The Process… (July 2025 – January 2026)

Frozen Garden
Markus Jeschaunig (2025-2026)
Garden installation and communal dinner

The project explores the potential of local food and vegetable production in winter. It traces lost traditions of local farming in alpine regions within the village of Flachau.

The project ties in with the partly lost practice of farmers’ gardens and critiques the current import-dominated food system in Austria. It aims to revive old knowledge about frost-resistant edible plants and harvest fresh vegetables such as cabbage, lamb’s lettuce, spinach and herbs in winter. The raised bed was planted in July 2025 and will be publicly harvested and eaten during m20d26.

Act 1: The Harvest
Act 2: The Processing,
Act 3: The Dinner

After several month of growing winter vegetables in Flachau, Salzburg (Austria), and exciting public activities at the m20d festival center at Dorfplatz in Flachau, more than 100 people took part in tasting food, that was grown directly at the same site around the corner.

The Menu was created together with chef Evelyn Matejka @franzfischerhuette

The vegetables were grown in cooperation with Katharina from @Tauerngarten / Altenmarkt, the soil was provided by recycled biomass from @TerraAlpin / Werfen, and the food was served by the fabulous team of @m20d and Münster School of Architecture @msa.architecture

Framework: „minus20degree Festival“ in Flachau (Salzburg, Austria).
Link: https://www.m20d.eu/ 

minus20degree is a biennial exhibition of art and architecture. it offers a stage for radical artistic and architectural interventions in the alpine winter landscape and makes them freely accessible to the public. https://www.m20d.eu/

Curated by (after a open Call & Jury process): Theo Deutinger and Marlene Deutinger
Thanks to Gemeinde Flachau, Theo Deutinger & Family, and all who making this project possible.

Photography Festival: (c) Lukas Kobel @mauluegi
Photography process: (c) Markus Jeschaunig