08-05-06 // THE IMAGE OF EUROPE

Austria held the presidency of the European Union in the first semester of 2006. For this occasion the Austrian government decided to take the exhibition ¨The image of Europe¨, an exhibition that provides a history of European political representation, diagrams Europe’s political current structure and speculates on its possible futures.

Title: The Image of Europe
Project: Update of the Image of Europe
Date: March-April 2006
Type: Commissioned study and exhibition
Location: Vienna, Austria
Site: Heldenplatz – Helden Square
Programme: An exhibition that provides a history of European political representation, diagram’s Europe political current structure and speculates on it possible futures.
Surface: 640 m² (8 m x 80 m)
Status: Realized
Client: OMA/AMO for Austrian European Presidency 2006
Publications:
-SHD Super Holland design by ACTAR, Barcelona, Spain /New York, USA, November 2007
-032c #11, Germany, May 06
-Architektur #06, Austria, May 2006
Exhibitions:
-Tent at Helden Platz, Vienna, Austria, May 8 – July 2, 2006
-RAS, Gallery from ACTAR, Barcelona, Spain – February 15 – April 5, 2008
Team: Bernd Upmeyer, Frank Rödiger
STAR Team: Beatriz Ramo, Theo Deutinger, Andreas Kofler
(2004= Sebastian Koch, William Todd Reisz, Nanne de Ru, Jared Serwer, Amelia Stephenson)
Credits:
Conception: Rem Koolhaas and Reinier de Graaf.
Exhibition design: Jens Hommert. AMO/OMA
History of European Union: Beatriz Ramo, Theo Deutinger, Andreas Kofler, Bernd Upmeyer, Frank Rödiger (2004= Sebastian Koch, William Todd Reisz, Nanne de Ru, Jared Serwer, Amelia Stephenson)
History of Europe: Brendan McGetrick, Jeroen Koolhaas, Samir Bantal, Lok Jansen, Afaina de Jong, Richard Wang, Stephen Wang Jeroen, Wijering Floris Zegwaard
25 x 25: Beatriz Ramo, Theo Deutinger, Andreas Kofler, Bernd Upmeyer, Frank Rödiger (2004= Margaret Arbanas, Ademide Adelusi Adeluyi, Gjergj Bakallbashi, Simon Demeuse, Jason Long, William Millard)
Foreign Policy Centre: Mark Leonard, Greg Austin, Richard Gowan, Martina Rydman
Collaborators:
Advisors: Michael Wintle, Universiteit van Amsterdam, James Kennedy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Graphic design: Irma Boom
Tent: Pammy Boltini, Hans Martens
Contractor: Christoph van Damme