FUTURAMA°LAB: Casa [Senza] Alberi — Otto Wagner Areal, opens June 10
- The file
- The practical details Claire checked before this went into the index.
- When
- 10 June 2026 – 31 July 2026
- Where
- Pavillon 21, Otto-Wagner-Areal, Baumgartner Höhe 1, 1140 Wien — the 14th
- Price
- Free
- Outdoor
- Installation art
- Architecture
- Reused materials
- Free entry
- 14th district
Casa [Senza] Alberi — A Treehouse with[out] Trees, A Bird's Nest with[out] Birds — is a collaboration between Rainer Prohaska, FUTURAMA°LAB, and Kollektiv Kaorle. The installation occupies the park around Pavillon 21, transforming the green space into a new meeting point at the edge of the city and the Wienerwald.
The structures are built from reused materials: fantastical forms that sit between treehouse, bird's nest, and architectural sculpture. They're meant to be walked through and climbed on — not observed from a distance. The work draws inspiration from the building logic of nature and the improvised systems of everyday life, exploring questions of communal living, building, and how we claim and shape the spaces we inhabit.
The Otto Wagner Areal
The setting matters. The areal is a former psychiatric hospital designed by Otto Wagner in 1907 — one of Vienna's most extraordinary complexes. A sprawl of pavilions and gardens in the 14th district, it feels apart from the city's rhythm. The park itself has a particular quality: green, slow, a little removed. It's the right place for a work about inhabiting space differently.
Why Now
The questions the installation asks — how we live together, how we build, how we appropriate space — feel urgent as Vienna changes. This is not a finished artwork to contemplate. It's a structure to move through and think inside.
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