In around 1900 the Vienna Secession developed the technique of the »decoration of surfaces« in order to reach out into the surrounding space from the flatness of the wall. Gustav Klimt's Beethoven Frieze (1902) formed the point of departure for painting's movement away from the canvas and out into space (Ill.), a development that was taken even further by the Dutch group de Stijl twenty years later. Mondrian's famous design for Ida Bienert's salon (1926), has been reconstructed for this exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler and visitors can go inside it. Monumental installations especially created by Sol LeWitt and Daniel Buren continue this adventure of space-encompassing painting. At the end of the exhibition, visitors find themselves amidst a computer-animated video installation by the Viennese artist Peter Kogler (Ill.) Klimt and Kogler, decorative painting in space and digital cyberspace, are important poles in this exhibition.