Gregor Sailer, Industrial Site, Ras Laffan, Qatar, 2010, from the series ‘Closed Cities’ . Image © Gregor Sailer, image right Vienna 2022
In a new show at Kunst Haus Wien in Vienna, the Austrian artist continues his investigation of architecture where few civilians tread.
Gregor Sailer’s quest for unusual structures and buildings takes him to some of the most extreme reaches of human civilization — from military field exercise centers in the USA and Europe to a mining center near Chuquicamata in the Atacama Desert to Arctic snow fields.
