Diffuser, scent created by algorithmic perfumery on behalf of the artist: Isoamy acetate, Isobutyl acetate, Benzyl acetate, Jasmolactone, Dipropylene Glycol (DPG)

QR code sticker, AR/3D object, NFT
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The predominant banana variety Cavendish has its roots in a greenhouse in England around 1830, when exotic fruits and plants were brought back from travels as a status symbol. This one banana type represents almost all bananas sold today internationally - as genetic clones of this one original plant. The reproduction of real bananas is now continued and elevated to the absurd in this artwork: Multiplication, abstraction, and transformation allow for an oscillation between augmented reality snippets and the olfactory experience, beyond the concrete object itself.

»Harvest« and »Trace« are a trading pair that enter into a dialogue as an echo in the exhibition. In the entrance area of the exhibition, the work »Trace« unfolds the scent of a banana, which is sustainable and discreet, leaving behind a memory. The work »Harvest«, a virtual banana, can be »harvested« digitally during the exhibition as an NFT - a commentary on the speculative art market in times of digital value creation.

The work "Harvest," a virtual banana, can be "harvested" digitally during the exhibition as an NFT - a commentary on the speculative art market in times of digital value creation.

The works manifest themselves as performative ready-mades for the duration of the exhibition and can thus be collected as virtual souvenirs. However, the scent of banana can only be experienced when travelling to Bregenz.

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Géraldine Honauer (*1986 in Aarau, CH) lives as digital nomad
www.geraldinehonauer.com
IG: @geraldinehonauer

2er-Postkartenset, Mateusz Dworczyk, 2€ ★ Schlüsselanhänger, Ramona Kortyka, 12€ ★ Elbsand, Malin Dorn, 6€ ★ Insel-Modell, Moritz Piehl, 5€ ★ NFT, Géraldine Honauer, 0.004 ETH ★ Sonnenbrillen, Jennifer Merlyn Scherler, 5€ ★ Seife, Juan Blanco, 5€ ★ Schlafmaske, Julia Dolipski, 8€ ★ Schlüsselbänder, Laura Leppert, 5€ ★ Handy Stern-Sticker, Letizia Aurora Calasso, 50ct ★ Postkarte Garzweiler, Laura Leppert, 2€

The collaborative work entitled »Transient Details« invites viewers to embark on a journey through the universe of cultural tourism. The installation consists of suitcases containing souvenirs. Is it the staging of a treasure trove of souvenirs, a suitcase exhibition, like Duchamp's Museum in a Box, or something else?
On the one hand, the small mementos reflect the general theme of the exhibition: souvenirs make a decisive contribution to the construction of a tourist image and the tourist location. In his text »Semiotics of Tourism«, Jonathan Culler defines souvenirs as markers: »A marker is any kind of information or representation that constitutes a sight as a sight: by giving information about it, representing it, making it recognizable, it marks something, present or absent, as a sight for tourists.« (Culler, Jonathan. Semiotics of Tourism, In: The American Journal of Semiotics, p.4).
However, the numerous objects in this collective installation are not vacation souvenirs like the ones found as mass products on the streets of Paris, London or Tokyo. They are self-made objects in small editions that reference the artists' works. The miniature exhibits carry the individual artistic perspective and come together to form a collection that marks the collective creative process of the group. By choosing the form of the souvenir, the artists turn the exhibition space into a touristic sight, they themselves become travellers and the Künstlerhaus turns into a stopover.
At the same time, however, the art institution of a cultural-touristic city like Bregenz is recognized and named as part of a touristic-economic value chain. The work unobtrusively raises questions about the roles and attitudes of the institution, the artists and the visitors. The work thus encourages us to view tourism not only as a physical journey, but also as an intellectual adventure in which items of remembrance become door openers for multi-layered narratives and interpretations.
The objects made for the installation can be purchased from the Künstlerhaus staff.

Installation: 14-part series of images (13.8 x 6.7 cm), video (6:17 min), stereo sound in collaboration with Felipe Yang (06:17 min).

Suggested, researched, screenshotted, saved, booked, photographed - the smartphone is always in our immediate vicinity, light and ready at hand. It acts as a digital interface, a 16:9 window to the world. As travellers, we like to use the camera to capture all the (un)familiar places that appear in front of us. The visit becomes a fact through the processes of capturing it. We stage an image for ourselves and for others.

But our behaviour and expectations are subtly shifting due to the flood of travel content on social media. Travel photos and videos shape our perception. How much attention do we pay to the meticulous travel documentation of others? And how do we influence future travellers through our posted images? A dialogue is created between attractive Tiktoks, Instagram photo dumps and our actual experiences, which raises the question of how reality can be perceived, interpreted and influenced.

The work is based on a dialogue between travel content in social networks and personal experiences during an eight-month stay in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The material is a combination of publicly accessible and private media, a mixture of images, sounds and films showing tourist sights and their surroundings.

