The installation was created as part of the STOPS AND STATIONS residency, which invited artists to temporarily inhabit and reinterpret vacant spaces along the Salzkammergut railway line. „Trainsition” responds to the specific spatial and cultural context of Bad Aussee’s train station, combining object-based spatial interventions with shifts in perspective.

My starting points for Trainsition were object-like integrations and shifts in perspective. I aimed to create a site-specific installation that merges these ideas with the architectural and environmental experience of a tourist-driven town. At the Bad Aussee train station, the existing suspended ceiling became a visual guide for designing spatial elements that act as visual “prostheses” within the space—partly abstract, partly symbolic forms referencing the station, the former waiting room, and the Styrian landscape.

The central structure was inspired by the gabled rooftops of Ausseerland houses, shaped by regional regulations since the 1980s. A broken triangular screen conceals a staircase, echoing both the local architecture and the rhythm of the waiting room’s cladding, while recalling surrounding mountain forms. This core is surrounded by transport-related barriers that, though visually connected to the structure, remain outside it—reflecting the region’s dual nature as both home and tourist destination. Bad Aussee’s history as a retreat for city dwellers since the 19th century is evoked through these intermittent, temporary presences.

The staircase is both symbolic and functional: visitors ascend above the suspended ceiling to glimpse the station’s original 19th-century ceiling. The structure becomes a “mountain,” with the drop ceiling acting like a layer of clouds—redirecting the anticipated outward view into a quiet, contemplative moment of looking upward, inward.