An event organized by Basement.

In its final exhibition of 2025, basement (on the move) presents works by German artist Ulrike Donié and Vienna-based Annika Eschmann at puuul in 1080 Vienna. Under this year’s theme “Transitions – Reality or Fiction”, the participating artists explore the question of how reality is constructed in very different ways. Both artists share an interest in artistic research and systems. Where do their approaches intersect? How do our words and thoughts shape what we perceive as reality? And conversely, how do images and objects we experience with our senses influence the terms we use to describe our world?

Annika Eschmann’s work “Line 66–75” is a recording system consisting of drawings on paper that change in parallel with their own development, shaped by experience and learning. The drawings follow two constant parameters or conditions: each is made using a single line, and the line must not intersect itself.

In Ulrike Donié’s work “Cycles”, the emergence and development of life is juxtaposed with dissolution and decay. Water reflections, pond biotopes, jungles, and organic or animal-like forms are staged as archetypes in order to depict the primal nature of these events as an eternal process.