Ernst Strouhal – författare

Liddy Scheffknecht is one of Austria’s most experimental young visual artists. The publication Liddy Scheffknecht – Points in Time presents selected works from the past decade (2010–2020). Liddy Scheffknecht’s work encompasses a broad spectrum of media, yet forms a coherent, ongoing artistic program. In photographic sequences, installations, sculptures, drawings, and media hybrids, the artist explores the relationship between temporality, perception, and space; in doing so, she creates and ruptures illusions in equal measure. Liddy Scheffknecht’s artistic works use immaterial media such as sunlight and shadow as well as classical sculptural materials and digital media.

On the trail of air, wind, and breath Wind moves – both things and human thought. The wind is also a harbinger both of new beginnings and of decay, of control and chaos, and the destructive force of the wind is central to the debate on climate change. The book Wenn der Wind weht / When the Wind Blows is being published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at KUNST HAUS WIEN, in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna. It presents more than twenty artistic projects that render the unseen elements air, wind, and breath visible in different ways. Ernst Strouhal traces (cultural) stories of the wind in his text “Flying Robert and His Kin,” while curators Verena Kaspar-Eisert and Liddy Scheffknecht look at air as a medium in contemporary art. Publication to accompany the exhibition at KUNST HAUS WIEN; awarded as one of the most beautiful books in Austria 2022Works by Hoda Afshar, Ólafur Elíasson, Ulay / Marina Abramović, and others With a conversation between historian/author Philipp Blom and climate researcher Helga Kromp-Kolb

Von den Rändern Europas ins Zentrum der Metropolen: In »Über kurz oder lang« erweist sich Ernst Strouhal einmal mehr als brillanter Essayist und kritischer Zeitgenosse.Die Reportagen aus den letzten Jahren entführen uns auf eine Reise durch ein anderes, bislang unentdecktes Europa zum Entmagnetisierungspunkt auf Rügen, ins Schweizer Schattenreich des Geldes, ins Wiener Hotel Kummer oder in Kaffeehausgespräche.Autobiografisches trifft auf unterhaltsam-ironische Einsichten in Politik und Geistesgeschichte, während die Leser:innen dem fliegenden Robert, einer Brückensammlerin oder einem Kunstlutscher begegnen dürfen.