and flexible design principles for our environment. International art and architecture experts will be exploring the complex topic of Modelling Space contemporary production during the symposium of the same title.

Programme

03:00 pm
welcome address
Monika Pessler, Director Kiesler Private Foundation Vienna
Hannes Pflaum, President Architekturzentrum Wien

Speakers
03:30 pm – 04:15 pm
Antje von Graevenitz, art theorist
“Kieslers Entwurf für ein galaktisches Leben auf Erden”

04:15 pm – 05:00 pm
Olafur Eliasson, artist and Kiesler Prize holder 2006 and Hani Rashid, architect and Kiesler Prize holder 2004
Dialogue: ‘On Art Architecture Ambiance’

Break

05:15 pm – 06:00 pm
Ben van Berkel, architect
‘The Capacity of Endlessness’

06:00 pm – 06:45 pm
Kurt W. Forster, art and architecture theorist
‘Infinite Space in a Nutshell’

moderated by Elke Krasny, architecture and art theorist

Followed by the 10th jubilee of the Kiesler Private Foundation celebrations.

07:00 pm
Dieter Bogner, President Kiesler Private Foundation Vienna
Monika Pessler, Director Kiesler Private Foundation Vienna
Hannes Pflaum, President Architekturzentrum Wien

Guest Speakers
Claudia Schmied, Minister for Education, the Arts and Culture
Peter Kowalski, head of department Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research

admission free!