DECEMBER IN THE OFFICE
by Anna Barbieri
VERNISSAGE
10.10.2025 - 19:00
Gußriegelstraße 9
1100 Vienna
READING
PERFORMANCE
excerpts, fragments,
snippeets, maybe
an essay
07.11.2025 - 19:00
Gußriegelstraße 9
1100 Vienna
december in the office reflects on these unseen aspects of architectural labour through a combination of text and textile prints. The prints feature two photographs taken during long, tense working days in the weeks leading up to Christmas. This period, and the end of the year more generally, is especially stressful across capitalist professions, as accounting reports must be finalised, invoices claimed, and project phases closed to bill clients. Architecture, as a profession, is no exception.
Installed like curtains, the prints offer glimpses into the often-overlooked labour that architecture generates beyond the construction site—within the office environment. Overlaid with a poem, they reflect the perspective of an architectural worker who has become—despite the creative industry’s constant denial—a commodity. The curtains also pose a question to those occupying FREDIANE.space: should they reveal the (art)work that interrogates the invisibility of labour and commodification within architectural practice, or expose their actual architectural practice—the work and labour performed in the space behind the curtains? Either way, one aspect remains hidden
Anna Barbieri is an artist and architectural worker whose theory-based artistic practice engages with the production of architecture and space, as well as their socio-political entanglements and implications. She studied architecture at the Glasgow School of Art and at TU Vienna, as well as Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is part of the lo-fi electro pink punk artist performance band “Die Fitten Titten” and has shown her work at, among others, Tangente St. Pölten, at the ethnocineca film festival, and as part of the AzW summer cinema program.
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