Letizia Aurora Calasso (*2001 Bad Urach, DE) lives and studies in Kiel (DE)
IG: @letiziacalass

(1) 6-part series »Stranded-Inn«, digital print (30.5 x 22 cm), Edition 1/2;
(2) »Rest to Contemplate«, print on mesh banner (250 x 100 x 100 cm), gorilla tripod, plexiglass smartphone;
(3) »Currency/Currently affordable«, three embroidered towels and towel rail (dimensions variable);
(4) »work to rest to work«, soap, sticker and packaging (5 x 5 cm). br

The installation shows elements of a hotel room in combination with collages of cruise ships and photographs from my own travels. The various components of the installation represent the different levels of tension from consumption and luxury to deceleration and contemplation to tranquillity and catastrophe.

The starting point is Caspar David Friedrich's paintings, references to the Baltic Sea, the AIDA cruise ships and the Costa Concordia and disaster tourism. In it I explore the subjective projections of the traveller and the tourist, examining the romanticism of travel on the one hand and the possible consequences of a harmless trip on the other. After all, the real disaster on vacation is not the sinking ship, but the inequality between those who can rest and those who want to but cannot.

Juan Blanco (*1988, Bogotá) lives and works between Berlin (DE) and Bogotá (COL)
www.juanmblanco.com
IG: @juanm_blanco

Video (03:30 min, 4K, Stereo Sound)

The demand for lithium batteries has multiplied a thousandfold with the new European laws on e-mobility. The consequences of lithium extraction and colonial trade are dramatic for the fragile ecosystem and the local inhabitants.
In a place where life as we know it is scarcely possible, where a globally unique ecosystem functions, one of the lightest naturally occurring metals is extracted using millions of litres of water.These white landscapes are rich in stories and objects — of living and dead bodies — that can only be preserved and remembered within this system.
How much of local treasures does our global green future cost on the other side of the world?

Fernanda Braun Santos (*1997, Santiago de Chile, CL) lives and works in Hamburg and Berlin (DE).
fernandabraunsantos.com
IG: @fernandabraunsantos

Diptych: images (each 100 cm × 100 cm), UV print on textile banner, light box.

In the work "Temptation Island", found material from social media and stock photo platforms is woven into artificial places of longing that play with the promise of sensation and escapism. The scenery is framed by an interface in the style of a video game, which on the one hand shows the space of possibility, but also the limits of action and the associated predetermination of the protagonist's journey.
An analogy is drawn between generic video games, scripted reality and travel bucket lists, in which individual diversity and needs are often replaced by standardised narratives and values.

The work consists of two scenes that suggest the first and penultimate chapters of a narrative in the format of a reality TV drama. It begins with the discovery of a paradise that beckons with promising summer flirtations and exclusive leisure activities, and ends with the protagonist's expulsion from the island.
However, the dramatic event behind this remains hidden from the viewer and takes place outside the screen. The intervening events can only be hinted at via the interface of the scenery.

The Paradise judges:

Six came here, determined to test their trust
— Hope
And some have overcome barriers that now may be irreparable
— Disappointment
Now the experience is about to come to an end
— Secrets
And they all must face their actions — Truth

Moritz Piehl (*1992) Lives and works in Zurich (CH).
IG: @piehlmoritz

3-channel video installation (04:42 min, HD, 6"), flashers, souvenirs, fabric figures, mosquito spirals.

Three videos play in the intimate interior of the fishing tent, offering insights into fishing - from tranquil moments of peaceful observation to successful catches. During a trip to the popular vacation destination Thailand, I had several opportunities to feed fish. Where there are signs in Germany saying "Feeding fish prohibited", there are small signs advertising fish food in Thailand. Here, contemplative activity, tourist bustle, and the achievement-oriented pursuit of fishing converge on a fishing holiday.
Three stuffed toy fishes watch over the tent, surrounded by insect repellant spirals. These tame companions contrast with the exciting sport of fishing in the tent.
Based on a personal travelling experience, the work contrasts the different motivations that drive our journeys into nature. A constantly changing dynamic of human-nature interaction is revealed: on the one hand the playful and affectionate, on the other the pursuit for control and mastery..

Ramona Kortyka (*1991, Aachen, DE) lives and works in Kiel (DE)
www.ramonakortyka.com

Digital print on textile, 133 x 158 cm

Time off, summer retreats or holidays are privileges: Travelling and being able to afford leisure time buys you a special status compared to others. Space tourism exacerbates this phenomenon - it is reserved only for the super-rich. "The Moon Would Fix Me" shows social difference in tourist behaviour using the status symbol of people worth billions who flaunt their wealth through the new holiday destination: space.

The work is based on internet memes ⁽¹⁾ and various femme internet sub-communities that humorously take up the idea of nature as a romantic refuge and the expectation of travelling as a healing process. The collage combines romanticised images of outer space with text fragments and stages interstellar travel as a means of inner healing. In this scenario, "space bros" like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos become "sad girls" in search of a new form of emotionality through space tourism.

