GAZEBO is a gallery for public spaces. Founded by eSeL (Lorenz Seidler), the project operates as a temporary gallery, an initiator for artistic activities in the public urban realm, an active communication catalyst and social meeting place for artists and local residents, as well as a public interface to the area of art and to various Internet media audiences. For the realization of its first project, GAZEBO took quarters on the plaza on the corner of Schönbrunner Straße 61 and Grohgasse, inviting an active exploration of the surrounding urban environment.

Jörg Reissner: Hüttengaudi
August 31 – October 2, 2010
Using “painterly found footage” of canvases, wallpapers, and discarded book shelves, Jörg Reissner developed new objects and ensembles which – carefully hung up, stacked up, or overlapping one another – expanded the painted picture into urban space. Reissner used the wooden GAZEBO shed as a frame and container, at once making it – propped up on one side on a pile of material for pictures – part of his installation. Iron poles inside and outside the shed served to hang up picture material and, inside, established new structuring coordinate axes. Through the brightly lit window, viewers could make new visual connections between the artist’s system of order and the “tilted” perception of the GAZEBO environs.
curator: eSeL

Emma Perrochon / Frédéric Sanchez: GAZEBO residency
September 2010
Emma Perrochon and Frédéric Sanchez were invited as “artists in residence” to explore the GAZEBO environs for a period of two weeks. They used their stay to hold a workshop for fellow artists to engage together in as critical discussion of the possibilities of “art in the public realm” and create graphic sketches plotting out urban-design solutions for the plaza. The joint interaction and its results were documented in a self-published “Fanzine” and distributed to the public.
curator: Christina Nägele

Onesto
Permanent project from September 16, 2010
The adjoining lateral façade of the “Intersport Riebl” sports store was graced by Brazilian street artist Onesto with a site-specific illustration. Relying on the colors orange, white, and black, the artist created one of his typical figures which, informed by a playful sense of humor, referred to the immediate surroundings: prohibition traffic signs and conflicts of interest between parking spaces for cars, bicyclists, and wall surfaces available for art purposes.
curator: Nicholas Platzer, INOBERAbLE gallery

Christian Eisenberger: Litfaßsäule
October 3, 2010 – June 25, 2011
Christian Eisenberger’s unique advertising column entitled Litfaßsäule (Advertising Column) served as an information post about current and upcoming projects. As an independent sculptural expression of the artist, it offered an exhibition space for his own works while inviting other items to be added from the neighborhood and being an information point about GAZEBO projects. And not least it was an ironical comment on the increasing shortage of opportunities for free designs or announcements in the public realm.
curator: eSeL

Damian Stewart / LIA
October 3, 2010 – February 2011
Media artists Damian Stewart and LIA chose the three large trees on the plaza as the site of their light installation. More than forty LED lights were mounted in the trees and coordinated with a self-built computer so that they accentuated the structure of the trees and leaves and simulated motion. The trees appeared to be communicating through light and sound signals.
curator: Michael Zeltner

Erwin Stefanie Posarnig: Der Kollaborateur
October 3, 2010 – June 25, 2011
Der Kollaborateur (The Collaborator) featured speechballoon-shaped lawn signs with humorous and critical texts printed on them which were mushrooming in the public realm of Margareten, Vienna’s fifth municipal district‚ around the GAZEBO site.

Regula Dettwiler: Bird Karaoke
October 3, 2010 – June 25, 2011
On opening day, Regula Dettwiler invited to what she called Bird Karaoke on the plaza in front of the werkzeugH. Equipped with soundproof cover and a microphone, visitors, the interested public, neighbors, and experts were asked to produce and record their imitation of bird sounds. The whistling, singing, and chirping was then edited and softly played back in the mornings and during evening hours out of two trees on the plaza.
curator: Katrina Petter

Stefanie Wuschitz: Vagina Dentata
November 11, 2010 – February 2011
Self-made LED projectors were used to project drawings onto the windows of the GAZEBO shed, which, activated by motion sensors, confronted the mostly male regulars of the werkzeugH pub with a work about female sexuality by a young feminist media artist, Stefanie Wuschitz: the myth of a strong, active, shameless toothed vagina.
curator: eSeL

raumzeug: Kommunikatorator
June 26, 2011 – December 24, 2011
Emerging as the winners from the open GAZEBO competition for the plaza design with their Kommunikatorator installation, the “raumzeug” group of artists and architects extended an invitation to rediscover the public realm as a site of communication. The pointed shape of the Kommunikatorator, a temporary wooden triangular installation, alluded to the acute-angled layout of the plaza and playfully encouraged communication activities and active exchange. “Communication helps!” This was the motto under which the temporary installation opened up to passers-by, with new dialogic and monologic dimensions unfolding to them in their tentative communication approaches.

Judith Fischer: Geisterhäuschen
June 26 – December 24, 2011
Judith Fischer transferred her documentary Geisterhäuschen (Spirit Houses) photo series into the public realm. The motif of selected bird boxes, photographed 2011 in Austria, was recontextualized by the artist as a European variant of Thai “spirit houses.”
curator: eSeL

Rudi Hübl: Urbane Volxkunst
June 26 – December 24, 2011
The aesthetic of “fly-posted bills” in the public realm was protected with umbrellas against disintegration and at the same time exposed as Urbane Volxkunst (“Urban Folk Art”) to the public as well as to the weather.