Zuger Säge & Zuger Alpe
Monday, June 22 to Friday, September 4, 2026
Over the course of several weeks, Rote Wand begins to shift.
It becomes a place of work. A space for thinking. A setting where things take shape. Not as a side program, but as an integral part of the summer.
Artists come together here to continue, to begin, or to develop ideas on site. What connects them is a shared sensitivity to landscape, to geography, and to the question of how we live and come together today. Established positions meet emerging voices. Familiar names encounter those yet to be discovered. It is precisely this mix that creates a certain tension.
Some work in a more classical way, through sculpture or painting. Others approach their practice through research, text or conceptual frameworks.
What emerges is not a finished result, but an open process. One that can be experienced as it unfolds.
Artists in Residence
Eva Biringer
Vienna and Berlin
Eva Biringer is a freelance writer contributing to publications such as Die Zeit, Die Welt am Sonntag, Merian and T Magazine, writing on style, culture, travel and food. Through her newsletter Liebe ich, she shares personal discoveries. Her books Unabhängig. Vom Trinken und Loslassen (2022) and Unversehrt. Frauen und Schmerz (2024) were published by Harper Collins. A third book is set to be released in spring 2026. She lives between Berlin and Vienna.
Jan Eustachy Wolski
Poland
Jan Eustachy Wolski is a contemporary Polish artist based in Krakow. Working primarily in painting, he creates figurative, often staged compositions charged with psychological tension. His work explores identity, youth, masculinity and social roles, shaped by a theatrical, at times cinematic atmosphere.
Kathleen Weyts
Belgium, based in Brussels
Kathleen Weyts is editor-in-chief of the Brussels-based art magazine GLEAN and previously led HART Magazine. She works as a writer, lecturer and curator, with projects including Open Space, Open Mind (ING Belgium Art Collection) and Cosas de la vida. Weyts is president of Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre and was director of CAHF. Her practice is shaped by an ongoing engagement with European art scenes and their connections to Africa and the Maghreb.
Christoph Matt, Sam Rees & Miele Palkevicute
Austria, United Kingdom, Lithuania
Christoph Matt, Sam Rees and Migle Palkevicute work at the intersection of design, art, technology and sound. Together, they engage with the local ecosystem surrounding the residency, attentive, research-driven and site-specific. Their focus lies on fauna, flora and the dynamics of the landscape. The result is a layered inventory of nature, bringing together scientific, artistic and sonic perspectives, presented through interdisciplinary media.
Liam Gillick
United Kingdom, based in New York
Liam Gillick is a British artist and one of the defining figures of the “Relational Aesthetics” generation of the 1990s. Working across installation, architecture, text and design, he is known for modular structures in aluminium and Plexiglas, as well as discursive works addressing economy, modernism and collaborative systems. His practice explores how social structures and modes of work shape contemporary life. A key project is the Weather Station on Fogo Island, a walk-in architectural structure positioned between function and sculpture, engaging with questions of climate, infrastructure and context. In 2009, Gillick represented Germany at the Venice Biennale.
Magdalena Frauenberg
Austria, based in Düsseldorf and Brussels
Magdalena Frauenberg works across installation, sculpture, drawing and photography. In her practice, she explores cultural symbols, traditions and constructions of femininity, often moving between personal narratives and collective imagery. Her work is layered, precise and attentive to the ways meaning is shaped through context and material.
Marion Anna Simon
Germany, based in Cologne and Kyllburg
Marion Anna Simon is a visual artist working in painting, performance and installation. She studied at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg and has developed a practice centred around identity, self-portraiture and memory. Her work is both direct and introspective, often unfolding through repetition, gesture and the act of revisiting personal and collective histories.
Taus Makhacheva
Russia, based in London
Taus Makhacheva is among the most important artists of her generation from the post-Soviet context. Working across video, performance and installation, she addresses questions of cultural identity, belonging and tradition within a globalised world. Her work combines local histories with broader relevance, marked by conceptual clarity, performative strength and a subtle sense of irony. Exhibited internationally, she has significantly shaped conversations around cultural heritage and global art production.
Roland Adlassnigg
Vorarlberg
Roland Adlassnigg works with what he encounters, both literally and conceptually. His practice is situational and open, developing from place, material and moment. It spans traditional materials such as wood, stone and steel, as well as more ephemeral and digital forms. Since the 1990s, he has been active internationally with exhibitions, projects and stage designs.
Rote Wand Dialogues
Friday, July 10 to Sunday, July 12, 2026
The Rote Wand Dialogues bring together voices from art, architecture, design and theory in an alpine setting.
They begin with the observation that profound ecological, social and geopolitical shifts are not only reshaping political and economic systems, but increasingly the conditions of cultural production. Climate change, shifting global power structures, religious conflict, and the transformation of work, leisure and attention all directly influence how art, architecture and culture are created, perceived and shared.
The Dialogues deliberately move a discourse that is usually held within urban institutions into the landscape of Zug at Lech am Arlberg. The alpine environment becomes more than a backdrop. It becomes a space of experience, where global developments take on a tangible form.
Rising temperatures, shifting vegetation zones, new dynamics in tourism, and the fragile balance between nature, infrastructure and cultural imagination make this region a place where contemporary change becomes particularly visible.
Including a fire kitchen with Lorenzo Lunghi (Torre Ristorante Milano) and Giorgia Goggi (Masseria Moroseta). Moderated and curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen.
A format that creates space.
And finds its impact precisely there.
Zita Cobb
Founder of Fogo Island Inn and CEO of the Shorefast Foundation. She represents new models of hospitality, local value creation and development rooted in culture.
Hannah Zundel
Fashion designer. She approaches fashion as a cultural practice, exploring how clothing reflects identity, attitude and the spirit of the time.
Lilli Hollein
Director General and Scientific Director of MAK Vienna. She connects design, architecture and cultural discourse with a clear focus on societal relevance.
Rote Wand Dialogues
Thursday, August 27 to Sunday, August 30, 2026
The second edition continues the format and anchors it more deeply within the summer at Rote Wand.
Over the course of several days, a structure of conversations, encounters and shared meals takes shape, one that cannot be broken down into individual moments.
The exchange does not happen in isolation, but in direct relation to place, atmosphere and the people who come together. This is where the quality of these days lies, in their openness, in thinking together, and in the closeness between the audience and those contributing their perspectives.
Curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen Moderated by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Micaela Dixon
Selected Voices of the Dialogues
- Bettina Kraus, architect
- Chris Kabel, designer
- Georg Diez, journalist and author
- Jelena Pančevac, writer
- Kersten Geers, architect
- Liam Gillick, artist
- Micaela Dixon, curator (moderation)
- Nicolaus Schafhausen, concept (moderation)
- Taus Makhacheva, artist
- Tulga Beyerle, Museum of Arts and Crafts Hamburg
- Vanessa Joan Müller, curator
