Eva Schlegel is one of Austria’s most internationally renowned artists. Her work focuses on the concept of space, immateriality and the relationship between image and language.

In collaboration with 2MVD, Eva Schlegel is developing AR installations for the European Capital of Culture 2024 Salzkammergut, thereby expanding her exploration of the relationship between perception and spatial potentials, material and immaterial, object and human to include a virtual medium. “Memories from the Future” reflects on the locations and their history, with the location taking on the role of a generator and the visitors themselves becoming an active part of the event.

At 3 different locations in the Salzkammergut, the animated sculptures by Eva Schlegel and 2MVD will be visible outside and inside by means of a QR code.

1.    Toplitzsee: This work is about the many secrets that the Toplitzsee holds and reveals by means of virtual narratives. Be it the enigmatic NS treasure or the fabulous animal world. (QR code on the lakeshore, permanently accessible)

2.    Sudhaus: Stories about salt are retold and wrap themselves around the visitors

3.    Bräuwiese – Traunsee: Digital eyes observe and follow the explorers (QR code on the lakeshore, permanently accessible)

4.    Spitzvilla: Digital eyes observe and follow the explorers (QR code on the lakeshore, permanently accessible)

Eva Schlegel (*1960 ) studied fine arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. After several stays abroad she was a professor of art and photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1997 to 2006. In 2011, she was commissioner for the Austrian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale. As a freelance artist, her work in photography, installation, painting, and film focuses primarily on architectural and immaterial space and its perception by the viewer. Since 1985 her works have been shown in numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad. She designed the Austrian Pavilion together with Coop Himmelb(l)au as part of the Venice Biennale in 1995 and participated in the Kochin Biennale in India in 2017, together with Carl Pruscha. Besides her exhibitions in galleries and museums, Eva Schlegel implemented permanent, site-specific projects in Basel, Copenhagen, Mumbai, Stockholm, Vienna, and San Francisco, among others.