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DRIFT – Shylight, 2006 Aluminium, polierter rostfreier Stahl, Seide, LEDs, Robotik
Aluminum, polished stainless steel, silk, LEDs, robotics
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SIGURD BRONGER - WEARABLES
02.03.2024 – 02.06.2024 | Hollow goose eggs, natural sponges, packaging and balloons with a smiley face – soles of shoes, scientific measuring instruments and his mother’s gallstones: For Norwegian artist Sigurd Bronger, the repertoire of things elevated to jewelry objects knows no bounds. The items are rendered wearable through the artful mechanisms on which they […]
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THE GIFT: STORIES OF GENEROSITY AND VIOLENCE IN ARCHITECTURE
29 FEBRUARY TO 8 SEPTEMBER 2024 | Architectural gifts are everywhere: libraries funded by wealthy philanthropists, shelters donated by humanitarian organizations, farms paid for with development grants, mosques financed by Islamic foundations, and stadiums handed over as part of diplomatic charm offensives. Embedded in religious and imperial traditions of gift-giving, architectural gifts shape the urbanization […]
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100 POSTER BATTLE
13. DECEMBER 2023 – 18. FEBRUARY> 2024 | “100 Days, 100 Posters” – taking this as their motto, some 50 students from Dortmund and Cairo spent a semester exploring the potential of poster design. For them, “The 100 Poster Battle” meant designing a new poster every day, inspired by current events and social debates. The […]
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HOMEPLACE – A LOVE LETTER | ROTUNDENPROJEKT 2023/24
9 DECEMBER 2023 – 25 MARCH 2024 | The rising architects of Matri-Archi(tecture) bring their own and external experiences of life in the diaspora to the Pinakothek der Moderne. They foreground the construction of belonging far from home and the question of identity. For the forthcoming installation “Homeplace”, Matri-Archi(tecture) re-imagines and re-configures the Rotunda as […]
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GLITCH. THE ART OF INTERFERENCE
01. DECEMBER 2023 TO 17. MARCH 2024 | Cracked smartphone displays, distorted images, colourful pixel structures. Only when there is a malfunction is our attention directed to the nature of the technical media that surround us every day, without them, however, being shifted to the forefront. As one of the youngest and most unpredictable art […]
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KIKI SMITH - FROM MY HEART
03 NOVEMBER 2023 – 21 JANUARY 2024 | With its exhibition “From My Heart” the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München honors Kiki Smith’s special birthday on 18 January 2024. The Munich museum has close ties with the New York artist because Smith has been donating since 2015 and continues to donate her entire print oeuvre in editions […]
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MALELADE - GEORG BASELITZ ON HIS 85th BIRTHDAY
31 AUGUST 2023 – 22 OCTOBER 2023 | Rarely do we have the opportunity to peer over the shoulder, so to speak, of a graphic artist at work and witness the creation of a masterpiece we would normally only get to view once the artist has deemed it complete, ready to leave the studio. It […]
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BUILDING TO HEAL: New Architecture for Hospitals
MEDIA CONFERENCE: 11 JULY 2023, 11.00 A.M., IN THE PRESENCE OF CO-CURATOR TANJA C. VOLLMER OPENING: 11 JULY 2023, 07.00 P.M. EXHIBITION DURATION: 12 JULY UNTIL 21 JANUARY 2024 The architectural history of the hospital as a building type is long and complex and, in recent centuries, closely reflects rapid advances in medicine. In the […]
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Ashraf Hannah. SHARARAH
06 July 2023 TO 24 September 2023 | With his installation which was originally created for the Victoria & Albert-Museum in London, ceramic artist Ashraf Hanna (born 1967) references the “Arab Spring”. Part of this political upheaval was the “Egyptian Revolution” which was triggered by the protests on Tahrir Square in Cairo on January 25, […]
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