Near, far,
wherever you are

Vienna Design Week, 2025
Matthias-Schönerer Gasse 13, 1150 Vienna Once a temporary fix, now a permanent condition: home-offices are set between the boundaries between public and private, here and there, labor and leisure, collapsing into a single hybrid space. In „near, far, wherever you are“, home-office is a metaphor for today’s fluid, flexible spaces and hybrid realities. The title reflects a contemporary reality, where an office can be at home or on a distant island, just as an exhibition can take place in a gallery, online, or even in a hotel room. It suggests a world, where geographic location and distance no longer defines our presence. Connections are emotional, virtual, and spatially redefined. Through objects, spatial interventions and narrative atmospheres, the show invites to reconsider how we experience space, how we connect and how the boundaries we once relied upon are continually redrawn.

For Bureau Fomo, Vienna remains a physical anchor — a base from which BF can host dialogues, collaborations, and cultural encounters that extend far beyond the city’s physical boundaries. Working transdisciplinary, hybrid, and flexible, Bureau Fomo creates spaces, exhibitions, and living experiences that blend objects with narratives, atmospheres, and social interactions. Their work is driven by the belief that space is more than a physical location — it is an experience, a meeting point, a memory and a connection, it is lived as a practice, an attitude and a vision for the future. By linking design, art, and craft, Bureau Fomo fosters connections between people, materials and their environments, always with an awareness of ecological, social, material, and cultural contexts.

With works by Alma Bektas, Alicia Borssén, Anton Defant, Jun Fujisaku, Laurids Gallée, Leo Koda, Hannah Kuhlmann, Serim Kwack, Xenia Lesniewski, Flora Lechner, Delphine Lejeune, Alex Macedo, Benjamin Nagy, Sho Ota, Paul Riedmüller, Clara Schweers, Tim Teven, Alise Tipse, Christoph Wimmer-Ruelland, Jiin Yoon.

Photos Lea Sonderegger & VIENNA DESIGN WEEK