I have been focussing on artistic interventions in sacral spaces for decades. My work has already been appreciated by thousands of visitors in numerous churches across the German-speaking world: in the Collegiate (University) Church in Salzburg (2010) the famous baroque church by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach in the heart of the festival city as well as in the Saint Stephens` Cathedral in Vienna (2014) one of the most important Gothic cathedrals in Europe or in the Culture Capital Graz (2003)
To create my art installations I use a multitude of finest white silken threads as fine as a hair, which depending upon how the light oscillates between the visible and the invisible, always alternating between presence and absence and only becoming really perceptible when the sun is being reflected. This will often occur for only short moments, in a transition from an invisible to a visible presence.
Each one of the innumerable very fine white threads appears process-oriented, in a continual dialogue with the sunlight. An ever-changing process, which cannot be controlled. When each one of the many threads is lighting up, the innermost space becomes illuminated.
"I see form not as an ultimate boundary but as a process, as the visible manifestation of traces of movement, transgressing space and material. The form still indicates the progressive process of its development. Thread and space are not in opposition, but they interpenetrate and integrate one another: Thread intervention and space are not two contradictory poles / do not form a contradictory polarity / but rather a continuum of two equally interwoven movements of light, which occur in a transition from the one to the other and which have to perform a continuous metamorphosis"
The uncountable threads do not form an available object with a fixed identity, with defined limits, but first at all an open translucent transparent space, which can be best experienced as a place of contemplation / open translucent transparent spaces that have no limit themselves and thus create a moment of infinity within the boundaries of space.
The substance of my artwork is merely a touch, almost unnoticeable and virtually absent for the perception. One can almost neglect the physical mass. It changes into space, or rather it defines the space. So we could say, that my installations are primarily composed of intermediate spaces.
I develop every art intervention specially from the very beginning in a process of continual dialogue with the interior and the incidence of the sunlight, moving in it. The idea, form and creative process are inseparably combined with the authenticity of the specific space. So, each one of them is unique and cannot be transferred to any other place.