Models for Tomorrow: Cologne was
the European Kunsthalle’s first exhibition. Twenty-one artists presented
their designs for a new exhibition hall at both extraordinary and ordinary
cultural sites in downtown Cologne. The sketches, planes, and models produced
especially for this exhibition by international artists dealt with two
themes: the architecture for the new exhibition space and concepts for
its possible use. Artists’ pragmatic approaches were shown alongside
works with utopian potential.
During this current phase of its foundation, the European Kunsthalle does
not have its own exhibition space. For Models for Tomorrow: Cologne,
the institution used the urban space with its range of publicly accessible
sites. For the exhibition, a ring-shaped parcours was set up in downtown
Cologne inviting the art audience to walk along its path. The exhibition
venues offered various spatial concepts with varying opening times, representing
commercial or public interests, both highly popular and those existing
on the city’s periphery. The exhibition showed that answers to the
question regarding the future profile of the European Kunsthalle might
already be in the city’s resources: its spaces. Moving toward the
end of this two-year founding stage, the European Kunsthalle used this
exhibition to direct special attention to its specific location and starting
point. |
| Vito Acconci, Michael Beutler, Bik van der
Pol, Andreas Fogarasi, Luca Frei, Liam Gillick, Tue Greenfort, Karl Holmqvist,
International Festival, Erik van Lieshout, An Te Liu, Alex Morrison, Olaf
Nicolai, Tobias Rehberger, Pia Rønicke, Silke Schatz, Sean Snyder,
Superflex, Lawrence Weiner, Axel John Wieder & Jesko Fezer and Haegue
Yang. |
