Tanja Vujinovic: MIND GARDEN
Audio-visual installation, 2026
Location: Funkhaus Wien — 4th floor hallway
Dates: 11.4. – 20.4.2026
Opening hours: 17:00 – 21:00 daily
Mind Garden unfolds as a speculative ecosystem where consciousness, technology, and biological imagination intertwine. The work presents a luminous landscape populated by unusual plant forms, neural structures, and otherworldly organisms that appear both technological and alive. Spherical elements drift through the environment like fruit or seeds, functioning as emotional signals circulating through a shared cognitive landscape.
Across the installation, hybrid faces continuously emerge and transform. Masks shift, exchange features, and absorb traces of multiple species. Identity appears fluid and composite, an evolving structure shaped by encounters between bodies, technologies, and environments. These transformations foreground diversity as a generative force.
Fragments of digital culture, emoji-like shapes, neon signals, and synthetic textures interweave with botanical growth and neuron-inspired networks. The environment behaves like a garden of minds, where signals, memories, and emotional states circulate as living matter.
Mind Garden proposes a shift from technological anxiety toward a more compassionate relationship with the strange systems we create. It imagines a future where difference, curiosity, and resilience become essential ecological conditions of consciousness. Within this landscape, strangeness is a form of wellbeing.
About the artist
Tanja Vujinovic is a media artist whose practice explores the cultural, emotional, and perceptual dynamics of networked experience. Working with sculpture, drawing, VR, AR, generative 3D environments, and immersive installations, she constructs hybrid virtual ecologies populated by synthetic avatars, techno-organic forms, and cybernetic soundscapes. Her projects transform immersive environments into speculative architectures and experimental gardens where bodies, technologies, and social imaginaries intersect.
Since 1997, her work has been exhibited internationally in museums, galleries, and festivals, including Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Strasbourg, Museum Kunstpalast, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Kapelica Gallery, and Künstlerhaus Vienna, as well as events such as Ars Electronica and ISEA 2009.
Tanja Vujinovic holds a degree in Painting from the University of Arts in Belgrade, studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Theory of Visual Culture from the University of Primorska.
More about the artist and the project: tanjav.art