The City that Doesn't Exist
dal 20/9/2012 al 19/1/2013
Segnalato da
Kader Attia
Stefan Canham
Rufina Wu
Nadia El Fani
Annette Kelm
Aglaia Konrad
Till Krause
Michael Krumm
Armin Linke
Daniel Maier-Reimer
Paolo Pellegrin
Michael Schmidt
Wilhelm Schurmann
Maya Schweizer
Lidwien van de Ven
Clemens von Wedemeyer
Annette Wehrmann
Maja Weyermann
Tobias Zielony
David Zink Yi
Brigitte Franzen
Esther Boehle
20/9/2012
The City that Doesn't Exist
Ludwig Forum, Aachen
Images of Global Spaces. Media and social processes are continually changing our world and creating new, 'in-between' spaces, spaces where any distinction between facts and fictions become blurred. The 20 participating photo, film, and video artists present scenes from such places. Works by Kader Attia, Nadia El Fani, Armin Linke, Paolo Pellegrin, Clemens von Wedemeyer, David Zink Yi and others.
Curated by Brigitte Franzen
Assistant Curator: Esther Boehle
The City that Doesn't Exist (Die Stadt, die es nicht gibt) takes visitors to places which raise questions about their own existence. Media and social processes are continually changing our world and creating new, "in-between" spaces, spaces where any distinction between facts and fictions become blurred. Above all photographers but also film and video artists have explored the theme of "worldwide" in recent years, challenging our perception of reality. This challenge has focused on the everyday practice of how we consume images in our urban spaces and the news images reaching us from seemingly every point on the globe. We believe that we know these places, and yet time and again their remoteness takes us by surprise and fascinates.
The 20 participating photo, film, and video artists present scenes from such places. The imaginary map of the exhibition extends from the town of Kohlscheid on the periphery of Aachen to Beijing, from Cairo to Peru, and from Berlin to Chandigarh. And in between we have Naples, Amsterdam, Fukushima, Hong Kong, Pyongyang, Marseille, and Bratislava. The result is a mosaic of imaginary and real terrains which ultimately form and visually reproduce our world. In the process, it becomes clear that our conception of the world is composed of diverse structural, social, political, and cultural parameters. It simply cannot do without images which satisfy our intellectual and visual curiosity for the 'other' and people in other places.
Artists: Kader Attia, Stefan Canham, Nadia El Fani, Annette Kelm, Aglaia Konrad, Till Krause, Michael Krumm, Armin Linke, Daniel Maier-Reimer, Paolo Pellegrin, Michael Schmidt, Wilhelm Schürmann, Maya Schweizer, Lidwien van de Ven, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Annette Wehrmann, Maja Weyermann, Rufina Wu, Tobias Zielony, David Zink Yi
Sponsored by: Kunststiftung NRW, AachenMünchener, Freunde des Ludwig Forums für Internationale Kunst e.V., Peter und Irene Ludwig Stiftung. Partners: plan 12, WDR 3
Image: Armin Linke, Thongil Street, Pyongyang North Korea, 2005, Courtesy Galerie Klosterfelde
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Opening: Friday, September 21, 8pm
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