Music everywhere! The princely court of Salzburg – a centre of European musical culture 1587 – 1807

Artistic direction of the exhibition 2020

In 2020 the DomQuartier focuses on Salzburg’s great musical tradition, which is inseparably bound up with the history and the various rooms in the Residenz and the Cathedral precinct, as well as with Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Georg Muffat, Antonio Caldara, Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Michael Haydn – long before the inauguration of the Salzburg Festival.

tx-mirror

Real-time installation, 2018 2018

The installation "tx-mirror" was created for the exhibition "Art in Motion. 100 masterpieces with and through media" at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and is a further development of the film technology "tx-transform" invented by Martin Reinhart in 1992.

Leopold Museum

"Parallaxis – Media installation for the exhibition 'A Rush of Color" 2015

For the exhibition "A Rush of Color – Masterpieces of German Expressionism" (9 October 2015 - 11 January 2016 at the Leopold Museum) Virgil Widrich designed a media installation consisting of a disc, 3 rings and a projection with shifting perspectives.
 

Vienna State Opera

Virtual Tour 2013

checkpointmedia creates a virtual tour of the Vienna State Opera. Visitors are given the chance to  explore the opera house on the Ring and the rehearsal stage in the Arsenal.

Museum of Natural History Vienna

The Meteorite Gallery Reopens 2012

checkpointmedia is responsible for the multimedia installations and the graphic display of information for the new Meteorite Gallery of the Natural History Museum Vienna.

Museum of Natural History Vienna

Concept for the new installation of the Meteorite Gallery 2011

For the new installation of the Meteorite Gallery, a concept was developed in partnership with Arno Grünberger/spurwien to devise a modern method of knowledge transfer that sensitively combines the existing architecture with multimedia elements and exhibits.

Exhibition "90 years of the Salzburg Festival"

"The Great World Theatre" 2010

In 2010, the Salzburg Festival celebrated its 90th anniversary. A traditional style exhibition with panels, objects and models seemed inadequate for presenting the sheer variety of artistic brilliance. Consequently, the displays and texts were "fanned out" to reflect the scope of the Festival's history.

Albertina

Website "Atelier Mobil" 2010

Development of the children’s website ‘Atelier Mobil’ for the Albertina.

Imperial Palace (Hofburg) Innsbruck

Media installations 2010

checkpointmedia equips Empress Maria Theresia's baroque state rooms and the Imperial Apartments with unobtrusive media installations that describe the history, uses and renovation of the Palace using historical and current images.

90 Years of the Salzburg Festival

Exhibition website 2010

In 2010 the Salzburg Festival celebrated its 90th anniversary. To mark the occasion, checkpointmedia designed and put together the main exhibition in Salzburg Museum’s Kunsthalle.

Vienna Konzerthaus

Mirrored showcase 2010

A mirrored showcase with a monitor is installed by checkpointmedia in the foyer of the Vienna Konzerthaus. The showcase informs visitors, in an innovative and very impressive way, about the wide variety of events that can be staged in the concert rooms.

Exhibition "Linz. City in Luck"

Linz 2009 European Capital of Culture 2009

Planning and implementation of the exhibition "Linz. City in Luck" in the context of European Capital of Culture Linz 2009.

“Time Machine” for Continental Drift at the Museum of Natural History Vienna

Touch-operated media station 2009

Development and construction of the “time machine” for continental drift at the Museum of Natural History Vienna.

Volcano pump for the Museum of Natural History Vienna

Mechanical media station 2009

checkpointmedia has designed and produced a "volcano pump" for the refurbished Geology Room at the Museum of Natural History Vienna, which was opened in 2009.

Mozarthaus Vienna

Media installations 2006

The audio-visual installations in the Mozarthaus are inspired by media techniques and "wonder worlds" from Mozart's time: the installation on the topic of “Figaro” combines the principle of old puzzle dice games with modern aesthetics and video technology. The grand finale is the multimedia homage to Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute": a stage set made of scenery, projections and lighting effects showing a short version of "The Magic Flute" as virtual "mirror opera" from 1791 until the present day.

Sattler Panorama media installations

Salzburg Museum 2005

The Sattler Panorama, completed in 1829 and presented in a mobile rotunda, became a pan-European attraction. Supplemented by an interactive module, the original panorama is now once again open to the public at the Salzburg Museum. Looking through a "time/reading glass", visitors can move a screen continuously over an image of the Sattler Panorama and alternate between 1829 and the present day in the selected section.

Hans Moser exhibition

Austrian Theatre Museum 2004

The exhibition “Hans Moser” (2004) on the popular Austrian actor and virtual national institution was one of the most successful exhibitions ever held in the Austrian Theatre Museum.

Exhibition "Building - our Future" at the Technisches Museum Wien

Media stations 2001

The checkpointmedia team was commissioned by Brigitte Simma’s studio with creating media stations for the exhibition "Bauen - unsere Zukunft" ("Building - our Future") which opened in May 2001 at the Technisches Museum Wien.

Museum Ladin

Multimedia stations 2001

The Museum Ladin in South Tyrol contains an impressive account of the history of the Ladin people in the Dolomites, which stretches back over more than 2,000 years: the multimedia station "Historical Panorama" portrays their history using video animations and audio commentaries in four languages; the interactive "Language Atlas" offers entertaining insights into the Ladin language.

Haus der Musik

Sound Museum 2001

The Haus der Musik presents itself as a contemporary sound museum. Here the phenomenon of music is presented as a multimedia experience.