Exhibition "fading fields. Rural Visions Between Imagination and Disappearance"

Mut, Geschichte zu schreiben – from history to HERstory

Gmunden takes on a special role in the program of communale oö 2026: the transition from history to HERstory. Through a conscious reinterpretation, women are brought out of the "blind spot" of a male-dominated historiography, with their deeds, experiences, and contributions placed at the center – aspects that were often missing in traditional accounts and continue to be missing.

Exhibition "fading fields."

In 1996, students at an agricultural school were asked, as part of a writing workshop, to imagine what agriculture might look like in the year 2025. 30 years later, photographer Daniela Köppl – herself a member of the class at the time – meets up with her former classmates again. She portrays them, reads their teenage writings back to them, and documents what has become of them. In 2026, their children write a new chapter: Rural Visions 2055. The result is a cross-generational reflection on continuity and loss, on memory and change – a tapestry woven from archival material, interview fragments, and photographs of rural life.

In cooperation with communale oö 2026.