The Chairman
Stories of Common Objects and Regional Contexts
Extended Version

Friday, March 31 – Saturday, June 11, 2023
Landesgalerie Burgenland, Eisenstadt

Supported by
Bundeskanzleramt Österreich – Sektion II Kunst
Burgenland Kultur
Freistadt Eisenstadt
apm Holding
Braun Lockenhaus
Colourfish Real Estate
Freispiel GmbH
H&S Zauntechnik GmbH
Merkur Treuhand
Stekovics GmbH
Swisspearl Österreich GmbH
Viabizzuno progettiamolaluce
VI-Engineers Bauträger GmbH
VOLA Vertriebs GmbH
Vorwerk Flooring

CIS – Creative Industries Styria


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The architect and designer Martin Mostböck designs furniture, houses, interiors, objects of everyday life and regularly blurs the boundaries between the different disciplines. As part of the exhibition “The Chairman” within the Landesgalerie Burgenland in Eisenstadt Mostböck presents designs encompassing several decades of his work. These include chairs, pieces of furniture, houses and interiors which straddle the line between being pieces of art and mass-produced objects. The exhibition also presents his award-wining museum pieces, including objects from the collections of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Design Museum Holon in Tel Aviv or the MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art in Vienna. Visitors of the exhibition can come face to face with products made in small-scale series, unique pieces, manufactured only in limited numbers and products of which almost 60.000 were produced. This also makes it possible to trace the connections between experiment, craftsmanship, industry and sustainable design, which usually seem worlds apart. Mostböck combines experience, aesthetic and the contemporary, without ignoring the creative heritage of several stiles. His approach is calm, true-to-life and nevertheless focused on the project, regardless whether it is the design of a champagne cooler made from marble or the exterior of a building or the enviroment created for an interior. Mostböck views, thinks and translates. The exhibition showcases the connections between different areas and how they affect the design process. Mostböck endeavors and succeeds in making these invisible connections visible.

The exhibition is accompanied by the launch of the new book AID Zwei. ArchitectureInteriorsDesignZwei (Verlag Anton Pustet) with essays by Michael Hausenblas, Matthias Boeckl, Gudrun Hausegger, Zachary Edelson and Lisbeth Legat.