Barbara Prenka – What Lies Behind the Boundaries of a Shadow?

For the fifth edition of BAW – Bolzano Art Weeks, Lottozero presents What Lies Behind the Boundaries of a Shadow?, a new site-specific installation by Barbara Prenka, curated by Lottozero and shown inside the former bar of Bolzano’s Central Station.

Developed during the artist’s residency at Lottozero (July–September 2025), the project extends Prenka’s ongoing exploration of the blanket as a sculptural and symbolic object. Recreated from scratch as a hybrid between painting and soft sculpture, the blanket becomes both surface and volume—an image of care and protection, yet also of absence and displacement. Suspended from the ceiling and illuminated by a single spotlight, the textile form hovers in darkness, transforming the empty room overlooking platform one into an intimate, contemplative space.

The installation is accompanied by a sound piece by Alessandra Novaga, which interacts with the constant rhythm of trains and travelers passing by. Embroidered words emerge as tactile signs, where language turns into texture and text becomes body.

What Lies Behind the Boundaries of a Shadow? marks the beginning of an extended collaboration between Lottozero and Barbara Prenka. A new version of the project will be presented at the Lottozero Kunsthalle in 2026 as part of the exhibition program Soft Sculpture, dedicated to contemporary approaches to sculpture through textile materials.

Presentation: 08.10 h. 17.00
Opening times: 03.10-11.10 Mo-Sa: 15.00-19.00

Ex-Restaurant Bolzano train Station, Piazza della Stazione 1
Supported by the Province of South Tyrol – Department of Culture