Eight site-specific augmented reality installations by ten internationally renowned artists transform public spaces across seven municipalities in the Main-Taunus Kreis — Bad Soden, Eppstein, Flörsheim, Hattersheim, Hochheim, Hofheim, and Kelkheim.

Free and accessible around the clock through the WAVA app (iOS and Android), the project interrogates what it means to inhabit public space in a hybrid, digital age, and how digital interventions can reshape our perception of our surroundings.

Landratsamt Hofheim am Taunus – Tamara Grčić

29 April 2026, 18:30, Hofheim am Taunus, Landratsamt, Plenarsaal

In her multimedia installations, Tamara Grčić reflects on the everyday life in public places. For her work at the Hofheim district office, she disrupts the bureaucratic structures within the building’s imposing architecture: birds appear in the courtyard, unfolding across the space in choreographed movement. Human voices weave through their flight, creating moments of unexpected intimacy. The birds' movements redefine the space — and the movements of visitors, their upward glances, become part of a shared choreography.

Hattersheim am Main/Okriftel — Alona Rodeh

8 May 2026, 18:00, Haus der Vereine Okriftel, Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Str. 1

From c. 19:00, former Phrix Cellulose and Paper Factory, Kirchgrabenstraße 9

On the site of the former Phrix cellulose and paper factory in Okriftel, Alona Rodeh presents a new digital monument referencing military and media tactics of concealment: walls of fog obscure what must not be seen. A black-and-white brick wall collapses and rebuilds itself in an endless loop. Drawing on the history of the

factory — until 1938 it belonged to the Jewish family Offenheimer, forced into exile — Rodeh's work questions the limits of memory and the representation of violence. What does the image reveal, what does it conceal, and what is lost forever?

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Bad Soden am Taunus — Thủy Tiên Nguyễn & Wanwen Zhang

10 May 2026, 11:00, Alter Kurpark

In Bad Soden's Kurpark, figures from East Asian mythology materialise: spirits disguised as humans, scholars who fall in love with them. Thủy Tiên Nguyễn and Wanwen Zhang draw from the tales of Liaozhai Zhiyi — a manuscript in which love transcends social and supernatural boundaries. The park's natural springs and healing waters become elements in which hidden truths lie concealed. The sound of the multimedia sculpture is produced by instruments that harness water, pressure, and gravity — the waterphone and water gong — transforming the idyllic landscape into a site of collective storytelling and mysterious encounter.

Kelkheim — Lena Müller & Claudia Pense

15 May 2026, 18:00, opposite Buchhandlung Tolksdorf, Frankenallee 6

In the heart of Kelkheim's pedestrian zone, Lena Müller and Claudia Pense place a bench in the virtual space. Deeply influenced by bionics — a research field which nature serves as a model for technology — the artists create a green place of rest that adapts to weather conditions and its urban surroundings. Their utopian seating design draws on elements from the natural and animal world, emphasising the need for nature-infused environments within the city. At the same time, Müller and Pense dissolve the boundaries between art and design — fittingly so in Kelkheim, a town with a rich history in furniture craftsmanship.

Hofheim am Taunus — François Pisapia & Pauli Scharlach

21 May 2026, 18:00, Wassergraben am Alten Wasserschloss

Alongside Hofheim's moated castle, François Pisapia and Pauli Scharlach blend fragmented 3D scans of public squares, monuments, and crumbling walls into dreamlike cityscapes suspended between decay and reconstruction. Footage of fractured and weathered structures gathered from urban environments forms digital collages in which derelict spaces are reimagined as the architectures of the future. The artists ask how memory can be preserved, dissolved, and reconceived — and how past, present, and future might fold into one another.

Eppstein — Tomás Maglione

30 May 2026, 18:00, Stadtbahnhof

Eppstein's train station enters into dialogue with a video work by Tomás Maglione. In his practice, Maglione reflects on time, movement, and social hierarchies within the context of mobility. His video shows people waiting — visible only as reflections on the surfaces of passing trains. For Maglione, train stations become symbols of social inequality: while travel signifies status and freedom of movement, those standing at the margins appear to be denied that very freedom and participation.

Hochheim am Main — Mohsen Hazrati

14 June 2026, 16:00, Weinprobierstand am Weiher, Alleestraße 36

On the Hochheim market square, visitors encounter a digital sculpture by Mohsen Hazrati — an AI-driven interactive work rooted in years of research into the many dimensions of wine. From the Baghdad Battery — a mysterious artefact from Iraq in which wine allegedly served as an energy source — to the alchemist Zosimos of Panopolis, wine has long been not merely a pleasure but a tool of knowledge. In Persian poetry, intoxication transcends reason and reveals what is hidden. Hazrati fuses these physical, biological, and spiritual layers into a sculpture that engage and respond to its viewers.

Flörsheim am Main — Lucas LaRochelle

10. July 2026, 18:00, unter der Opelbrücke

For years, Lucas LaRochelle has been developing platforms that collect queer histories through open, democratic processes, building entire archives. Using AI, this archive is transformed into an imaginative and generative source, directing focus toward a utopian vision of future coexistence. For Flörsheim, the distinctive space beneath the Opel Bridge becomes the stage for a performance based on AI-generated texts. The opening performance will be captured using 3D scanning tools, remaining at the site as a digital trace of the live event.

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