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VORBRENNER is a contemporary art platform that promotes process-oriented work across all disciplines and genres. It offers short-term opportunities for collaboration for both collectives and individual artists in search of new insights and contemporary forms of expression that engage with an interdisziplinary concept of art and science. The focus is on a movement that is curious, experimental, researching, and developing, that welcomes the unfinished, the paradoxical, and the fragmentary. For exploratory trials of such nature, VORBRENNER provides the BRUX premises along with infrastructure and financial resources.

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In Absence of Stone

Sebastian Koeck, Luīze Nežberte, Marlene Posch
01.-14.09.2025
Dokumentation
BRUX / Freies Theater Innsbruck

It has been half a millennium since the Tyrolean mining industry had its heyday. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, it gained a reputation that extended far beyond its borders, promising limitless wealth. Today, all that remains are forgotten tunnels, looted caves, and abandoned shafts—empty spaces hidden within the mountainous landscapes surrounding Innsbruck. One must know where to look to find these so-called Knappenlöcher (abandoned mining tunnels). Only a handful of these sites are widely known. While some have been chronicled as legends, most exist only in the memories of past generations. Their vague locations are shrouded in mystery—as if revealing them would mean losing the hidden treasures intended only for those in the know.
Though the gold has long vanished, the legends remain.

Sebastian Koeck

(*1990 Innsbruck / AT), He lives and works in Vienna / AT.
He studied Transmedia Art as well as Sculpture from 2015 to 2021 with Brigitte Kowanz (VIE), Hans Schabus (VIE), and Michael Stevenson (NUE).

2024
Giddy Flames, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo
bmkoes Studio in Seoul
2023
Cave Wars (Solo), Ve.Sch, Wien
2022
Keyring Shuffle (Duo), Spouse, Wien
Handover, GUIMARÃES with Laurenz, Wien
2021
Teufel, Parallel Vienna, Wien
Haus Wien, Oststation, Wien
Ladder To A Poem, Kunstverein Klagenfurt
Upward, behind the onstreaming it mooned, KRINZINGER SCHOTTENFELD, Wien
2020
Three Rooms (Solo in collaboration with Juan Vera), Laurenz, Wien
GORETEXIAN (Solo), Platform 6020, Innsbruck
The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies), Fonda, Leipzig

Luīze Nežberte

(*1998 Riga / LV), lives and works in Vienna / AT.
Since 2020, she has been studying Sculpture and Space with Hans Schabus (VIE). In 2021, she participated in the Summer Academy Salzburg with Cäcilia Brown.

2024
Sunpoles, Kim? Contemporary art Center, Riga
A SIMULTANEITY OF STORIES-SO-FAR, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna
2023
Clump Spirit (Solo), 427 gallery, Riga
2022
TIME, Spouse, Wien
Around the horizon, corners implode, AG gallery, Riga
2021
Under arched ceiling, Universitätsgalerie Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna
CHAMBRE D’AMI·XES, Laurenz, Wien
In conversation with places, Quellenstrasse 2A, curated by Fanny Hauser, Vienna
inframince infra-mince infra mince, Heiligenkreuzerhof, curated by Franz Thalmair, Vienna

Marlene Posch

(*1994 Wien / AT), lives and works in Vienna / AT.
She studied Transmedia Art as well as Sculpture from 2017 to 2023 with Brigitte Kowanz, Jakob Lena Knebl, and Hans Schabus (VIE).

2024
PASSAGE, Deichtorhallen Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg
A SIMULTANEITY OF STORIES-SO-FAR, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna
2023
i look up, i look down from my human height, Kunstraum SUPER, Vienna
Vienna Seduction, SPOILER, Berlin
2022
cmd + G, Georg Kargl Permanent, Wien
head for the bright sun, PARALLEL VIENNA
Soft Machine, Phileas, Wien
2021
CHAMBRE D’AMI·XES, Laurenz, Wien
Revolving Doors, Aware Festival, Berlin
2020
Overstrained, KS Room, Riegersburg

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