Empfangshalle (DE): Cape of good hope

Corbinian Böhm (1966) and Michael Gruber (1965), collectively known as Empfangshalle, place the so-called autonomous art object into pre-existing infrastructures through intervention. The audience has an integral role as it forms a part of said infrastructure. The audience may also have a key role in giving possible answers to age-old questions regarding art. This is also an interpretation of the statement “art needs an audience” in that art takes place between audience, object and infrastructure. Here art breaks free from the constraints of objecthood and becomes a state, like a form of energy.