photo documentation, 2025
Zimmer mit Alpenblick
opens toward the Alps – but it is not just the landscape alone that becomes visible. This room carries silence, distance, and the weight of temporary lives in the heart of permanent mountains. It is one of the rooms in a fictional Hotel Europa.
Hotel Europa
is a long-term project that explores places historically established for temporary lodging in Austria’s tourism sector. Such as hotels, guesthouses, and recreational facilities. Once designed for rest, recreation, or leisure, many of these sites have lost their original function and are now offered as shelters to accommodate people fleeing the war in Ukraine, as well as refugees, and displaced people from other regions .
In these spaces, inhabitants coexist in a strange state where “temporary” becomes permanent. Without a safe place to call home, people cannot choose their surroundings and must adapt to what is available, adjusting their needs accordingly. As a result, the places themselves change, their image and appearance shaped by the presence of their now long-term inhabitants.
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working process, 2025
Zimmer mit Alpenblick features photographs taken by Mark Chehodaiev during his trip in the company of curator Anastasiia Diachenko and fellow filmmaker Dmytro Churikov in September 2025 to two remote locations in the Tyrolean Alps.
Mark Chehodaiev enters these remote and transformed spaces, capturing their reality in its vulnerable, fragile state. His photographs make visible this transformation, the material exhaustion and the gradual erosion of the very notion of temporary shelter.
ZIMMER MIT ALPENBLICK
15.01. – 19.01.2026
exhibition view
Openspace Innsbruck, 2026
coming soon…
curated by Anastasiia Diachenko
coordinated by Brigitte Egger / GRUND1535
Mark Chehodaiev
(b. 1997) is a Kyiv-born artist working with site-specificity across photography, installation, and intervention. He studied stage design and cinematography at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (MA) and graduated from the Contemporary Art Course at the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts in 2019. Since October 2021, he has been based in Vienna, where he is currently studying Site-Specific Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Die Angewandte).
In 2023, he was awarded the Young European Artist Award Trieste Contemporanea. In 2025, he received the MYPH Photography Prize (Second Prize) and the Theodor Körner Prize.
Zimmer mit Alpenblick was realized in the context of Mark Chehodaiev’s artist residency at GRUND1535 in September 2025, supported by Stadt Innsbruck and Land Tirol.
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