Max Höfler and Andreas Unterweger

For the BAU opening, Max Höfler and Andreas Unterweger build a house: a shell with many cellars, haunted by the ghosts of history. Its front yard extends to the Sava. The house rules—written by the governor—decide who is let in. Out of quotations, a home for right-wing rhetoric is erected; those who live here have helped construct it. If you look closely, you can see cracks in the walls, between remembrance and repression, between serious politics and absurd comedy. Language becomes a construction site, history the foundation. This house says more about the state of Styria than any grand speech. Welcome to the tour.

Max Höfler (1978, Vorau, Austria) is a writer and artist. He writes experimental and conceptual prose and regularly participates in international readings and literary performances. Between 2009 and 2017, Höfler directed the literary department of Forum Stadtpark, and he is also the editor of the literary magazine Glory Hole – Nachrichten von drüben, published on a screen outside Forum Stadtpark. In 2024, he was awarded the Rotahorn Prize and, in 2025, he read at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. Höfler lives in Graz.

Andreas Unterweger (1978, Graz) is a writer, translator, and the editor of the literary magazine manuskripte. Recent publications include the novel So long, Annemarie (Droschl, 2022) and the poetry collection Haus ohne Türen (Droschl, 2025). Unterweger has won, among others, the Akademie Graz Literary Prize 2009 and the Province of Styria’s manuskripte Prize 2016. He lives in Leibnitz.