Peter Kogler has produced a series of works related to the Kunsthaus, playing on its iconic organic shape, history, programme and dynamic form. A densely packed structure of Internet-sourced image fragments, events and places is layered in collages of quasi continuous loops, forming strands of developments and events as a network of images whose media, content and form keep growing.
Mounted on metal and positioned in the stairwell leading to Camera Austria, the collages embody an age where the flood of images before us is endlessly expanding, with its influences from film, research and everyday occurrences that now make a uniform reading of history impossible. Equipped with the tools of modernism and a post-media scepticism that recognises the digital image as an independent experience, Kogler uses tangible components to assemble world views: parallel time continua actuate intrinsic ambiguities.
The collages strictly follow the grid of the picture. Fitting in with one another, and in formal analogies, distinct universes are created of infinitely growing image generatives. Characteristic associations become a whole, also connecting the Kunsthaus as an institution, as an organic form and as an incubator of art with diverse visual references in terms of both form and content. It is no accident that the images are reminiscent of brain structures and thought movements. They challenge us to observe ourselves thinking—on the ground and in the image.
