FUTURE PERFECT

After the transformation of all museums into creative DIY stores, the age of color-aesthetic education could begin to dawn.

Customers would be encouraged to explore their skills in the fields of color and materials.

Employees would take care to motivate everyone equally through informal conversations.

The indoor spaces of various cities, villages and communities would face groundbreaking changes.


WIN-WIN

One had called the other an esoteric, and the other called one pop-ass.

Neither of them were too bothered about it as they had long since reinterpreted the terms esoteric and pop-ass in a positive sense for themselves.

Both liked sunsets and cool drinks – and in the end they remained friends.

THE EXQUISITE FICTITIOUS APARTMENT

Suppose Anke buys a large-format painting by the painter Max Rödel and also an NFT of her virtual dream apartment – what happens then to Anke’s image of herself as an idealistic flatmate?


If she manages not to disclose to anyone that she has been buying paintings and virtual apartments, in the future she could have herself photographed in front of vintage furniture to indicate that she remains a student at heart and from the time when students were un-interested in speculation at all.

If she also manages to enjoy walking around the virtual apartment as much as gazing upon the large Rödel painting hanging on white wallpaper above the sideboard, and finds that she is likewise happy in her analogue apartment – then Anke remains an idealistic roommate all the more so; only one who now enjoys the occasional splurge.

VIENNA 2019

Spending entire afternoons in coffee houses and having a proper good time – that was the idea.
In reality, it was more like this: entire afternoons tootling through TK Maxx, hoping to find for oneself the Armani rain jacket that Adrian had bought.
In the evening, totally exhausted, sticking the key in the Airbnb. Sans rain jacket.

NINTENDO SWITCH

Occasionally, they met on the third floor of the winter garden to play the new Mario Kart, one-on-one, on the Samsung TV that looked like a painting on an easel, drinking the legally imported E9 nutritional supplement that kept them wide awake. Because they were surrounded by houseplants and floor-to-ceiling glass windows and wore colorful clothes and took rapid tests before each meeting, pretty much everything fell into place on those late spring afternoons, and they often wished they could just stop time.