stefan a. schumer architects

between the worlds

women’s museum hittisau

between the worlds _ born 1915–1935

women tell their stories

a photo and sound project by nurith wagner-strauss

november 13, 2022 – june 18, 2023

what makes a “rich” life? twenty-three women share their life stories. they were born between 1915 and 1935 and were young girls or children during the second world war. they come from diverse social backgrounds—some from urban, others from rural environments. some are still physically and mentally fit, while others are frail or living with dementia. photographer nurith wagner-strauss captures in her large-format portraits what remains visible of a person’s individuality in the final stage of life. she explores where and how the boundaries between reality and imagination, between time, the here and now, and the long past begin to blur.

exhibition design: stefan s. schumer architects

https://www.frauenmuseum.at/zwischen-den-welten

https://www.nurithwagnerstrauss.com/n-e-w-s-e-x-h-i-b-i-t-i-o-n-s/

monumental lightness

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the atomos project

monumental lightness

september 2022

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Stefan A. Schumer, with his floating archaic elements, chasms, broken stone, landscapes, aerial images, and urban regions, is not a destroyer of worlds: he pushes back vehemently against the relevance of reigning interests’ irrelevance, and he is conscious of how there exists no point of return.

Climate change, expanding deserts, parched harvests, forests aglow with flames, empty riverbeds, increasingly widespread poverty, pandemics, and war in Europe.... Conditions have deteriorated, have become perilous. Combining unreserved acknowledgement of this fact with an imperturbable creative drive is the true challenge.

„Atomos“ is, in any case, an unambiguous avowal that the design of living environments be kept lively and made visible from far off. It is only natural that this would seem surprising precisely in the midst of a society-wide phase of increasing uncertainty and anxiety in which the loss of our future is the ultimate fear.

Peter Noever, 2022

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Visionary Stefan A. Schumer is a builder of bridges. His unbridled spirit is determined to exhaust all possibilities and to resist. The ultimate goal of his important work with students at the Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo is to achieve a better future and, in the vein of Frederick Kiesler’s “Vision Follows Reality”, to follow the process of nation building this country aspires to embrace!

Valentin Inzko, 2022

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participients:

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valentin inzko former high representative for bosnia and herzegovina

peter noever curator at large; director em., mak vienna_los angeles

dubravka pozderac-lejlić dean, academy of fine arts sarajevo university of sarajevo, bih

rifat škrijelj rector, university of sarajevo, bih

elisabeth von samsonow philosopher, artist, academy of fine arts vienna

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exhibition dates
 5th–30th september 2022
, gallery of the academy of fine arts sarajevo