22. June 2023 Viennbase19 gets an art facade

The promotion of art and culture has a long tradition at Viennbase19. This can be seen, among other things, in the numerous artistically designed walls in the building as well as the striking green entrance portal, which resembles a dragon. Now Viennabase is providing a facade for the Kaiserschild Walls of Vision project of the Kaiserschild Foundation. As part of the project, paintings from the foundation's art collection are reinterpreted by street artists in a new and contemporary way. A classic painting was chosen for Viennabase that couldn't be more fitting, as it is reminiscent of the colourful life in a student dormitory. The artists Linda Steiner and Perkup are working together on one wall for the first time.

The source work for the nine-interpretation is "Bauernschenke" by the Dutch master David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690), the most important representative of the Flemish peasant genre. Typical settings of this genre are barns and taverns. Unlike other artists of the time, however, Teniers refrained from caricaturing overdrawings of the depicted peasants.

In addition, David Teniers the Younger was active as curator of the collection of paintings assembled during the governorship of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in the Spanish Netherlands. This collection later came to Vienna and today forms the basis of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Das Gemälde „Bauernschenke“ ist Teil der Kunstsammlung der Kaiserschild-Stiftung, befindet sich in der Alten Galerie in Schloss Eggenberg und wird in der Ausstellung „Zwischen Tanz und Tod – Episoden der Frühen Neuzeit“ gezeigt.

Linda Steiner and Perkup will interpret Teniers' "Bauernschenke" in a new and contemporary way as a mural, combining elements of Teniers' style with the styles of the two street artists. They will also be inspired by the wall on which the artwork will be created. The side facade of the Viennabase building in the 19th district is characterised by a modern and unusual structure.

Linda Steiner wurde in Lienz in Osttirol geboren, sie lebt und arbeitet in Wien. Dort besuchte sie die Graphische für 2 Jahre und bekam eine Grundausbildung in Design, Malerei und Grafik. Danach schloss sie sich dem Gruppenatelier „Studio Walls“ an. Der dortige Austausch mit internationalen Künstler*innen hat Steiner und ihre Arbeit sehr geprägt. 2018 bemalte sie mit ihrem Kollektiv „Rip Off Crew“ ihre erste große Fassade. Linda Steiners Werke sind vor allem durch Figuren und Körper in allen Größen, Farben und Formen geprägt. Oft stehen übergroß wirkende Frauen im Mittelpunkt, beanspruchen die Aufmerksamkeit der Betrachtenden und weisen auf Themen wie Feminismus, Rassismus und Klassizismus hin. 

Paul Riedmüller aka Perkup, comes from Graz, lives and works in Vienna. He studied at the University of Applied Arts and deals, among other things, with the history of representation, collages from found analogue or digital material and creates new combinations through his playful approach. Through Perkup's dense and humorous approach, as well as his way of balancing between the facets of different media and their boundaries, one can recognise the familiar in an unfamiliar way.

The two artists* will work on the facade design at Gymnasiumstraße 85, 1190 Vienna between 26 June and 2 July.

The project is being realised in cooperation with Calle Libre.

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