2026_portfolio_david biegl

expanding horizons I + II at studio dreivierteldrei, AT | 2016

Vienna , 17.3.2009

Vienna, 9.3.2016

encounters I - IV

Collagen, AT | 2019

The Transurban Residency project inaugurates a new season for the Rochdale Barracks in Bielefeld. After almost a century since its foundation, the area will open its doors to the city, starting a process of renewal and re-appropriation to reclaim its public use.

The intervention starts from a cutout of the boundless open spaces to resize the void and make it habitable, performing a sort of re-foundation of a new citadel built collectively and in a progressive way.

CITTADELLA

interim use Rochdale barracks Transurban Residency with studio orizzontale + kollektiv von null Bielefeld, DE | 2022

The new ring-shaped core is conceived as a space to be completed during the residency period: it will ultimately become an arena for running public activities and testing the new possible uses of this place. The central space is reminiscent of the vernacular architectures of nomadic populations, organized in adjacent parts around a center intended as a space for the community, but at the same time it opens up to the relationships with the surrounding spaces. These spaces will work as basic infrastructures for an interim use while waiting for the transformation that finally will return this space to the city.

The Yanomamö gardens in the jungle

The Shabono represents the house and the village in one. The entire residential community lived there, all under the same roof.

Drawing by Martin Černý.

The Transurban Residency project heralds a new season forCittadella_concept the Rochdale Barracks in Bielefeld. After almost a century since its foundation, the site will open its doors to the city and initiate a process of renewal and reappropriation to regain its public purpose.

The intervention begins with a cut-out of the boundless open spaces to reduce the void and make it habitable, a kind of re-foundation of a new citadel, built collectively and progressively.

The new ring-shaped core is conceived as a space to be completed within th residency: It will eventually become an area for public activities and the testing of the new uses of the place. The central space is reminiscent of the vernacular architectures of nomadic people, grouped in neighbouring partsaround a centre intended as a space for the community, but at the same timeopen to relations with the surrounding spaces.

These spaces will serve as basic infrastructures for interim use while waiting for the transformation that will eventually return this space to the city. project proposal by orizzontale curated by TRANSURBAN supported by the City of Bielefeld date: 08/05/2022

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cuts / cartilage

limestone (Untersberger marble), wire, animal bones International Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg Untersberg, AT | 2023

As well as meant to be outside, the two works cuts and cartilage also thematise self-empowerment and stability. Stones and found animal bones are juxtaposed with the artist‘s own human emotions and the limits of physical exertion and exhaustion.

cuts

cartilage I- III

AU SERVICE

temporary garden installation Festival international des jardins Hortillionnages Amiens, FR | 2024

The Hortillonnages in Amiens are a unique landscape that brings together the opportunities and risks of human impact on nature in one place as is rarely the case.

The Au Service installation is dedicated to the often hidden and almost invisible work of landscape maintenance. It aims to value the knowledge of gardeners and farmers and to make some of it accessible to the public. Like the Hortillonnages themselves, it aims to create a link between the natural and the cultural landscape, and a living monument to the human and non-human caretakers!

The aspect of “taking care” is becoming more and more part of the architectural discourse and is mainly focused on infrastructural spaces. Our aim here is to create a garden that is a tribute to the caretakers of this unique cultural landscape.

A garden that incorporates the pragmatic elements, the background of gardening, and makes them visible to the public in a quiet way, that grows and flourishes over time, and that will need to be maintained in the future.

Sculpturally arranged jute bags form the structure of the garden. They are usually filled with sand or substrate and serve to secure the land. They can therefore be associated with floods, natural disasters and rising sea levels in general. However, they also refer to the human management of natural resources and can be read, for example, as a compost heap, a gravel pit or a wood pile as found in ab work yard.

The piles are complemented by selective planting in the filled bags.

The installation questions the fast solutions and shows how much slow, hard work goes into cultivating the land. Visitors are invited to enter into a dialogue with the gardeners and the plants and experience the garden as a constantly changing state that needs to be taken care of. w davidkasperkovitz.com i david_kasperkovitz m david.biegll@gmail.com

meant to be outside

limestone (Untersberger marble), metal rods (210x60x30cm) International Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg Untersberg, AT | 2024

meant to be outside shows three vertically stacked stones that form a narrow, fragile sculpture.

Starting from a bone-like base, the figure pushes itself upwards with a twist and then turns towards the sky in a hopeful, opening gesture. The sculpture, which weighs almost 300kg, is freestanding and is only balanced at a single point.

three friends

Untersberg marble, wooden wedge International Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg Untersberg, AT | 2024

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spaghetti con frutti di mare Pasta, found plastic pieces Zaiana, IT | 2025

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turtle neck found turtle skull Zaiana, IT | 2025

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benign cancer found cancer leg Zaiana, IT | 2025

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