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On the top floor of Kunsthaus Bregenz, a modular 7.2 by 7.2 meter house will be installed, consisting of 249 individual aluminum parts and two panes of glass. It is fully habitable, with a sleeping area, kitchen, bathroom, and a retractable table. It is connected to electricity, water, and the sewage system via Kunsthaus Bregenz—the installation becomes a parasite.

Parasitic architecture is a practice in which a new structure is added to an existing building. The parasite benefits from the infrastructure of the host, whereby here at Kunsthaus Bregenz, parasite and host are intended to enter into a symbiotic relationship.

Visitors to the exhibition are invited to inhabit the space—to sit, lie down, use the bathroom. After the exhibition ends, the house will remain as a mobile artist's residence: a living, functioning structure, built to be disassembled and reassembled elsewhere. The house comes with a manual containing step-by-step instructions for its reassembly. It sees itself as a tool—intentionally unfinished—validated solely by its usefulness.

On the floors below, architectural cladding reflects the house's construction. The flexible membranes are designed to structurally adapt to varying climatic conditions.

The modular house is not for sale, to be owned, or archived. It exists for people to live in it, to pass it on, to alter it, or to repurpose it. It resists the afterlife of art as a commodity, thus sabotaging a logic that equates value with permanence or visibility with truth.

The house is being built with the exhibition's financial resources. Flexibility here is not an aesthetic gesture, but a political stance. The house adapts to the conditions: the climate, the context, the use. It is architecture without commitment, a form created to outlast the systems through which it survives.

After being invited to exhibit at Kunsthaus Bregenz in the fall of 2025, the artist decided to keep their identity secret. Not as a retreat, but as a method: a conscious rejection of the economies of authorship, legacy, and visibility.