In 2005, the Museum of the Twentieth Century in Vienna was just another redundant building left behind stripped bare off its function. Yet once the video camera started to capture what was there, its potential as a location began to open up. The strip lights not just added brightness but filled this near empty space with a vibrating humming soundscape. A presence in this absence indicating what would have been, what might be there. This is because an art museum is never just a shell for housing artefacts but its most important function is to be a location for art. Art as practice, art to reflect upon and interact with. The building by Karl Schwanzer was first used as an exhibition pavilion at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels. After being relocated and adapted, it became the Museum of the Twentieth Century (1962 - 2002). 2018 it reopened as Belvedere 21 to be a harbour once more for contemporary and modern art.

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