Die Brücke Der Zwei Wege
Estherházy Castle in Eisenstadt, Austria
From December 2025

Kasia Fudakowski’s Die Brücke der zwei Wege (The Bridge of Two Paths, 2025) is a site-specific bridge separating in the center, designed to invite visitors to experience a moment of distance, contemplation, and reflection near the Leopoldinentempel in Schlosspark Eisenstadt, Austria.

The railings of this functional sculpture contains individual metal hands that appear to pick the bars as though they were plants or pluck them as though they were the strings of a harp. Through this gesture, the work enters into dialogue with the flowing water below, whose cascades become subtly orchestrated into a musical composition. This playful detail is also embodied by Erato, the muse of love poetry, whose attribute is the lyre, which she plays by gently plucking its strings with her fingers.

At the same time, the multitude of hands evokes the dedication and continuous horticultural labor that have shaped, and continue to sustain, the Orangery’s productive gardens, botanical collections, and the surrounding landscape park. Their abundance and beauty are the result of more than two centuries of careful cultivation and stewardship.

Finally, when viewed from above, the bridge itself also takes the form of an eye. It functions as a viewing platform overlooking the park while also echoing the neoclassical north towers of Esterházy Palace on the same estate, whose distinctive openings similarly frame and direct the gaze. In this way, the bridge becomes both an instrument of observation and an object that reflects on the act of looking itself.

Photo by  Lisa Schulcz