nathalie koger

Für das müde Material (For the tired material)

2012 | Performance | Object (1:10), 200 x 400 x 400 cm | wood, screws and artisans
Construction period: approx. 6 days | Produced by 21er Haus
Belvedere and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Texts: No More Time for Ability – Strategies, Breaks, Resistences

  • Exhibition view, finished object
  • Poster for Malmoe

    Family photo: Grandfather Alfons Koger with Nathalie Koger in Nussbach / Schwarzwald, early 1980s, showing a "flying beam" i.e., the preparation for a roof truss and the measurement of the material to be cut to size in the "dry".

Exhibition view
21er Haus
Belvedere, set-up
Exhibition view
21er Haus
Belvedere, set-up
Exhibition view
21er Haus
Belvedere, set-up
Exhibition view
21er Haus
Belvedere, set-up
Exhibition view
21er Haus
Belvedere, set-up
Exhibition view
21er Haus
Belvedere, set-up
Exhibition view
21er Haus
Belvedere, set-up
Exhibition view
21er Haus
Belvedere, set-up
Exhibition view
21er Haus
Belvedere, set-up
Exhibition view
21er Haus
Belvedere, set-up
 
 

  • Roof truss for 21er Haus / Belvedere, Vienna
    Realization 2012/2013 as part of the exhibition KEINE ZEIT (BUSY). Erschöpftes Selbst/ Entgrenztes (Exhausted Self / Unlimited Ability) Können, 21er Haus/ Belvedere, Vienna

    A roof truss is being designed for 21er (once 20er), complying with the statics of the existing building, and the structure of which results in a peculiar shaping of its own. The edifice of 21er Haus was designed as the Austrian Pavilion for Expo 58, 1958, and redesigned to serve as an exhibition site. It is of particular interest that the weight of the building is suspended on four main columns. The model of the design is a tent roof, with both, the sculptural qualities of the object and the construction, being rendered arbitrary. This serves the idea to inscribe the object, as a result of a handcraft and as sign of a function, into classical modernity, which was characterized by industrial materials.

    Credits:

    Master carpenter Franz Ritzer and his team
    were in charge of construction. 3D-model
    by Cora Kaindl

    Produced by 21er Haus / Belvedere and
    Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

     

  • BUSY. Exhausted self / Unlimited ability
    "Industrial society, based on discipline and subordination, has been replaced by information capitalism, characterized by flexibility and self-control, which gives increasing importance to immaterial and creative work. (…) The exhibition does not simply take note of these tendencies, but reacts to the resistance against them, and to movements such as Craftivism that attempt to again include excluded skills through a reevaluation of handicrafts and related forms of practice.” 25.3.2013  www.21erhaus.at