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WEBSITE UPDATE
Under the project title “Transformation of the basis wien Digital Repository 2026”, this website is being redesigned and the basis wien database expanded with new functionalities. Working closely with software developer Tilmann Singer and artist Michael Franz, who is responsible for the website’s new visual design, the basis wien team – Andrea Neidhöfer, Helene Baur and Verena Lindner – is developing the digital repository further, both technically and conceptually.
The process began with an evaluation involving artists, curators, gallery owners and other users, whose different perspectives and search requirements were taken into account. Their experiences fed directly into the subsequent conceptual development.
A key objective is to make the actual archival holdings more accessible and visible. The website is therefore structured around the search for objects as primary sources and the information relating to them recorded in the database. All records associated with individual objects, including those relating to persons and exhibitions, are interconnected. Records relating to persons, groups and institutions can now be explored through a dedicated online index.The modernisation also includes a comprehensive technical expansion of the database. Audio and video materials will be directly integrated into the repository, enabling different media formats to be digitally catalogued and preserved.
In future, the database will also be available to other institutions, collections and artists’ estates through individual user accounts. Holdings such as libraries, material collections and artists’ estates relating to contemporary art can thus be systematically catalogued, digitally documented and made publicly accessible. -
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Part of the visual identity developed by Propeller z for basis wien in 1997.
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Propeller z for basis wien, MQ, Design 1997
