Loch (Hole)

The existence of holes is an undisputed fact. However, mankind is still struggling with the definition of the hole itself. We all recognise holes as shapes defined by the presence of their surroundings. We recognise holes without actually seeing them. They are empty, they are immaterial. The German writer Kurt Tucholsky's definition sums it up. In architecture and art, but also in language and music, the hole is a marker where information is bundled. The hole in a doughnut, for example, defines it as such. The part of the doughnut that is removed from the dough, leaving a hole, is ultimately not the hole. The relationship between the cut-out and the doughnut itself, between the positive and the negative, comes closest to defining the hole.

In this year's three-dimensional design course we focus on designing where something is not. Behind every hole there is always a space. The hole frames it, gives us insight and directs our perception towards it. The hole selects and thus concentrates impressions on that place.
This year we will make holes, enter them and measure them, we will fill them and geometrise, abstract and translate them, and finally we will take a collective look at what we define in all its variety and diversity as the place where something is not: the hole.

 

Christian Kern

Efstathia Eleni Baseta

Christoph Meier

Marie Reichel

Lukas Thaler

Gregor Titze

Martina Kögl

Jakob Neulinger

Christoph Bruckner

Markus Bauer

Lazar Lyutakov

Cosma Grosser

Nora Fröhlich

Monika Georgieva

Elisabeth Kofler