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Start of the residency program in the DECORATOR project
17.12.2025
We are pleased to announce the start of our residency program as part of the EU project DECORATOR. Between November 2025 and the beginning of February 2026, artistic-research projects will be developed in Slovenia, Austria, Germany and Croatia that show how aesthetic, social and ecological approaches interact to open up new perspectives for sustainable building and living.
Our artist in residence
We are pleased to present the artists selected by the jury for the residency competition: Johann Reißer
The focus of the residency is on his interdisciplinary approach, which will be further developed over the course of the project.
Johann Reißer
Born in Regensburg in 1979, grew up in Lambertsneukirchen, lives in Berlin.
Johann Reißer studied literature and philosophy and wrote his doctorate on archaeology and sampling in German poetry after 1960. He has been publishing prose, poetry and intermedia works since 2004 and regularly appears at readings, performances and festivals.
He works with performance groups, teaches creative writing, philosophy and cultural studies and is a member of the literary groups dns [die_natur.schreibt], Beasts and Belzig 27. His most recent projects include the lyrical-graphic work "geHÄUSe - Zwölf Schleifen zwischen Zellen und Clouds" (2024, together with Ursula Seeger).
Term and final performance
The residency program will run until the beginning of February 2026, culminating in the final performance on 5 February 2026, to which we cordially invite you to experience the creative results together. A registration form will be available shortly.
The artists of the five residencies
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Nova Gorica/Rožna Dolina - UNG Rožna Dolina premises (Slovenia)
Improvement of materials, aesthetics and functionality of the UNG buildings in Rožna Dolina. The aim is to create an open, sustainable campus for art, research and community.
→ Alice Mestriner and Ahad Moslemi - Ebensee - Train Station (Austria)
Sustainable reuse of the former Ebensee train station - as a meeting place, a space of remembrance and a creative space of opportunity.
→ Maximilian Dunse
- Rosenheim - Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences Students' Sawmill (Germany)
Revitalization of the Students' Sawmill on the Rosenheim campus as a place for participatory art, sustainability and creative experiments.
→ Johann Reißer
- Ebensee and Nova Gorica - Train Stations (Austria and Slovenia)
The Nova Gorica and Ebensee train stations as iconic elements for the redesign of the cityscape and the questioning of the identity of the place.
→ Claudio Beorchia
- Hack the Wall - Reimagining Boundaries of Living and Building (Croatia)
creative projects with wood, straw and circular materials to develop new building forms.
→ Dujam Ivanišević, Silvija Ivanišević, Ana Mušćet
