Artist in Residence

In 2002 Joachim Eckl bought 7 hotel rooms from the Hilton Hotel in Vienna at an auction and took these rooms to “Die Station” Neufelden. He called the project “Hilton-transplantation”. These rooms were installed inside of “Die Station” over the next years one-to-one. They form the basis for the series “Artist in Residence” which corresponds to the aim of connecting national and international artists in the area of “Die Station”. Since 2002 numerous artists were guests in Neufelden to work on their current projects, experiments and also present new pieces of work. One of the Hilton rooms transformed to the “Hilton-Home-Guest-Room” in connection with the project “Land in sight – All in the same boat”: Joachim Eckl implanted the room in the apartment of a Chechen migrant family. It served as place of networking and communication in which people from different cultures could meet each other.