Over the summer and autumn of 2025, an artistic carpet will unfold across Wilten – a weave of voices, gestures, and stories that connects cultures and adorns the neighborhood as its foundation. Just Around the Corner invites us to rethink what neighborhood can mean: as stage, laboratory, space for encounter, and field of possibilities. Over two months, workshops, performances, installations, and participatory actions will emerge, closely interwoven with local residents and initiatives.
The invited artists – Boris Bare (Zagreb, street art), Katharina Löffler (Innsbruck, performance and dance), Krater Fajan (Innsbruck, architecture collective), and Michelle Schmollgruber (Innsbruck, visual arts) – work in different media, but share a common focus: art as a tool for encounter, collective creation, neighborhood-building, and social reflection.
Focus 2025 – Art in the Neighborhood
In 2025, a temporary space for learning and production will be created in the Innsbruck district of Wilten – in the spirit of Just Around the Corner. International perspectives will be linked with local knowledge and community-based practices. The focus will be on dialogue between artists, initiatives, residents, and the urban space.
The project refers to proximity and invisibility: something lies within reach, yet remains out of sight. It plays with this shifting of perspective – making visible what is right in front of us while opening spaces for what unfolds just beyond our gaze. The “corner of perspective” draws us into the diversity of views rooted in local surroundings and artistic approaches.
Participatory workshops, installations, performances, and interventions in public space will take place. Topics such as coexistence, memory, migration, women’s and FLINTA* perspectives, as well as the use of public space, will be explored artistically.
Local Partnerships
A central aim of Magic Carpets Innsbruck is close collaboration with local institutions, initiatives, and schools. In 2025, key partners include the Stadtteiltreff Wilten (ISD Innsbruck), the Documentation Archive Migration Tirol (DAM), and the Ilse-Brühl Secondary School, as well as neighborhood actors such as the Underbridge Festival, local craftspeople, and community organizations. Together, they create projects that are firmly rooted in the neighborhood and respond to its specific contexts.
Artists-in-Residence in Innsbruck
Boris Bare (Zagreb), in The artist is selected for the residency in cooperation with the Croatian partner organization Lab 852.
Street artist known for large-scale murals and his project Pimp My Pump. In Innsbruck, he will create ground and wall murals in public space – inspired by urban textures, neighborhood life, and the participation of residents. His aim is to develop visual markers in the district and make public space tangible as a site of collective creation. Planned collaborations include the Ilse-Brühl Secondary School, the Underbridge Festival, and local street-art communities.
Katharina Löffler (Innsbruck)
Brings a body-centered artistic perspective to Wilten. Her residency is directed toward FLINTA* participants of different generations, creating a safe space for exchange through dance and creative exploration. The goal is a collective performance in public space, raising questions of connection, embodiment, and feminist urban practice – while enabling access to art and movement. From 15 September to 4 October 2025, an intensive, collective process will unfold in Stadtteiltreff Wilten, Openspace Innsbruck, and public space. Through contemporary dance, improvisation, and reflection, the group explores intimacy, encounter, and the visible and invisible threads that connect communities.
Krater Fajan (Innsbruck)
A transdisciplinary collective at the intersection of architecture, design, and artistic practice. Represented by Christoph Schwarz and Jonas Längenfelder, the team engages with participatory processes, social spaces, and micro-architectures. Within their Innsbruck residency, they explore temporary structures, interventions, and collaborative formats that involve local communities, spark discussions, and open new perspectives on neighborhood and urban spaces. Alongside practical projects, members also teach, for example at universities and initiatives such as bilding in Innsbruck.
Michelle Schmollgruber (Innsbruck)
An interdisciplinary artist who began working with photography as a teenager and now combines textile techniques, performance, and visual art. Her work is grounded in craftsmanship, conceptually precise, and socially reflective – often through a feminist lens. During her residency, she collaborates with the Documentation Archive Migration Tirol (DAM). Through slow, process-based research, she transforms collected images and artifacts into tactile narratives that convey both intimate and socially engaged stories.
