Anna Lerchbaumer: Open Tabs and Closed Locks

The works on display are located in public space. They are installed at Rudolf-von-Alt-Platz, diagonally across from the Palais des Beaux Arts building, as well as on one of the building’s window grills.

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A set of bistro chairs, the remains of a stolen bicycle, or a key safe hidden behind a rain gutter. Like everyday objects that are enclosed or chained, Anna Lerchbaumer’s works temporarily lay claim to urban space. Against the backdrop of the Palais des Beaux Arts as an artistic interface, they interlock with the existing infrastructure. Her objects are secured off, yet still exposed and vulnerable to their surroundings. As site-specific, encrypted signs, they examine forms of inclusion and exclusion in the post-digital public sphere. Access failed. Caps Lock enabled? H-E-R-E, at the fenced-off Rudolf-von-Alt-Platz and the barred windows of the building at Löwengasse 47A, Anna Lerchbaumer’s sculptures enter into a dialogue with the history of expropriation and artistic reappropriation of the Palais des Beaux Arts Wien.