The Family Atlas

The exhibition tells the stories of the Liechtensteins who once lived at Schloss Hollenegg.

Rather than beginning with dates and genealogies, it begins with things: a piece of furniture, a garment, a tool, a portrait, a fragment of decoration. Some of these objects belonged to the family; others are contemporary works created in response to them. Together, they form arrangements through which individual lives start to take shape.

The exhibition understands biography as something assembled rather than fixed. Objects become narrative clues: they hint at habits, ambitions, tastes, contradictions and silences. The contemporary interventions do not illustrate history but enter into dialogue with it, imagining aspects of character that archives cannot fully record.

What emerges is not a definitive account, but an object-based oral history—one that unfolds through material encounters. Visitors are invited to read these arrangements for themselves, to sense connections, and to participate in the ongoing making of meaning between past and present.