Ausstellung: Wonders of the Modern World

©Giovanna Silva, Sambódromo, Rio de Janeiro, 2024

We all know that wonders no longer exist. They belong to a distant past. Nobody builds sanctuaries or colossal statues in 2025, right? And yet, to our great astonishment, these things are right here, before our eyes. There are many of them—and they are very, very large. 

Finstral Studio Friedberg presents the exhibition curated by Pier Paolo Tamburelli and Anna Livia Friel, featuring works by Giovanna Silva, Giulio Squillacciotti, Werner Feiersinger, and Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. The exhibition explores several wonders of the modern world: extraordinary places where vast crowds gather to celebrate collective rituals.

 The project stems from research carried out by the Department of Gestaltungslehre and Design at the Technical University of Vienna and presents a previously unseen atlas of contemporary ritual landscapes. 

Accompanying the exhibition is a monographic issue of the architecture magazine ARCH+ Zeitschrift für Architektur und Urbanismus, entirely dedicated to the Wonders of the Modern World research. 

Ausstellung von 09.10.2025 - 30.03.2026

FINSTRAL STUDIO FRIEDBERG, Winterbruckenweg 64, D- 86316 Derching/Friedberg 

More information
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