Laundry or art space? The style fracture as a concept – diepresse.com
The following applies to artists Niclas Schöler in Vienna Währing: « If nothing fits together, everything fits ». Prerequisite: the furniture tells a story.
Niclas Schöler’s apartment is located in a classic Viennese turn of the century, just a few steps from the carriage market. The artist lives here on around 135 square meters in an old building surface with high rooms, artistic equipment and a special atmosphere between the living space and studio, between everyday life and the exhibition.
« I actually came here about a flat share. I stayed because of the apartment. » What was once a shared apartment of painting teams became a personal retreat for Schöler.
Originals from 120 years
He has lived here since 2016 – surrounded by original furniture from the Wilhelminian era, a growing collection of works of art of friendly artists.
« /> Window and furniture in Art Nouveau. barber
The floor plan is typical of a Viennese interest house around 1900: the three large, representative rooms to the street, back kitchen, bedroom, bathroom to the courtyard. The largely original condition is particularly noteworthy-from the equipment in the style of historicism to Art Nouveau corridor. Instead of preserving these guidelines in a museum, Schöler has further developed her with an eclectic style: style breaks became a concept.
« The architect Hermann Czech, for whom I work, once told me: » Start with the most as possible furniture – then everything fits together. ‘ »
Niclas Schöler
artist
« The architect Hermann Czech, for whom I work, once told me: Start with the opposite furniture as possible – then everything fits together. »
Throughout room as a temporary exhibition room
Antiques on simple shelves, design classics meet flea market finds. Everything can exist next to each other – as long as it tells a story. Many pieces come from friends, have been exchanged or have just stayed over the years. The rooms radiate calm without tipping into sterile. Rather, they look like a living archive.
« /> The temporary exhibition space – currently laundry. barber
In the heart of the apartment is the passage room – once a rather neglected connecting room, today a temporary art space with changing exhibitions, performances and installations. So also with the current « Independent Space Index » (see box).
A room for experiments: « We called the Pilot project – like pilot sequences on TV. It’s about trying it out, but please without pressure. » Up to three projects take place there every year. During an exhibition, Schöler literally lives with art – every time he enters the living room, he passes the works.
Enliven instead of shaping
Between the exhibitions, the room serves pragmatically as a place for drying or ironing. This is also part of the concept: art as part of everyday life, not detached from him. And shows how inspiring it can be not to shape living space, but to enliven it.
