Stefanie Bálint-Gruber
annual shedding
Cosmos & Compost — Winter 2023
I will never be as fast as a horse :(
Just (A Lot) Of Money — Summer 2025
Maintaining Idleness
Potential Energy — Energy Potential — Winter 2025
Naiad
Compost & Cosmos — Summer 2023
Waiting for the Frog to Disappear
Potential Energy — Energy Potential — Winter 2025
what if we followed each other's pheromones in the ant death spiral??
Die Zeit für Nettigkeiten ist vorbei — Summer 2024
Stefanie Bálint-Gruber — Maintaining Idleness
Potential Energy — Energy Potential — Winter 2025
Maintaining Idleness is technical infrastructure disguised as a dollhouse.
By miniaturising the concept of fake buildings within the exhibition space, the work conceals a necessary exhibition setup behind a seemingly passive facade.
While it appears idle from the outside, the dollhouse provides the exhibition with functioning Wi-Fi and network infrastructure. In doing so, the work challenges the notion that idleness is synonymous with inactivity. Instead, it presents idleness as a condition that must be actively maintained, much like the seemingly invisible processes that sustain domestic and infrastructural norms.
Dollhouse, router, electronics