ARCHIVE HORTOPIA:Art.Garden.Library

WORKS OF ART by: Gabriele Berger, Brigitte Coudrain, Anna Gerlitz-Ottisch, Lore Heuermann, Rebecca Horn, Renate Kordon, Monika Schönbacher-Frischenschlager, Eva Mohringer,  Paula Muhr, Chihiro Sato-Schuh, Irmgard Schaumberger, Kathrin M. Siegl, Matta Wagnest, Eva Ursprung, Gunter Damisch, Josef Fürpaß, Jakob Gasteiger, Walter Köstenbauer, Walter Kratner, Konrad Limbeck, Heribert Michl, Günther Pedrotti, Ferdinand Penker, Gerhard Raab, Alfred Resch, Oto Rimele, Erwin Schwentner (loan), Hartmut Skerbisch, Peter Christian H. Stachl und Victor Velculescu. FLORA PERFORMING is a well stocked rose and cottage garden which doubles as a cultural archive (1300 m2).

The MEDIA SCULPTURE GARDEN LIBRARY consists of 4000 horticultural books  dating from five centuries, plus other media.

* "Wabi-sabi is not found in nature at moments of bloom and lushness, but at moments of inception or subsiding. Wabi-sabi is not about gorgeous flowers, majestic trees, or bold landscapes. Wabi-sabi is about the minor and the hidden, the tentative and the ephemeral things so subtle and evanescent they are invisible to the vulgar eyes. . .

Wabi-sabi images force us to contemplate our own mortality, and they evoke an existential loneliness and tender sadness. They also stir mingled bittersweet comfort, since we know all existence shares the same fate."
Leonard Koren is the forerunner of wabi sabi in the United States.  As wabi sabi is a part of the Japanese culture, it is not written about there; only westerners have written about it.