Seth Weiner’s work employs a wide range of media in which he explores the gaps between architectural fiction and social convention to create both actual and imagined spatial environments. As the Artistic Director of Palais des Beaux Arts Wien, a nonprofit that serves as a mobile place of remembrance and projection for what was lost during National Socialism, Weiner’s work functions as an ongoing act of reclamation and a way to explore what his Jewish identity means in contemporary Austria.
Using an empty train station in Lungitz, Austria as a central meeting point, the site-specific group exhibition Giveaways / Hideaways approached the building by asking how an invisible, violent, and uncomfortable history could both be expressed and then carried away from it.