That’s what remained of the Lamarr department store: rubble became trivets

From chunks of the shell, the artist made pot coasters under the title “Concrete Gold” as a practical object and art object. “The concrete coasters bring us a piece of ubiquitous building material on the table, which has also become a symbol of our excessive social appetite for resources, for land, for growth and in this case that meets the hunger for art and culture,” says the artist.

For a good cause

To benefit the “Hunger for Art and Culture” campaign, which gives socially disadvantaged people free access to cultural institutions, the 300 unique pieces were sold on December 8th at the Theater Kosmos in Bregenz. You can purchase a “shard of a Benko property” for a donation of 20 euros each.

“With this expression of solidarity, the Signa Group’s waste of resources and taxpayers’ money becomes at least a small part of something worthwhile,” said co-initiator Martina Feurstein, chairwoman of Klub Kosmos. “Hunger for Art and Culture” was founded by the Schauspielhaus Vienna with the poverty conference.