Straßenfeger und Gassenhauer. Vom Wandel der Kaiserstraße – eine Ausstellung kommt vorbei (About the Change of Kaiserstraße – An Exhibition Calls) was a project initiated by WOLKE 7, which was about sighting and surveying a street with artistic means; the individual contributions explored the street not only spatially, but also in terms of time.

artminutes / WOLKE 7: StraßenGESCHICHTEN
Audio stations along Kaiserstraße at the following addresses of Vienna’s seventh district: Klavier Galerie Wendl & Lung, Kaiserstraße 10; IBZ Bienenhof, Kaiserstraße 33; Foto Leutner, Kaiserstraße 62; Audiamo, Kaiserstraße 70
In StraßenGESCHICHTEN (Street STORIES), artminutes/ WOLKE 7 presented twenty-four of about fifty stories compiled for the MUSEUM OF EVERYDAY LIFE – stories that told about watchmakers and jewelers, publishers and printers, world travelers and visitors to Vienna, persecution and “homecoming,” children and consuls – stories about the park, the street and its shop owners, about business locations and living spaces, forgotten lives and rediscovered places.

Reinhard Blum: SILBERGRUND
Kaiserstraße 83
SILBERGRUND (SILVERGROUND) used the shop windows of a closed-down silversmith’s shop on Kaiserstraße 83 to showcase photo works on polished aluminum that playfully captured the reflection of the onlooker and of the façades across the street, overlaid with other real light reflexes in the shop windows. The light effects and reflexes caused by different grinding and polishing directions resulted in a new and unaccustomed view of Kaiserstraße.

Uwe Bressnik: Revival/(WIEDER-)BELEBUNG
Kaiserstraße 34
A typical example of many vacant business premises, the shop on Kaiserstraße 34 was given a technically simple but visually highly effective revival. Instead of allowing a view of an empty dilapidating interior, the glass panes of the shop windows and doors showed a pulsating, quasi-digital network architecture.

Franz Denk: continuous CHANGE
Viewing stations along Kaiserstraße at numbers 10, 35, 36, 44–46, 51–53, 56, 77, 89, 90, 94, 100, 106, and 111
Several viewing stations were set up in selected places, calling to mind how different – or unchanged – buildings, shop windows, and details looked until recently. The stations helped viewers to immediately relate to the cityscape, inspiring a confrontation with (imaginary) personal recollections and select documentary urban views.

Bernhard Fruer: CITY Fitness
Mobile intervention on Kaiserstraße
In a time in which the fact of death and human mortality is largely ignored in everyday life, a coffin in the passenger seat of a car parked in different spaces over the run of the event served as a memento mori.

Paul Ritter: Hausnummer KAISERSTRASSE
Temporary poster installation in urban space
Paul Ritter’s posters and fliers announced the sites of the individual contributions and expanded the Kaiserstraße by a couple of house numbers. The neon posters advertised the street like a rock-festival location, giving it somewhat of the air of an entertainment mile.