Haus-Rucker-Co
Objekte, Konzepte, Bauten 1967–1992

Kunsthalle Wien's first major exhibition was dedicated to the work of the Austrian artist-architect group Haus-Rucker-Co. In their early years in Vienna and New York, Haus-Rucker-Co experimented with science fiction-like pneumatic architectures, including capsules, globes and residential balloons intended to suggest mobile living and survival in an industrially polluted environment as well as humanity's departure into space. Later, in the course of the 1980s, the group devoted itself to a plain, functional concept of everyday buildings for everyday culture that ‘aims to be interesting without being spectacular’. With all objects, models and drawings stored in nine two-storey industrial halls as a material depot, Kunsthalle Wien presented the approximately 25 years of work by a group that later became the architectural studio Ortner & Ortner, responsible for the architectural planning of the MuseumsQuartier.