Conference language:
German I English (simultaneous translation)

Hybrid event:
All presentations and discussions are accessible on-site as well as via live streaming.

A conference of BIG
in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna

BIG ART realizes art projects and is responsible for the art inventory in the buildings of the Austrian Federal Real Estate Company (BIG). The growing stock of artworks and artistic interventions, necessary renovations and extensions of the buildings as well as a shortage of space in general make the question of how to preserve and archive these artifacts more and more virulent. The BIG understands this problem as one of the cultural and socio-political challenges of the present and discusses together with experts from different fields which structural conditions are necessary to secure the room for maneuver for preservation on the one hand and the creation of something new on the other hand.

Speakers:
– Jakob Helmut Deibl, assistant professor for religion and aesthetics, University of Vienna
-Uta Hassler, architect and emeritus professor of architecture, ETH Zurich
– Cathrine Mellander Backman, Senior Advisor in the Cultural Environment Department of the Swedish National Heritage Board
– Linus Neumann, hacker, spokesman for the Chaos Computer Club
– Henrik Orrje, Head of Care, Collection and Adminstration, Public Art Agency Sweden
– Katrina Petter, Head of Art in Public Space Lower Austria
– Hans Ulrich Reck, philosopher and art historian, emeritus professor of art history in a media context and rector of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne until 2020

Moderation:
– Claudia Büttner, art historian and freelance curator, Munich
– Klaus-Jürgen Bauer, architect, architectural theorist, author, exhibition curator, adult educator, long-time member of the BIG ART advisory board
– Cornelia Offergeld, curator and art historian, chairwoman of the BIG ART advisory board