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4/4/2014

Quadriennale Dusseldorf

Different venues, Dusseldorf

Art has always been a mirror of society – yesterday, today, tomorrow. And art- ists have always engaged with the future. Their role has not changed even to- day: to reveal, jolt, stimulate. What future visions do artists evoked? What role is played by the materials they use? Which knowledge can be gleaned from art for today’s gaze into the future? Under the title Beyond Tomorrow thirteen mu- seums, exhibition venues and partner institutions will present from 5 April to 10 August 2014 very different approaches to this common guiding theme. Visitors will experience how stimulating it can be to think about the world of tomorrow and all that has been done throughout cultural history for the sake of a better world. Quadriennale Düsseldorf 2014, the fine arts festival that takes place every four years, will be open itself up to the cityscape this time around, inviting vis- itors to embark on their own personal journey of discovery through the art city of Düsseldorf.

The future as shared theme
“We want to spark visitors’ curiosity about the future and encourage them to envisage what might lie ahead in the years to come”, says Hans-Georg Lohe, Düsseldorf city councillor in charge of cultural affairs and managing director of Quadriennale Düsseldorf 2014, explaining the mission of this edition of the festival. “Each art institution will devote itself to a special aspect of the main theme while at the same time creating substantive links to the other venues.” Reawakening/ Earth/ Transformation/ Progress/ Experiment/ Utopia/ Heaven/ Fire/ Retreat/ Light/ Curiosity – these eleven concepts create individual access points while interweaving the various exhibitions like a web overlaying the art city of Düsseldorf. Some art spaces will focus on a view of the future that entails experimentation, a sense of reawakening, and transformation; other presenta- tions will feature works by artists who saw or see the future as a place of re- treat, fascinated by its darker and more ponderous aspects. Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich, professor of art history and media philosophy at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, developed the thematic concept for the art festival in conjunction with the curators involved. “This is the first time in Germany that so many in- stitutions are joining forces to develop a common leitmotif and to venture a new approach to art mediation”, says Ullrich. Quadriennale Düsseldorf tells stories about tomorrow primarily from the viewpoint of the materials used by artists, demonstrating how strongly human fantasies (of the future) have often revolved around questions of processing and mastering matter. From the exhibits on view, it will be evident that questions about how to deal with pigments, fabrics, elements and materials have preoccupied artists in a similar form throughout the centuries – from the Middle Ages up to the present.

Creating new access points
From April to August 2014, a versatile and lively festival programme will create a number of occasions to engage with the theme of Beyond Tomorrow and to take off on a new discovery tour of Düsseldorf. The first highlight, designed to send a resonant starting signal for Quadriennale Düsseldorf 2014, will be a sound installation on opening night composed by the sound artist Rochus Aust expressly for the art festival, for which he even invented a new musical instru- ment: the Quadraphone. On the rooftops of all the institutions participating in Quadriennale Düsseldorf, musicians will play a “Fanfara Futurista” on this instrument to welcome the whole city to the festival. Numerous further events on the festival programme are designed to take art out of the White Cube and onto the streets – addressing people who may hitherto not have taken much of an interest in art or museums. For just this purpose, Quadriennale Düssel- dorf 2014 will lay innovative trails enticing viewers into the exhibitions. Even before opening day, three expedition teams aged 8 to 80 years will be under way in Düsseldorf trying to track down the answers to questions such as: How do we get to heaven? What’s meant here by retreat? Where does the light guide us? They will be making use of “expedition mobiles” designed by Düsseldorf artists. Curious to learn more about Quadriennale Düsseldorf 2014, they will visit artists, curators and settings and tell of their discoveries and experiences on the Quadriennale blog, on Facebook and on YouTube. Starting in April 2014, visitors to Quadriennale Düsseldorf can then accompany the expedition teams through the exhibitions virtually on mobile guides and get tips and inspira- tion for their own viewing. The project is being conducted by the Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf. As another innovative access point, an urban branding campaign will subject the festival theme to a special artistic treatment. From mid-March 2014, the linking concepts such as Heaven, Earth and Utopia will be showing up all over the city.

Cooperation with Art Cologne
Quadriennale Düsseldorf will be cooperating with Art Cologne for the first time in 2014. “With two such high-calibre events this coming April, the Rhineland will be attracting art-lovers and culture enthusiasts from all over the world”, says Daniel Hug, artistic director of Art Cologne. Düsseldorf Marketing & Tourismus GmbH is of- fering attractive accommodations packages for art associations and culture tourists.

The Quadriennale GmbH
The Quadriennale Düsseldorf is a fine arts festival that has taken place every four years since 2006, in each case for a period of several months. Since 2008 it has been under the responsibility of the Quadriennale GmbH, whose sole shareholder is the State Capital of Düsseldorf. The management team of the Quadriennale GmbH comprises Hans-Georg Lohe and Angela Eckert-Schweizer. Under a jointly developed guiding theme, the city’s foremost art museums, exhibition spaces and galleries conceive unique exhibitions, presentations and an extensive supporting programme. Partners from other sectors are invited to partic- ipate in the festival. The first Quadriennale took place in 2006 under the theme “The Body in Art” (attracting 380,000 visitors), followed in 2010 by “Presence in Art” (250,000 visitors). The guiding theme for the Quadriennale in 2014 is Beyond Tomorrow, for the realisation of which the State Capital of Düsseldorf has set aside a budget of more than four million Euros.

PARTICIPATING MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITION SPACES

Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast | Alchemy and Art – The Mystery of Transformation
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K20 | Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian: The White Abyss of Infinity
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K21 | Beneath the Ground: From Kafka to Kippenberger
KIT – Kunst im Tunnel | Pauline M’barek – Tangible Border
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf | Smart New World
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen | Future Prospects – Les Immatériaux for instance

ADDITIONAL PARTNERS

AKademie-Galerie – Die Neue Sammlung | Tracing the Process of Invention – Sculptors Draw
Filmmuseum Düsseldorf | Visions and Nightmares – The City of the Future on Film
Hetjens-Museum | Clay: An Appeal. Sculpture and Architectural Ceramics 1910– 1930
imai – inter media art institute | The Invisible Force Behind. Materiality in Media Art
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION | Number Eight: STURTEVANT
KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation | Backdoor Fantasies
Langen Foundation | Otto Piene – Inflatables and Sky Event

RESPONSIBILITY
The Quadriennale GmbH, a fully owned subsidiary of the State Capital of Düsseldorf, is responsible for the Quadriennale Düsseldorf fine arts festival.

ADDRESS
Quadriennale GmbH
Zollhof 11
40221 Düsseldorf

MANAGEMENT
Hans-Georg Lohe
Tel: + 49 211 89 930 91
Email: hansgeorg.lohe@duesseldorf.de
Angela Eckert-Schweizer
Tel: + 49 211 89 999 05
Email: eckert-schweizer@quadriennale-duesseldorf.de

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Elke Menikheim
Tel: +49 211 89 999 07
Email: menikheim@quadriennale-duesseldorf.de
Latifa Shangama
Tel: + 49 211 89 999 06
Email: shangama@quadriennale-duesseldorf.de

PRESS CONTACT
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Christina Böhm, Viviana Kleinert
Tel.: +49 211 89 99915
presse@quadriennale-duesseldorf.de

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