MUSEUMSBAUHÜTTE (MUSEUM WORKSHOP). TWELVE ARTISTIC MUSEUMS AND MUSEUM PROJECTS
November 22, 2008 - March 23, 2009
This
exhibition is dedicated to artistic museum projects, which reflect the museum
in a critical, ironic, pensive or joyful way.
Works by
Mohamad-Said
Baalbaki ("Al Burak"), Xinyu Bai
("Das Glücksmuseum"), Anne Hölck
("Tigerkäfig"), J&K ("The Babylon Case - a Time Capsule for our
Civilisation"), Zoltan Kunckel ("Simon-Bolivar-Museum"), Anne Kunz
("Der Floh –
ein kulturgeschichtliches Museum"), Anja Edelmann ("Das Museum der
Gefühle"),
Barbara Müller ("Archiv einer Brache"), Museum der Unerhörten Dinge,
Museum of American Art ("Museum of Modern Art"), Kerstin Schrems
("Einzelausstellung") and Uli Westphal ("Elephas Anthropogenus")
will be shown.
The idea of
the "Museumsbauhütte" goes back to the medieval cathedral workshop, which
combined workshop, planning office and teaching. This form of work organisation
will be used for further development of existing and building of new museums
and create a place this way where scientific, artistic and technological
knowledge is being integrated. While working pragmatically as well as
epistemologically, this workshop will investigate and reflect the social role
of museums in media society. Furthermore, new museum ideas and new forms of
mediation will be developed and tested here.
Curator: Michael Fehr
The accompanying booklet (in German, 40 pages, 3487 KB, PDF file) you can see and
download for free, if you click on the
adjoining illustration.