Selected artists and cultural institutions were supported by Tim Schmelzer in the realisation of ambitious projects. Innovative projection solutions for film, theatre and exhibition ideas were implemented in collaboration. The MuseumsQuartier and the Albertina in Vienna are among the long-standing partners. In 2024, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg was also supported for the first time in the development and realisation of projection concepts.

ANDRÈ HELLER

ELBPHILHARMONIE HAMBURG

As part of the music and culture festival "Reflector André Heller" curated by André Heller himself, the Elbphilharmonie commissioned Tim Schmelzer to develop the technical concept for the projection on the north façade and to create a projection layout for the façade. Various words based on André Heller's brief greeted visitors during the cultural week from 16th to 24th March 2024.

Link: "Reflektor André Heller" 

XENIA HAUSNER

ELBPHILHARMONIE HAMBURG

As part of the music and culture festival "Reflektor André Heller", the Elbphilharmonie commissioned Tim Schmelzer for the conceptual planning and realisation of projections for the space Installation " Fremde in einer Sterotypen Welt" for the artist Xenia Hausner.
Several selected artworks by Xenia Hausner were adapted to the architecture of the foyer using several high-resolution 4K projectors.

Link: "Fremde in einer stereotypen Welt" 

RUTH BECKERMANN

"The missing immage"

The technical realisation of the filmmaker Ruth Beckermanns video installation "The missing immage" was supported which relates to the bronze figure of a bearded man lying down with a brush in his hand, depicting the Jews cleaning the streets during the pogrom after the “Anschluss” in March 1938.

Link: "The missing immage"

RUTH BECKERMANN

SALZBURG FESTIVAL 2019
Multimedia installation "Joyful Joyce"

The projection technology was planned and installed for the multi-media installation of Ruth Beckermann's video installation "Joyful Joyce" at the 2019 Salzburg Festival. The film installation focused on James Joyce, who spent several weeks in Salzburg in 1928. A thunderstorm scenario was projected onto a wall and the floor in the Baroque Museum in Mirabell Gardens and combined with a multi-channel audio installation.

Llink: "Joyful Joyce"

OTTO BELL

"The Badass Librarian of Timbuktu"

For the documentary production "The Badass Librarian of Timbuktu" Tim Schmelzer supported the Director Otto Bells film production with landscape and architectural projections in North Africa. Release date TBD.
  
Link: "The Badass Librarian of Timbuktu"

HERMANN NITSCH (1938 - 2022)

Retrospective “Sinne und Sein” 

To mark the 75th birthday of the artist Hermann Nitsch in 2013, his life's work was projected onto the museum grounds as a large-scale collage of images. The light installation shows excerpts from his artwork "The Blood Organ" from 1962. The 360° projection staging covered the entire area of the Nietsch Museum and was part of a comprehensive retrospective of the artist's work. 

Link: “Sinne und Sein” 

The Albertina is one of the most important art museums in Vienna and is home to one of the most important collections of graphic art in the world. For the opening of special exhibitions and fundraising dinners, various areas were provided with projections. For example, the Column Hall was transformed into a walk-in work of art, or the foyer was wrapped in a 360° projection in collages of the current exhibition exhibits.  
 

From Rubens to Makart

As part of the special exhibition "From Rubens to Makart" from the Lichtenstein Collection in the Albertia, works of art were selected and brought to life in an installation. The installation was specially created for the panoramic LED wall and presented at the opening of the exhibition. 

Art Direction by:
Tim Schmelzer

Animation by:
Haselbush

The Leopold Museum is an art museum in Vienna known for its extraordinary Schiele and Klimt collection. For various openings of special exhibitions and fundraising dinners, the façade and the main hall were illuminated with projections in which the images were adapted to the architecture in collage.
 

Imagine Tomorrow

In the special exhibition "Imagine Tomorrow", the Leopold Museum juxtaposed the works of Friedensreich Hundertwasser and his idol Egon Schiele for the first time. At the opening, exhibits from the collection were projected into the 25 metre high main hall, some of them slightly animated.

Allover concept and Art Direction by:
Tim Schmelzer

Animations supported by:
Dirk Pfeifer