Indoor and outdoor installations
Light and sound installation "Flashes of inspiration"
Heinrichstraße 36
"Geistesblitze (Chronik G.A.M.A.)", dated 1991, is the name of the light performance by Waltraut Cooper from Linz. Neon tubes embedded in the steps transport a section of the digitally coded university chronicle. This text takes a critical stance on the university's years during the regime of the National Socialist Party. The text is translated acoustically in the connected sound installation by musicologist Werner Jauk. Waltraut Cooper won the 1989 "Kunst und Bau" competition of the Province of Styria for the installation.
Corsage/patchwork
Wall Center, Merangasse 70
The generously proportioned stairwell is both a communicative element and a work of art: logos and pictograms cover the eight-meter-high metal cube erected there by Manfred Erjautz and Michael Kienzer. The installation from 1994 shows the oversupply of information, whereby its value fades into the background.
Light sculpture
Mozartgasse 14
A "free-floating light sculpture" by Wladimir Goltnik has dominated the monumental four-pillar staircase since the renovation. The steel construction connects the entrance and staircase. The freedom of form of the light sculpture with its exposed surface structure represents the openness of the space. Its height and power are thus additionally emphasized.
Watercourse: From natural stone to cultured stone
Heinrichstraße/corner of Geidorfgürtel
A 30-meter-long, narrow, dead-straight
watercourse flows along Heinrichstraße: The water springs from a "natural stone", flows through a side portal, which used to be the entrance to a house standing on this spot, and finally flows into a "cultural stone", a stone cube covered with numbers. This landscape installation by architect Janos Koppandy was erected in the mid-1990s and represents tamed nature in an urban environment.
Color and lighting concept "Temple of Venus"
Entrance to the Heizhaus, Universitätsstraße 2-4
The circular entrance area features a colorful floor mosaic by the artist Jorrit Tornquist from 1988. Figurative details based on the painting "The Birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli are reflected in a central metal tube.
Floor mosaic
Main building, staircase to the 2nd floor, Universitätsplatz 3
The mosaic at the entrance to the Institute of Archaeology comes from Flavia Solva (2nd century AD). Excavated by Friedrich Pichler in 1877, it was donated to the university by Emperor Franz Josef I in 1883.