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sudhaus – art with salt and water

Open House

03/11/24Sunday, 14:00 - 18:00Sudhaus Bad IschlSalinenplatz 1, 4820 Bad Ischl
Free entry
Schools
Barrier-free
sudhaus
© Wolfgang Stadler

Description

We invite visitors to take home salt from Motoi Yamamoto's salt labyrinth or salt stones from Norbert Hinterberger's sea of salt. Whether the salt is taken home as a souvenir, the salt stone is used to help wild animals or the entrance to the house is cleared of ice is up to you. For Motoi Yamamoto, it is a matter close to his heart that everyone has the opportunity to take a piece of the artwork home with them to return the salt to the earth.

It was once called “white gold”: salt is a crucial element for the entire Salzkammergut region; even today it remains an important trade good, which leads some to prosperity and a few to richness.

Water and wood are both critical factors; without them, the extraction of salt would not be possible. – Salt and water are also both of critical importance for our bodies. Our organism is to 65 % made up of water and requires a daily ration of at least five grams of salt. – After all: salt and water are actually adversaries, which mutually devour each other and dissolve each other and are cursed to exist symbiotically until they are perhaps separated once again in a brew house.

“sudhaus – art with salt and water” is the central art exhibition of the European Capital of Culture. With the international and interregional participation of renowned artists, a spectrum of topics that is as broad as possible will be presented, which is introduced by documents from the history of the region. With a wide variety of facets and points of entry, the topics of salt and water will be presented in the form of objects, sculptures, installations, films, photography and sound works.

A part of the exhibit will make reference to the conference Open Water Dialogues, which concerns itself with urgent problems such as disappearing glaciers and the increasing scarcity of water around the world.

Contributors

Hicham Berrada (Paris), Christine Biehler (Hanau), Marion Eichmann (Berlin), Caterina Gobbi (Courmayeur/Berlin), Norbert W. Hinterberger (Berlin), Anouk Kruithof (Brussels), Sigalit Landau (Tel Aviv), Radenko Milak (Banja Luka), Wolfgang Müllegger & Georg Holzmann (Obertraun), Lucy+Jorge Orta (Paris), Kati Roover (Helsinki), Michael Sailstorfer (Berlin), Eva Schlegel (Vienna), Nicole Six & Paul Petritsch (Vienna), Simon Starling (Glasgow/Copenhagen), Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir (Reykjavik), Motoi Yamamoto (Kanazawa), Wenting Zhu (Shanghai/NY) (artists)

Gottfried Hattinger (curator)
Elfi Sonnberger (production management)
Julia Schwarz (project assistance)

With support from: Upper Austrian Chamber of Labour, EU Japan Fest

Dogs and other pets are not allowed in the exhibition.

Event info

Where
Sudhaus Bad Ischl
Salinenplatz 1, 4820 Bad Ischl
Languages
DEUTSCH, ENGLISCH