Performance during the exhibition Planetary Transitions at Kunsthaus Potsdam (2025), curated by HAAU and GEO, in collaboration with artists Kristina Jaggard, Michael Tsypin, and Ben Hewett. Photo credit: Constanze Flamme.
A GEO and HAAU collaboration, led by the 2025 Planetary Transitions Artists in Residence Sam Spurr, Eduardo Kairuz, and Angela Lee Invited guest: Daniel Barber, Professor of Architecture at the Technical University of Eindhoven
Otto Wagner (1841–1918) is one of the internationally most influential figures of early modern architecture. Many of his buildings – for instance, the Vienna City Railway, the Postal Savings Bank and the Church at Steinhof – are now considered key works of twentieth-century architecture because they shed their historical stylistic trappings and speak instead a language appropriate to “modern life”, based on purpose, materials, and construction.