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In the work Club Zukunft, the measurements of a standard two-bedroom apartment of the ubiquitous East German housing series 70 and a two-bedroom apartment of a prefabricated building from Co-op city in the Bronx in New York and a two bedroom apartment of the prefabricated buildings in Ballymun in the suburbs of Dublin are reproduced on a scale of 1:4 and superimposed. Printed fabrics and photographs projected onto the panel made of different materials and surfaces show architectural details from social housing projects in Paris and Dublin, New York and London on the one hand, and from socialist housing programs in the GDR and Tashkent, Uzbekistan on the other. This reveals structural similarities and fine distinctions between modular construction methods used in different political systems. What this sculpture brings into focus is the contradiction of mass-housing projects: the promise of prosperity associated with them, in some way or another, and the disenchantment of their everyday life. (Andrea Pichl)