Turner Prize winner Simon Starling (*1967) has been invited to work in collaboration with the Danish artists’ group SUPERFLEX to open and unfold the new spaces at Augarten. The inaugural exhibition Simon Starling in collaboration with SUPERFLEX – Reprototypes, Triangulations and Road Tests showcases seminal works by the artists from TBA21´s renowned collection as well as delves into astronomical and historical explorations presented for the first time in and developed specifically for Vienna. Described as “possessed by a storyteller’s knack, a researcher’s zeal and a traveller’s nose for lucky finds,” Starling has produced a body of work that centers on excavated or personally established relations and resonances among objects, histories, narratives, and topographies. Endowed with a prodigiously associative imagination and an explorer’s frame of mind, he creates or reasserts connections between different places, cultural practices, and historical circumstances, in the process creating labyrinthine stories in which his exquisite and often humorous objects play a part. The Danish artists’ group SUPERFLEX, known for their forays into the copyright jungle and the world of reverse engineering, will present the results of a vertiginous investigation cum detective story regarding the history of the Augarten studio’s former occupant Gustinus Ambrosi. > >