THE SCULPTURE PROJECTS ARCHIVE
Potential and Perspectives
2013.3.19 - 20
LWL-Landeshaus
Inaugurated in 1977 by Klaus Bussmann and Kasper König, the Sculpture Projects Münster are today considered one of the most influential contemporary art exhibitions the world over. The projects have functioned as a "long-term study" of the complex relationship between art and the public realm, the four Sculpture Projects staged since the 1970s have become an international art scene benchmark, inspiring a plethora of similar formats.
Four years ahead of the fifth exhibition in 2017, the conference "The sculpture projects Archive. Potentials and Perspectives" will shine a light on the sculpture projects archive in a bid to trace the concept's history and explore pioneering ways of presenting art in the public realm going forwards. The potential afforded by the archive will serve as a basis to kick-start a debate on new themes in the public perception of art.
Concept and management:
Melanie Bono (Assistant Director and Curator for Contemporary Art at
LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster)
in association with Münster Art Academy:
Prof. Claudia Blümle, Prof. Georg Imdahl and Prof. Gerd Blum
Symposium 02
"Building Better Cities? Art and Urban Planning"
2013.9.13 - 14
On the occasion of Tobias Rehberger´s project „the moon in alabama“: In the area around Muenster´s central train station, the artist´s work transforms groups of distribution boxes into new public spaces.
Building better Cities? During the Symposium 01 at the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur in March 2013, the utilization of a sculpture project archive for the revaluation of art and its public reception was successfully discussed. If and to what extent the discussion of art and contemporary artistic strategies can be successfully utilized in city planning concepts is the topic of Symposium 02.
This second symposium recognizes explicitly the independence of an artist´s work and focuses on his individual fascination resulting in the creation of a previously unimagined world of images. Can this production be brought together productively and successfully with the process of urban development? Can the analysis and reflection inherent in artistic practice—the precise observation and critical development of an individual aesthetic—convey new ideas and forms within a similarly functionally thinking and pragmatically engaged process of city planning? Does all this make a „better“ city? In three thematic areas and over two days, experts from the visual arts, city planning and research, and the social sciences will discuss current ideas and debate prospective viewpoints on city planning in dialog with approaches to contemporary art.
Day One begins with a site visit to Tobias Rehberger's work in the central station area and addresses the claim formulated in the symposium's title „Building Better Cities?“—both as a global claim for city planning and discussion model for the City of Muenster.
Day Two will focus on relevant artistic working
principals in this context. The morning block
„Research“ will analyse the synergetic
potential of art-specific practice for city
planning. The afternoon block „Process“
concentrates on the dynamic of city
development and asks, how and with
which ramifications is art still capable of intervening? The symposium's aim is to openly consider the possibilities and simultaneously the necessity for new thinking regarding art and its role in shaping a city.
Participants: Frauke Burgdorff, Hedwig Fijen, Martin Heller, Leni Hoffmann, Kasper König, Maik Löbbert, Reiner Nagel, Manfred Pernice, Tobias Rehberger, Tim Rieniets, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Christoph Schenker, Thomas Sieverts, Andreas Spiegl, Philip Ursprung, Lambert Wiesing and others.
Organizer: Immobilien- und Standortgemeinschaft Bahnhofsviertel e.V. (ISG) and the City of Muenster
Concept: Dr. Gail Kirkpatrick (Director, Kunsthalle Münster) and Marcus Lütkemeyer (Project Curator) in collaboration with Frauke Burgdorff (Board Member, Montag Stiftung Urbane Räume) and Tim Rieniets (Executive Director, Landesinitiative StadtBauKultur NRW).
2017 will see the fifth edition of the Sculpture Projects Münster, which continues to be the most renowned international event devoted to art in public spaces. Thanks to it, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur and the City of Münster reflect upon almost 40 years of solid local expertise in the field. By way of various joint activities they seek to consolidate this knowledge, revive the bedrock of insights and ensure their enduring presence – beyond the 10-year rhythm of the Sculpture Projects.
The topic of art and public space continues to remain highly relevant, be it in the form of urban sculptures or landscape interventions, setting up areas for social activity or transforming erstwhile functional locations. Not only among art experts, but also as an everyday experience for the inhabitants and citizens of our modern cities.
Down through almost five decades now, the City of Münster has gathered a wealth of expertise on art and public space. The topic has to date been reflected in many facets both in the city itself and its public persona, starting with the question of developing a long-term view of art in the public domain. At the same time, held every ten years the Sculpture Projects attract immense attention among that section of the German and international public interested in art.
The new joint activities in the city, which explore the topic "Münster. Art + Public Space", are destined to maximize and, above all, build on what has already been achieved. They draw on the accumulated (or rather acquired) know-how and experience (for example, as with the current idea of establishing an archive), while at the same time by initiating new smaller and larger, and above all ongoing projects in the public domain, consistently embedding a heightened awareness of this exciting and explosive theme in the city itself and in its public image.
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