About

The project Broken Collection carries out the conservation survey and research into the collection’s history, the relationship between people and objects, from production and collection to destruction and preservation.
A series of workshops explores the collection and creates new approaches through transdisciplinary artistic research and international collaboration with experts from various fields.

Initially via coincidence an  expert team from Japan realized the potential of the broken artifacts in the castle. a selction of particulary valuable objects were shipped to Japan their original „birth place“ and were restored according to Japanese state of the art restoration practices. After a very successfull exhibition tour in Asia the exquisit pieces came back to Loosdorf.

In 2023, the start of the artistic research project ‚Broken Collection‘ (director: Gabriela Krist) was started.
The ‚Broken Collection‘ now addresses the question of how to deal with the fragmented ceramics from a conservation and art historical perspective as well as through the methodology of artistic research.