Eröffnung & Performance: Anne Glassner / Lisa Spalt: 'Traumzelle REM, Remember or Remake' | Vienna Art Week 2026

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN / ENGLISH

The former phone booth becomes a dream cell: a place of retreat, poetic transformation and the collective power of imagination. While Anne Glassner lies in the cell – or sleeps standing up – a series of abstract visual pictures unfolds from her “dreaming head”. In the form of moving decalcomania, they appear as constantly changing projections on the walls of the cell: vibrant, surreal dream images that are as fleeting as thoughts.

Anne Glassner has been jotting down her dreams since 2017 and sees them as a personal, inner archive – as moving images of the unconscious. At the same time, the language artist Lisa Spalt takes up these fleeting dream worlds. In real time, “dream enhancements” emerge from the projections. These interventions offer alternative narratives, extensions and subtle utopias of the dreamed images. The dream cell is a sleeping area, projection surface as well as a poetic workshop. It invites the audience to enter a state between waking and dreaming – a space in which reality and imagination merge.

ART SPACE

Währinger Straße 59, Wien

christine.baumann@wuk.at

KUNSTZELLE

The KUNSTZELLE, a former telephone box from the 1960s, stands prominently in the courtyard of the WUK Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus and has been a venue for artistic installations and interventions since 2006. The program is curated by initiator Christine Baumann together with Pablo Chiereghin. The KUNSTZELLE offers artists a pivotal point from which to address their work to a broad audience of visitors and passers-by and has been explored anew again and again for almost 20 years. In addition to artists with longer professional experience, students from the TransArts / die Angewandte class show selected works every three years.