Oberes Belvedere

The Sonnenschein Rhapsodies

KUNST HAUS WIEN Außenansicht © KUNST HAUS WIEN / W. Simlinger

by Böhler & Orendt

23 March - 29 May 2023

A multimedia installation about the vision of a paradisiacal world from the perspective of plants.

Do trees dream? What would they tell us humans if we could communicate? The multimedia installation "The Sonnenschein Rhapsodies" by the artist duo Böhler & Orendt shows a vision of a paradisiacal world from the perspective of plants. Animated, painterly and sculptural elements meet a polyphonic sound level. Visitors are immersed in a fantastic scene that focuses on the life of trees and their importance for the global ecosystem.

In the collective consciousness, sunshine still stands for joyful life - no summer without warming rays of sunshine, no life on earth without sun-energised photosynthesis. But the current climate crisis is drastically changing the picture: Droughts increasingly threaten the environment and habitat.

Böhler & Orendt meet this challenge with a good dose of irony and let trees speak. Seven "tree cyborgs" ponder summer rain, fresh groundwater and the gentle touch of a squirrel. The work, developed especially for Kunst Haus Wien, combines the existing architecture with cinematic animation, painting, sculpture, text and song to create a multimedia chamber play. In a forest of oversized stylised leaves, beings with tree trunk bodies and screen faces lie on yellow couches. Similar to ancient wandering singers, these "cyborg rhapsodes" communicate with their audience by declaiming and singing. At some points, their voices condense into a chorus that reverberates in the visitors' ears.

Venue

Kunst Haus Wien Museum Hundertwasser

Untere Weißgerberstraße 13
1030 Wien

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Current Dates

  • Sat. 01 Apr 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
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