In his work, Kasper Akhøj addresses aspects of architecture and design history. In the exhibition “Welcome (TO THE TEKNIVAL)” at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, he presents two new projects: one on the recent restoration of Eileen Gray’s modernist Villa E.1027 (1929) and the other on the display system Abstracta (Poul Cadovius, 1960). With photographs and sculpture, he follows the transformation of the original design in its application and usage over the course of time. The exhibition reflects on the object’s contingency on history as well as the relationship between design and appropriation.

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