Elsewhere, art hangs on the wall and keeps quiet. Here, it races up the walls, floats above your bed and winds its way anticlockwise. At the Lasserhaus, art is not decoration but a permanent resident. It speaks in five contemporary voices and is forever in conversation with more than one hundred classical works spanning four centuries. Go on, join the conversation.
The present speaks
Five artists have written themselves into the house, each in a place of their own. Ingrid Hora lets a wall bar grow into the vaulted ceiling; Esther Stocker suspends a small universe beneath a vault. Peter Kogler turns the wine cellar into a psychedelic web of patterns, while Alexander Wierer transforms the stair railing into a musical box of time. Finally, Petra Polli writes ‘Expect the best’ in neon above the espresso machine.
And the past answers
In the Patron’s Hall, the little library on the ground floor, Rosina Thurner welcomes you with 17th-century gazes – painted by Stephan Kessler and hung among portraits of former owners of the house. A few steps further, Lesley de Vries’s landscapes merge into a single panorama. At the Lasserhaus, every era speaks to the next – and you are sitting right in the middle, marvelling.
