Imaginary Landscapes

Imaginary Landscapes deals with formal and structural orders as well as the relationship between art, function, site specificity and global movement.

In modernism, minerals were a source of inspiration for geometric forms, ornaments and architecture.
I am fascinated by minerals, on the one hand in terms of questions of abstraction and, on the other hand, in terms of their materiality and forms, which were shaped by specific circumstances in specific places.
The conditions of the world surrounding them, shaped the emergence and appearance of their form and composition. I borrowed the minerals from the Collection of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, which was formed through several expeditions. The minerals have, so to speak, ‘migrated’ to the museum and come together in a new formation as a collection. My work is a specific selection that serves as a starting point for me to design structures that have their own transforming order and translate into other materialities.
The form of the minerals reflects structures of order,
whose analogy to the orders of archives, textile forms and image structures is of particular interest to me.