Eröffnung: Edith Payer „Zeitkapsel – Als die Dinge kleiner waren“ | Vienna Art Week 2026

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Edith Payer transforms the KUNSTZELLE, which is already making history as a former phonebooth, into a time capsule. In the installation in “When things were smaller”, selected objects from the artist’s childhood are on display. There will be a selection curated by her, from jewelry, toys, letters and collections of the balls of ink cartridges, animal posters and much more. These exciting relicts from the 70s and 80s provide a personal insight into the private thoughts of a child and at the same time reflect the materiality of the capitalist-industrial society of the time.

At the opening Edith Payer will talk about her work, music cassettes recorded by her will be played and a small buffet with party mushrooms and pickers will be served to reminisce about old times. So memories (of older people) could be mixed with retro feelings (of younger people) in an exciting way.

ART SPACE

Währinger Straße 59, Wien

christine.baumann@wuk.at

KUNSTZELLE

The KUNSTZELLE, a former telephone booth from the 1960s, is prominently located in the courtyard of the WUK cultural and workshop centre and has been a site for artistic installations and interventions since 2006. Removed from its original context, it becomes an interface between art, everyday life and the public sphere.

Curated by initiator Christine Baumann together with Pablo Chiereghin, the program approaches the KUNSTZELLE as an open site that is continually revisited and re-examined. Artists repeatedly explore the possibilities of the space in new ways, developing site-specific works. Every three years, the program is expanded through selected projects by students of the TransArts class at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.