Opening
Friday, March 7, 6 - 9 pm

Artist talk
Saturday, March 22, 2 pm

An exhibition about the context, materiality and aesthetic experience of sculptural works.

Art is “framed” in its historical, social and political context and is rarely viewed in isolation from it today. The different contexts and the associated framing change perception. [...]

 

At the latest since the transgressions of modernism and the associated detachment from the “old”, art itself has repeatedly redrawn the boundary between art and non-art, while at the same time proclaiming the abolition of this boundary and thus opening up new zones of experience. In this context, can the touching and, above all, the not touching of art be rethought in order to reflect on the contextual meaning? [...]

 

The exhibition D O N ' T   T O U C H ! stages this shift in aesthetic perception in the spatial environment as a down to the ground site and in this (perspectival) way also speculates on the various levels of the context, even beyond the art space and at the same time on the “invisible” artwork as an experience in non-artistic places: the information is rearranged as well as the contexts of meaning, which thus repeatedly emerge in a new form. Does this also mean a de-aestheticization of artistic forms? And does it answer the question of whether this is art here or elsewhere? At the same time, the exhibition speculates with “Leerstellen (interpretational gaps)” about the reception-aesthetics and the role of the viewer, not only in the context of space, but also of absence.

 

DO NOT TOUCH! Nevertheless, the general museum ban also applies to this exhibition. But the diversity of the works on display can illustrate the spiritual experience and how much art touches us without us touching it ...

 

(Text excerpt: Harald F. Theiss)