CDoupbles :: tuLIPS

 

veroniKATZEkova

“tuLIPS”

2025

Typographic installation, readymade (ceramic lips) and acrylic letters

31 × 81 × 12 cm

After showcasing the art installations in the garden of Stieglerhaus, we move now to the PIANO ROOM :: Salon of the Senses & Soul to find out how much flowers and language have in common.

Throughout history, humans have assigned meanings and symbolism to flowers and even invented the language of flowers. So it is perhaps no surprise that the tulips have lips.

Here everything is chrome silver, almost mirror-like. Voluptuous, seductive, but still somehow narcissistic and cold, lips protrude from the wall. A playful handwritten “tu” hovers next to them to complete a chrome metal typographic wall installation actually picturing a flower. The shiny surface flirts and seduces with its artificial beauty while reflecting the viewer’s gaze.

“tuLIPS” plays with the relationship between image and word, nature and culture, attraction and distance. A flower surrealistically becomes a body part, the body part becomes a decor object, and a word becomes a rebus to open doors for fantasies and aesthetic escapades.

Part of the exhibition “Das MUSEUM DER VERBORGENEN WÖRTER zu Gast im Stieglerhaus”, 20. Juni – 1. September 2026

Exhibition view: PIANO ROOM – Salon of the Senses & Soul, Stieglerhaus, St. Stefan ob Steinz, Austria, 2026

CDoupbles :: dySTOPie

 

veroniKATZEkova

“dySTOPie”

(de. Dystopie = en. dystopia)

Outdoor typographic installation / intervention on ready-made

2023

View: Stieglerhaus, St. Stefan ob Steinz, Austria, 2026

Part of the exhibition “Das MUSEUM DER VERBORGENEN WÖRTER zu Gast im Stieglerhaus”

20. Juni – 1. September 2026

Placed in the Elysian garden of Stieglerhaus—a place dedicated to art, culture, and education— "dySTOPie" rests like a fallen, displaced monument from another time, or a remnant of a warning. Its presence creates an unsettling sense that dystopia is still somewhere out there, and that danger lingers in the air.

CDoupbles :: ausgANGSTür

 

veroniKATZEkova

“ausgANGSTür“

2023

Outdoor installation

Part of the exhibition “Das MUSEUM DER VERBORGENEN WÖRTER zu Gast im Stieglerhaus”

20. Juni – 1. September 2026

View Stieglerhaus, St. Stefan ob Steinz, Austria, 2026

 Fear in Eden

 An unknown force, time, nature, or the human factor has caused some of the letters on the sign on an exit door to fall off. From Ausgangstür, only Angst is left; the rest are scattered on the ground.

The German word Ausgangstür (exit door) contains another word: Angst (fear). It has always been there, unnoticed. “ausgANGSTür“ makes this hidden linguistic structure visible. This linguistic revelation shifts attention from architecture to psychology.

Installed in the idyllic garden of Stieglerhaus in St. Stefan ob Steinz—a place dedicated to art, culture, and education—the work enters into dialogue with its surroundings. The almost Paradisiacal garden evokes a sense of protection, familiarity, safety, home and the idea of a world that appears complete in itself. The intervention transforms this seemingly self-contained landscape into a conceptual space.

The exit door ceases to be merely a functional object. Standing alone in the open, the door separates nothing. Detached from any wall, it recalls the portals of science fiction—a teleporter, a gateway to another world. It stays there like a monument to the fear of the unknown.

In this sense, “ausgANGSTür” is less a door than a mechanism. It visualises the moment when fear begins to structure our perception of the world—when openness becomes exposure, the unfamiliar becomes a threat, and the horizon turns into a border. Read this way, the work reaches beyond the individual. It touches on the social and political consequences of fear: the desire to withdraw, to fortify, to define who belongs inside and who remains outside.