The municipality of Würmla is located in the district Tulln, Lower Austria, approximately 60 km from Vienna.
Between April 2019 and December 2019, Katharina C. Herzog and David Leitner initiated the project Würmlas Wände – urban art on rural walls.
13 farms, silos and cellars were painted, spreading over ten localities throughout the village.
The artworks are based on personal interviews with the owners of the respective walls and tell stories about their daily life in the countryside, about their hopes and dreams as well as the things that occupy and move them.
Würmlas Wände is the attempt to not only encourage a dialogue in-between the villages but also to open up space for interregional discourse, all the while using the medium of urban art. The walls become a meeting point and invite visitors as well as locals to discover the modern as well as the global in the rural.
„Würmlas Wände - Ein Dorf erzählt Geschichten“ (Würmlas Walls - A Village Tells Stories) is available exclusively in form of a limited edition book. 174 pages tell the stories of the 13 villagers and show the resulting art works in Würmla, Lower Austria, in an extensive photo documentation.
