ALIPALOMA / FERDINANDEUM INNSBRUCK
A project as part of the competition “Ferdinandeum: Art on the Construction Site”
Jury members: Ingeborg Erhart, Silvia Höller, Annja Krautgasser, Lukas Madersbacher, Bernhard Marte, Marion Piffer Damiani, Andreas Rudigier, Peter Sandbichler, Roland Sila, Gerhard Wastian, Melanie Wiener, Robert Zimmermann
The Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum is being rebuilt. Not only is the building itself changing – the museum as an institution is being rethought.
The artist AliPaloma takes part in this process on two levels: with a graphic work on the construction fence (“How can a museum be a dialogue?”) and with the Museum Satellite, a place to gather in the urban space.
The construction fence, graphically designed in collaboration with Mirijam Obwexer, becomes a surface for reflection in urban space. It not only marks a boundary but opens up a space of possibility – between what exists and what is yet to come.
Charged with critical questions, it makes transformation visible and places the museum itself up for discussion. The questions were formulated by AliPaloma and translated and expanded together with the museum’s multilingual team. They revolve around themes such as participation, transformation, polyphony, and future, weaving together images and metaphors from the context of construction sites and soon opening up to participatory extensions in the digital realm.
The Museum Satellite is a temporary, mobile meeting space – an open installation made of modular, equally sized elements: four arches and six round benches. Its form is inspired by the historical rotunda, the round entrance hall of the Ferdinandeum.It moves through three contexts in and around Innsbruck and has been located in the Angerzellgarten since October 4, 2025. The Satellite acts as a receiver of new perspectives: it gathers impressions, voices, and ideas from the museum team and everyone who wishes to take part. On pink-lacquered surfaces, words can be placed, sentences formed, and traces left behind.
Concept and design: AliPaloma | Curator: Rosanna Dematté | Graphic design: Mirijam Obwexer | Translations and text contributions on the construction fence: Special thanks to Greta Pichler for her linguistic and artistic contribution to the formulation of questions and keywords, and to Patricia Aichner, Sefora Coronelli, Olesia Grygoruk, Stéphane Grivet, Zoltan Jaszter, Chikako Kellner, Merima Mujkic, Alexis Neira Navarro, Muhammad Pazmawi, Kira Ruzanov, Tuğba Şababoğlu, Borislav Tzikalov, and Ottilia Winkler | Production support: Charisse Santos, Laura-Marie Glas | Production Museum Satllite: Ellecosta Metall GmbH, Brixen | Museum workshops: Hannes Würzl|Program Museum Satellite, communication, digital space: Katharina Walter, Laura Manfredi, Lisa Noggler, Gerlinde Tamerl-Lugger, Manuela Fritz, Alexander Moser, Alexander Scherz, and others.
