Conceptual artist Daniel Schürer follows a ‘hospitable’ concept of art, for which he transforms empty shopping arcades, smokehouses, stairwells, hop kilns, railway stations, multi-storey car parks, barracks, stables, publishing houses and much more into vital art venues for a period of time, based on his first art space Via113. The audience permutates from the role of viewer to guests and participants in his interventions; lingering and coming together are the yardsticks of his mostly installative and expansive mixed-media-interventions. These address the public as a monastery, dance floor, restaurant/café/hotel, music club, radio station, publisher or fictitious company, such as the Schürer & Töchter Shipbuilding Company. These temporarily established art spaces or scenarios are used to negotiate social themes ‘such as “nothingness”, “community”, “togetherness” and, associated with this, “togetherness” ‘against each other’, occasionally in words, often playfully,’ writes the artist.