Moss Helmet, Schwanenplatz, Regensburg
With Moss Helmet, Markus Jeschaunig creates a sheltered retreat within Regensburg’s urban landscape. The walk-in, helmet-shaped shell structure made of mosses and ferns forms a compact microcosm—a “Forest to go” right in the heart of the city.
Upon entering the installation, one’s perception shifts: the scent of the forest fills the air, the temperature feels noticeably cooler, and the atmosphere is denser and calmer. In a minimal space, an intense micro-forest experience emerges, making nature sensually tangible where it is otherwise scarcely present.
Moss Helmet responds directly to the conditions of the heavily paved city center and makes the importance of green spaces in the context of heat and climate change immediately tangible. The installation thus becomes a place for rest, cooling off, and raising awareness of ecological interconnections in the urban environment.
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Markus Jeschaunig, Graz
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Markus Jeschaunig, born in Graz in 1982, is an internationally active artist, architect, and researcher who works at the intersection of art, ecology, and technology. Inspired by the complex interactions between the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere, he develops projects that make natural processes visible and open up new perspectives on the relationship between humans and the environment.
His work navigates the tension between landscape, architecture, and public space - often with an activist agenda. In this context, Jeschaunig understands art not merely as an aesthetic practice, but as a tool for making ecological interconnections tangible and for initiating processes of social transformation.
Jeschaunig studied art and architecture in Linz, Istanbul, and Vienna, and earned his degree in architecture from the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz in 2010. In 2012, he founded his own practice under the name agency in biosphere, where he combines artistic research with ecological design. As a participant in the Club of Rome’s Change Course Conference and co-founder of the transdisciplinary think tank Breathe Earth Collective, Jeschaunig also contributes his work to international discourses on climate, urban development, and sustainability.
A major milestone in his career was his involvement in the Austrian Pavilion project, breathe.austria, at Expo 2015 in Milan, which demonstrated how architecture, climate, and perception can interact.
In his projects, Markus Jeschaunig creates spaces where the environment is not merely observed but physically experienced. His works invite us to perceive the systems around us more consciously - and to rethink our own role within them.
