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19/2/2015

(im)possible! Artists as architects

MARTa Herford Museum of Art and Design, Herford

For the first time, realised buildings and spaces, models and designs for possible buildings and utopian ideas and experiments, all of which are designed by creative artists, are presented in a comprehensive overview exhibition.

Marta Herford is a living example of how architects sometimes think of their buildings as sculptures. But what happens when this perspective is reversed, when artists engage with architecture? In the Marta anniversary year we will be taking a completely new look at these interconnections: can artists as archi-tects be more innovative, radical, provocative when they do not have to worry about building regulations, economic feasibility and investor wishes?

Dreams of (im)possible rooms, drawings of utopian city designs, walk-in space constructions and fictive museums are just some of the fascinating results of such a role reversal. The exhibition presents the whole diversity of artistic border-crossings, and gives several examples taking a look back over the 20th century and thus the beginnings of this intensive exchange of spatial ideas and questions.

The exhibition was realized in collaboration with and according to an idea of Dr. Anne Schloen.

Artists:
Absalon, Vito Acconci, Atelier van Lieshout, Caroline Bayer, Herbert Bayer, Thomas Bayrle, Hans op de Beeck, Dai Goang Chen, Anja Ciupka, Constant, Stephen Craig, Jan De Cock, Theo van Doesburg, Herman Finsterlin, Isa Genzken, Dionisio González, Dan Graham, Beate Gütschow, Wenzel Hablik, Erwin Heerich, Carsten Höller, Walter Jonas, Anish Kapoor, Tamás Kaszás, Tadashi Kawamata, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Gordon Matta Clark, Isa Melsheimer, Heike Mutter / Ulrich Genth, El Lissitzky, Michael Pohl, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Claus Richter, Christine Rusche, Gregor Schneider, Thomas Schütte, Charles Simonds, Monika Sosnowska, Georges Vantongerloo, Johannes Wohnseifer.

Catalogue
We are currently preparing a magazine of around 120 pages for the exhibition with explanatory texts and numerous pictures.

Image: Dionisio González, Nova Heliopolis III, 2007

Press and Public Relations
Sarah Niesel T: +49 (0)52 21/994430 -27, F: +49 (0)52 21/994430-18 presse@marta-herford.de

Opening on Friday, 20 February 2015, 19.30 hrs

Marta Herford
Goebenstr. 2–10 32052 Herford
Hours
Tue – Sun and bank holidays: 11 – 18 Uhr
1st Wed of every month: 11 – 21 Uhr
Admission
Adults: 8 Euro
Concessions: 4,50 Euro
Children under the age of 10 free of charge
Pupils & Students: 4,50 Euro, Tue after 4 pm and every 1st Wed of the month after 6 pm free of charge

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