Discovering the inside of an inconspicious gallery space at Schleifmühlgasse, Vienna drew our attention to the very momentary, empiric way of understanding the city as a sequence of rooms, each one having a specific capicity of containing. The grade of interest to their content is varying, depending on the very moment one enters it. Aligned with the term of repetition, in the case of a city meaning its structuralist appearance; Repetition of events, phases, structures and transformations it serves as a lode for a museum that deems to intervene where unexpected, by dissolving patterns, those who are manifest and those invisibely conceiled in the subconscious minds of the creeping, running, strolling subject. It seeks to penetrate the seemingly determinate border between the spaces where one goes and those we rather don’t enter.

Approaching the artwork, from various sides, from below or from above, with a great or small distance, meeting obstacles or beeing pulled by it, passing by or heading towards it is the main subject to the exhibtion. Using the deja vu as an educational tool and the spacial series in order to create an aesthetic unity, diversity and retrieve an immaterial quality from the collection of artworks.

As research extends to the urban space, the museum should behave in a similar way. An extension as well in curatorial as in spacial research. While its space is enlarging (or shrinking), the exhibition constantly transforms into another one, shifting its subject by subtle changes, taking away or adding artworks, collections and information.

Thereby the result will not be one room, white and adjustable, adapted and renewed for the sake of temporary exhibitions, always hiding the buerocratic monster of research and organisation behind plasterboards. Rather it will be a metaphor for what space in the city is, how it alters autonomously and how art attributes a performativity to the viewers relative position within the tangible surroundings, built and non-built.