Inside & Outside
Light and Sound Installation "Brainwaves"
Heinrichstrasse 36
Linz artist Waltraut Cooper called her light installation “Geistesblitze (Chronik G.A.M.A.)/Brainwaves”, dated 1991. Neon lights embedded in the steps convey a part of the digitally coded university chronicle. These text messages take a critical view of the university’s National Socialist past. Connected to it, Werner Jauk’s sound installation converts the text of the chronicle into sound. Waltraut Cooper’s installation won the 1989 “Art and Construction” Prize endowed by the Federal State of Styria.
Korsage/Patchwork
Wall-Centre, Merangasse 70
A spaciously designed staircase serves both as a communicative element and a work of art: logos and pictograms cover the 8 metre-high metal cube by Manfred Erjautz and Michael Kienzer. This installation represents today’s information excess and subsequent deterioration of value.
Panta Rhei – Everything Flows
in front of the Main Building, Universitätsplatz 3
The sculpture on the lawn in front of the main building represents solidarity, sustainability and intercultural cooperation. It is made of Sölk marble and weighs 500 kilograms. Artist Klaus Schrefler (b. 1969), together with Thomas Siegl, donated the object to his “Alma Mater”.
Lighting Sculpture
Mozartgasse 14
The renovated rooms of the former Anna Childrens’ Hospital have been much enhanced by Wladimir Goltnik’s lighting sculpture which is suspended from the ceiling. It connects the entrance hall with the main stairwell. With its clearly visible surface structure, the freedom of the lighting sculpture’s form expresses the openness of the room, additionally emphasizing its height and dynamics.
TIME/ZEIT
University Library Extension, Universitätsplatz 3a
Heinz Gappmayr was one of the most distinguished Austrian representatives of Minimalism. Accordingly, his “ZEIT” (TIME) sign on the façade of the library building is broken down into shorthand-style parts, which correspond to the three sections of the library extension, and are joined together again.
Water Course between a Natural and a Cultural Stone
Corner of Heinrichstrasse/Geidorfguertel
This water course installation in the Heinrichstrasse presents itself as a dead-straight and narrow, 30-meter-long channel between two monumental stone elements. At the one end, water rises from a “natural stone”, runs through the frame of a side entrance which belonged to a house that once stood on the same spot, and finally flows into a “cultural stone” on the other end – a huge stone cube covered with numbers. This landscape installation by architect Janos Koppandy was erected in the mid-1990s and symbolizes tamed nature in an urban environment.
Colour and Lighting Concept "Temple of Venus"
in front of the Heizhaus, Universitätsstrasse 2-4
The floor of the semi-circular temple-like entrance area displays a mosaic by artist Jorrit Tornquist from 1988. Figurative details from Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” are mirrored in a central metal pipe.
