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Still from Asta Gröting's video work Things (2018): an octopus floating against a blue sky

Upper BelvedereLandstraße

CARLONE CONTEMPORARY: Asta Gröting. Things

Now showing24 September 2026 – 29 March 2027€23

Asta Gröting's video installation sends deformed everyday objects floating in slow motion through a deep blue summer sky, shown in the Upper Belvedere's Carlone Hall.

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An octopus sails up into a deep blue summer sky in slow motion, hangs there, and drifts back down. Fifteen other things take the same trip, among them a glove, bread, a lemon, a bone, milk, a model carriage and a single gladiola.

Things is one video by the Berlin artist Asta Gröting, 6 minutes 32 seconds long with sound, filmed from below, and each object deforms strangely as it flies. You stand in the Carlone Hall waiting to see what gets thrown next, while the Baroque ceiling fresco of Apollo and Diana's sky hangs above the filmed one. It's the first video in the hall's CARLONE CONTEMPORARY series.

When the Berlin gallery carlier | gebauer showed it in 2019, it said the work's "languid intensity borders on the comedic". It's a short stop, included in the €23 Upper Belvedere ticket, which is booked by time slot.

Look for

  • The octopus

    Look for it floating against plain blue sky: it's the still the Belvedere chose to announce the show.

  • The glove

    The most ordinary thing in the line-up, launched upward and floating back down in the same slow motion as the octopus.

  • The ceiling

    Look up from the screen at Carlone's fresco of Apollo and Diana: a painted Baroque sky that the video's flying objects now cross.

Good for

  • An Hour Or Less
  • Locals Who've Seen It All

Skip if

You want objects or paintings: the whole show is one six-and-a-half-minute video.

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