Schloss Hollenegg Metal: Element 2026's Last Material
Element: Metal at Schloss Hollenegg closes a five-edition castle programme that has, since 2016, turned a 12th-century Styrian fortress into the most material-specific design exhibition outside the museum circuit. The schloss hollenegg metal show runs until 31 May 2026 in a building first documented in 1163, owned by the Liechtenstein family since 1821, and curated by Alice Stori Liechtenstein with works by Max Lamb, Philippe Malouin, Sabine Marcelis and a cast of roughly a dozen others. It is the last in a sequence that has cycled through the classical elements one material at a time. To close on metal - and on extruded aluminium in particular - is a choice with its own logic, and the choice deserves to be read carefully. ...