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- 2011
- video, sketches, digital drawings, cardboard-model, various sizes
For the 2011 reopening of Vienna’s former 21er Haus (House 21) as Belvedere 21, Marcus Geiger ironically ran an outsized ribbon across the building—which had originally been designed by Karl Schwanzer as the Austrian pavilion for Expo 58 in Brussels. IN the run-up to its reopening, architect Adolf Krischanitz had worked for two years to renovate and adapt the dilapidated structure, which had been close in 2001 after having served as one of the exhibition spaces of the Museum of Modern Art (mumok). Geiger’s overall work for this occasion also included sketches, drawings, a maquette, and a video, hinting at the grand gesture of packing and unpacking an important item as well as the typical inaugural act of cutting a red ribbon to open a new work of architecture. W.S.