» Iris Haeussler excluded the possibility to suggest an intimate environment by rebuilding the installation in a museal space. The core of her work, its authenticity, which is guaranteed only by the specific space in which it is installed, would be lost in such a staged construction. Haeussler once mentioned "Entire neighborhoods participate to create my work". But these cannot be relocated into the museum. Thus she chose a different form of presentation: documenting the three city-projects in showcases. [...] they demonstrate that the originals existed in Vienna, Munich and Milano, and only there were they authentic. Such authenticity cannot be recreated, whatever efforts the museum would want to expend. When Iris Haeussler abstains from such a staged production, she makes the gap between the local authenticity of the installations and their later exhibition the actual theme of the presentation. Thus the showcases do not deal only with Vienna, Munich and Milano, above all they are about a transformation that secures a possible existence of site-specifc art in museal spaces. «

Dr. Martina Fuchs (1993), Mögliche Existenzen, in: z.B. Skulptur, catalogue