Neighborhood Festival – 4 October 2025
On Saturday, 4 October 2025, the neighborhood festival – co-organized with the Stadtteilzentrum / Stadteilarbeit Wilten – presents an overview of all residencies. Shown are artistic processes, stories, and traces rooted in the neighborhood, in the passage courtyard at Mentlgasse 12, as well as in Openspace Innsbruck and its surroundings. The lively program runs from 2–6 pm under the motto “Shaping Neighborhood Together.”
Activities & Program
Boris Bare (Zagreb, Croatia):
Wall mural interventions in Wilten & exhibition with Ema Marković Imbrija (Zagreb, Croatia).
The courtyard in Mentlgasse is already adorned with an impressive mural reflecting the theme of Magic Carpets – a must-see! Between 25 and 28 September, another mural will be created at the Franz-Fischer-Straße / Tempelstraße intersection, co-designed with students of the Ilse-Brühl Secondary School. The students are realizing panels developed in a previous street-art workshop at the Underbridge Festival. These panels will be shown on 4 October as part of Boris’s project. At the neighborhood festival, all of Boris’s interventions and the group exhibition Conflicts of Interest(with Ema Marković Imbrija) can be seen at Openspace Innsbruck.
Michelle Schmollgruber – We, In Between
(in collaboration with the Documentation Archive Migration Tirol, DAM)
This work presents a process developed over the summer. The entire DAM and ZeMIT team (Center Migration Integration Participation) was invited to contribute personal materials – wool, yarn, fabric strips, ropes. Each piece carries traces of origin, fragments of memory, and stories of movement. The result is an evocative fabric of storytelling that reveals Michelle’s poetic signature. The artwork will be exhibited, continuing its dialogue in a neighborhood shaped by cultural diversity where people from around the world live side by side.
Katharina Löffler – Where Is the Space for Our Bodies?
A performative reflection on intimacy, safety, and embodiment, combining contemporary dance, improvisation, and reflection. The project is aimed at women and FLINTA* participants. On 4 October 2025, as part of the neighborhood festival in Wilten, dancer and choreographer Katharina Löffler invites audiences to explore movement as a medium of encounter. Over three weeks, she worked in an intensive, participatory format with more than ten women from Innsbruck. Research, improvisation, and dance practice were combined to examine questions of body, space, and encounter. The performance will be shown in public space at 2:30 pm.
Krater Fajan – world wide wilten – Open Studio & Architecture Workshop
On the day of the festival, the collective invites visitors to a full-day open studio and architecture workshop. The focus is on temporary structures, interventions, and collaborative formats – accompanied by discussions that open new perspectives on neighborhood and urban life. Together, participants can design, discuss, and test street furniture. A ceramics station for children will also invite playful creation.
Program Overview
Ongoing
• Street-art interventions and in Wilten with Boris Bare
• Collaboration with Ilse-Brühl Secondary School
01.10.
• Exhibition opening Conflicts of Interest by Boris Bare and Ema Marković Imbrija, Openspace Innsbruck, 6:00 pm. The juxtaposition of these two artistic perspectives (illustrations and sculptural work) creates a dialogue about identity, conflicts of interest, misappropriation, and life in a region shaped by political upheavals. At the same time, the consequences of large-scale emigration and migration become visible, which continue to shape the social fabric to this day.
02.–04.10.
• Architecture workshop & open studio by Krater Fajan
04.10. – Neighborhood Festival Wilten
2:00–6:00 pm
• Architecture workshop with neighborhood creative station (Krater Fajan)
• Presentation of Michelle Schmollgruber’s project We, In Between (with DAM Tirol)
• Exhibition Conflicts of Interest (Boris Bare & Ema Marković Imbrija)
• Viewing of Boris Bare’s street-art interventions and panels co-created with Ilse-Brühl students
• Live music
2:30 pm
• Dance performance by Katharina Löffler: Where Is the Space for Our Bodies? (Starting point: Wiltener Platzl)
Further events in October, November, and December will be announced soon.
Curatorial Team
Curated by: Danijela Oberhofer Tonković
Curatorial assistance: Brigitte Egger
Magic Carpets Organization (Austria): Openspace Innsbruck, Mentlgasse 12b
Supported by
Creative Europe of the European Union, City of Innsbruck, Land Tirol, and BMKWMS.