Danube Dash I | Open Art 2025, Summerstage U4 Rossauerlände

Denise Schellmann
Jun 8
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Fotos: Milisa Prod, Denise Schellmann

“Danube Dash I”, art installation for Open Art Summerstage 2025

Colored pigment print reworked with graphite and colored pencil

Schellmann explores the “Donau Kanal Wien” biotope directly in front of the Summerstage. She grants elements of the constantly fluid biomass a lasting moment of visibility.

Through a transmedial process involving microscopy, photography, digital image editing, printing, and analog graphite and colored pencil drawing, she merges science and art in a site-specific way. The work evolves in creative dialogue with highly magnified algae structures.

In drawing, her strokes express a sense of delight at this revealed microcosm. Nature sets the framework for the selection of colors and forms—while art expands upon them spontaneously.

Text: Johannes Lusak

Original work series:

Danube Dash I (1/3)

2025

Colored pigment print reworked with graphite and colored pencil

35 x 11,8 cm

Danube Dash I (2/3)

2025

Colored pigment print reworked with graphite and colored pencil

35 x 11,8 cm

Danube Dash I (2/3)

2025