Jennifer Merlyn Scherler (*1996 in Oberdiessbach, CH) lives and works in Basel (CH)
IG: @jennifermerlyn,
www.jenniferscherler.com

_{(1) »don’t mean to sound like a sickly victorian woman riddled with consumption but i do feel like a little trip to the seaside would fix me«}

10-part series (35 x 28 cm), pigment print on fine art photo paper, UV-printed acrylic glass.

Significant parts of our society are almost permanently exposed to the omnipresence of digital devices. As a result, travelling is now also accompanied by various apps: Push notifications, traffic information, emails, boarding passes, news widgets, reception status or battery status. These app interfaces are inscribed into the memory of smartphones as screenshots. They are a snapshot of our navigation, a trace of our mobility and a fragment of our perception of the world. Too unimportant to be deleted, screenshots are archived in the camera roll on an equal footing with photographs. Passively inscribed and yet part of our memory.
Over the course of two years, the material for the ten-part picture series was collected during various business and leisure trips. On display are classic photographs: unagitated descriptions of places as a traveller's personal commentary. Places that are sometimes intertwined, but do not depict a linear sequence. In the foreground there are digital collages from private screenshot collections. An interface taken ad absurdum, overlaying the common representation of the image. Or is it the anticipated future perception of the world, as large technology companies are already trying to foresee with mixed reality products like Apple Vision Pro glasses?

Mateusz Dworczyk (*1994, Zabrze, PL). Lives and works in Kiel (DE) and Salzburg (AT).
http://fd8594.eu/
IG: @mateuszdworczyk

Audio installation: massage chair, rug, headphones, stereo audio (09:35 min)

In times of Google Street View, travel blogs and a general oversaturation with travel content all over social media, it has become more and more easy to make oneself familiar with a place without actually having to go there. After all, aren’t there more sustainable and even cheaper ways to achieve the self-developmental, character building experience travelling promises - through meditation practices for example? In fact, our brains provide a wide range of archival material when it comes to imagining places we haven’t been to yet. Reaching from actual memories over pop-cultural references and advertisements to postcards and family albums, our latent spaces are filled with potential travel destinations. Using sound, we can utilise our brain's ability to automatically come up with mental images connected to what we hear and therefore let ourselves be taken on an unforgettable journey through our very own imaginative landscapes - travel is out, mental trips are in!

Julia Dolipski (*1994 in Speyer, DE) lives and works in Bielefeld (DE)
IG: @jipski_d

Video (18:30 min, UHD, 4:3, Stereo Sound)

This tick bite is from a forest near Munich, this bedbug bite from Barcelona, this scar is from a jellyfish I touched near Ibiza, and my foot got infected after touching a hot exhaust pipe in Bangkok.

Figure, Ground is a new weird grand tour around mass tourism, iconoclasm and the climate class divide. The film focuses on places in Europe that were locations of catastrophes in the past - and are tourist magnets today, partly because of these disasters. Here, figure and ground are reversed - the landscape, the classical mute „background“, leaps forward into the centre of the picture. The video asks how we can challenge our assumptions of protagonist and background, closeness and distance, center and periphery – and the movements in between.
Will climate change manifest itself as a series of disasters, viewed through phones, with footage that gets closer and closer until you‘re the one filming it?

With Kim Bode, Karla Krey, Georg Paul, Johanna K Michel, Viktor Petrov, Florian Purschke, Mika Schwarz, I-Chieh Tsai, Asís Ybarra

Laura Leppert (*1993) lives and works in Berlin and Munich.
lauraleppert.de
IG: @laura__leppert

3-Channel-Videoinstallation (15:00 min loop, 4K, 65", 55”, 49”), Wooden brackets

Islands are places of fantasy. Their geographical remoteness makes them ideal settings for theoretical experiments and mysterious tales. They are both places of longing and places of fear. The work is situated in a field of tension between utopia and dystopia.
Images found online form the basis of the animated digital collage: satellite images of real islands are combined to create a fictional map, which is supplemented by further elements. These refer to old nautical charts and children's atlases, which give the places a context through illustration. The work sometimes tells dark stories in humorous narratives and takes visitors on a flight over the island landscapes.
The title "Way down below the ocean, where I wanna be" (Donovan, 1968) is taken from a famous song about the legendary Atlantis, which serves as a stage for the imagination of a perfect society. However, the myth of Atlantis is reversed here and placed in a contemporary context.

Malin Dorn (*1993, Kiel, DE) lives and works in Hamburg (DE)
IG: @dropthedeadcat

The work "Paris up close. Your acoustic travelling companion" offers a unique insight into the different worlds of the exhibiting artists. The short audio recordings are based on interviews conducted in advance and can be heard on the accompanying website.
Playing with the ubiquitous format of audio guides, which have become a staple in both modern tourism and cultural institutions, the project opens the possibility to experience the works acoustically.. Being guided by and listening to "Paris up close. Your acoustic travel companion" becomes an extension of perception, whereby the visitors go ona journey.

Laura Gonzalez (*1991, Madrid, ES), lives and works in Berlin (DE)