Der Bau (the building), an installation by artist Hito Steyerl in cooperation with Gabu Heindl, tells the stories of the Brigdehead Buildings, whose erection was closely connected to National Socialism´s history of terror. Using the buildings as a focal point, it uncovers the traces of everyday life under the National Socialist regime.

Der Bau confronts the building and its surroundings as they appear today with archival documentation, material evidence, and eyewitness interviews. Its stories are told in five video displays, mounted in the building´s commercial space. A pattern chiseled into the building´s façade - directed by the architect Gabu Heindl - shows the trajectories of the stories´ protagonists across the world, removing the plaster to reveal a symbolic map of forced labor, displacement, and annihilation.

A public installation at Linz09 - European Capital of Culture 2009 Artist: Hito Steyerl, Architecture: Gabu Heindl February 27 until end of December 2009