CULTURAL MISSION
Exhibitions and
curatorial projects
Part of the cultural mission of Rieder is to support designers, artists, and architects in their creative work. It inspires us when designers and artists work together with us and our material, fibreC glassfibre reinforced concrete. Through the creative input and the solutions we develop together with architects and artists, our facade product is optimized as well.
Together for better architecture.
Close contact with artists, architects, and designers characterizes the company culture at Rieder. Beautiful, discursive things stand for depth, identity, and meaning. That is how we see the relationship between Rieder glassfibre reinforced concrete and the things that are created with it. The promotion of young talents in the architectural scene, such as the students of architecture colleges, such as the TU Vienna, the AA School in London, the Harvard GSD, or the cooperation with established artists, such as Kurt Hofstetter, Franz West, Peter Sandbichler, or Kram Weisshaar, is not merely part of the corporate strategy.
The continuous further development of glassfibre reinforced concrete as well as the expertise transfer between designers and the company helps Rieder to position glassfibre reinforced concrete not only as a classic facade, but above all to highlight the design character of the material.
This commitment reflects the relationship that Rieder, as an international business, is building with all cultural and design projects: Artists contribute their creativity, flexibility, and their at times abstract, analytical thinking to the development department of the company. In return, Rieder allows the artists to let their imagination run free.
Archive
Together with the Green Dot and the Green Building Group, Rieder realized a “Sustainable Museum” with an öko skin facade at dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel.
For the 10th anniversary of the AA Design Research Laboratory, the architects Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang realized a temporary pavilion, made of concrete skin, which was also admired at the London Festival of Architecture.
At the invitation of the Viennese Design Week, Kram/Weisshaar and Rieder realized a large-scale installation that seems to float weightlessly above the ground.
For the Maison & Objet design fair in Paris, architect Georg Grasser developed 24 floating table elements, made of formed concrete skin elements – each one of them a one of a kind.
Designed by the students of the AA School for the Eco- and Future Build Show in London, the artwork was lovingly nicknamed Peanut, due to its shape, and was later exhibited at the London Design Festival.
156 corrugated concrete elements surround the pavilion, designed by Carlos Martinez architects. The interior of the pavilion was designed as a snail.
The stealth boat presented by Peter Sandbichler at the Museumsquartier in Vienna is made up of more than 100 individually cut parts made of glassfibre reinforced concrete in the camouflage color, Sandstone, to match the ground.
Heidulf Gerngross, Franz West, and Kurt Hofstetter designed a building envelope, consisting of single tower fragments, for the Nail Tower. A complex pattern was realized, using water-jet technology, and exhibited at the Museum für angewandte Kunst in Vienna.
The exhibits, developed for the Triennale/Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan by Davide Groppi and 967 Design, play with the contrasts of light and concrete.
