30 November 2007 – 7 January 2008

Christoph Lingg - Shut down - Industrial Ruins in Eastern Europe and the Far East

Abandoned mines, foundries and coking plants – rusty drilling derricks and deserted production halls – empty lockers – dead telephone lines – defunct gas taps: industrial ruins, shut down and left to decay. They radiate the belief in progress of times past; they speak to our sense of being and passing away.
Whether in Poland, Romania or former East Germany – or in Russia, China or Mongolia – all of these sites appear to have one thing in common: behind the physical presence of the ruins lie historical facts and stories that reflect the fate and identity of entire regions and their inhabitants. Three cameos, which serve as representatives of many others.

Walim or Wüstewaltersdorf in Lower Saxony. An old industrial region, famous for its linen and the uprisings of its weavers, who repeatedly went to the barricades to protest hunger and exploitation. The spread of mechanical looms in the 19th century ushered in a new era in Saxony. Factories sprang up, pompous in their dimensions and ambitious in their technology. And today, not so many years after the fall of the Iron Curtain' Empty walls that are slowly collapsing. A man walks along the walls, collecting bricks in a plastic sack. Nothing goes to waste.

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Masterpieces of the Viennese Secessionist Movement, the Viennese Modernist Movement and the Austrian Expressionist Movement

The LEOPOLD COLLECTION is one of the most important collections of modern Austrian art in the world. The more than 5,000 exhibits collected by Rudolf and Elisabeth Leopold over five decades were consolidated in 1994 with the assistance of the Republic of Austria and the National Bank of Austria into the LEOPOLD MUSEUM PRIVATE FOUNDATION.
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