2025, Otto-Wagner-Areal, Vienna
PAVILIOLA - Platform for taking care
PAVILIOLA is a project for Otto-Wagner-Areal, which activates the garden of Pavilion 10.
A project funded by Public Art Vienna
Location: Otto-Wagner-Areal/ Pavilion 10, Vienna
Opening: Oct. 2, 2025
Installation: until Aug.31, 2026
PAVILIOLA was generously supported by PREFA in the frame of an artists residency (curated by Cajetan Gril) and by Biocraftlab.
Thanks to:
Cajetan Gril, Dr. Cornelius Grupp and the team of PREFA (Ben Schroffenauer, Jürgen Schön, Günter Bichelmaier), Nico Teuschler, Stefan Lozar and Franz Schumach; Cornelia Offergeld, Olga Wukounig und Uta Knittel (Public Art Vienna).
Team transparadiso:
Lukas Anzeletti, Hannah Mucha, Matthias Schatajew, Florencia Camara, Mira Prohaska.
The "blossom seat" was developed by industrial designer Alexander Allroggen (until May 2025) in collaboration with Nico Teuschler (Biocraftlab) and realised as an ongoing 1:1 research project for a large-format outdoor object using biodegradable PLA.
The ensemble of objects titled “Paviliola” quotes a historic garden pavilion from the Otto-Wagner-Areal, which was built in the early twentieth century. transparadiso deconstructed the original pavilion and reassembled the elements on altered scales. With individual arches, a platform suitable for diverse uses, and seat shells arranged like petals, they explore the idea of care as a common good accessible to everyone and create a place that invites people to linger.
transparadiso’s work on the grounds of the former psychiatric hospital reminds visitors of the vital role that social interaction and inclusion in the community play for patients’ recovery. At the time of its construction, the clinic was one of the most modern in Europe. During National Socialism, cruel euthanasia crimes took place there. Today, the area is undergoing a transformation process: After private residential construction plans were averted, a number of the pavilions are being used temporarily or for the longer term by cultural institutions.
For transparadiso, it is also a return to a site that they already discovered in 2023 during their city explorations in the Penzing district for "Water, Mask, Night".
The seat shells of the "blossom seat" were 3D-printed using a biodegradable PLA synthetic. The shape and dimensions of the individual petals make full use of what is technically possible in terms of production.
More information see here.