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29 March 2017
PRESS RELEASE
For the Skulptur Projekte 2017, thirty-five new artworks are being realized in the urban space of Münster. International artists have been invited to investigate the relationship between art, the public space and the urban environment and develop new place-specific works. In the period from 10 June to 1 October 2017, familiar places will take on a new character and unexpected perspectives will open up. Accustomed paths will lead to the unknown, and new goals will require the treading of unaccustomed paths. This is where the Skulptur Projekte’s art mediation programme comes in: it will create communicative situations and trigger processes allowing the perception of changes and a change of perceptions. It will help visitors find the unfamiliar in the seemingly familiar – and put it into words. On Wednesday (29 March 2017), Ingrid Fisch, the head of art mediation at the Skulptur Projekte 2017, Stefanie Bringezu and Anna-Lena Treese introduced the mediation programme’s concept and various formats. Britta Peters and Marianne Wagner, who along with Kasper König form the Skulptur Projekte’s curatorial team, welcomed the project-oriented art mediation programme and underscored its relevance: “As an integral element of the exhibition, the concept of the mediation programme is based on the Skulptur Projekte’s very specific situation in the urban space of Münster”, Marianne Wagner pointed out. Ingrid Fisch emphasized the general dialogical approach: “We’ve been accompanying the project development from the very start, talking to the artists in the process, and this enables us to address the individual artworks in a very targeted manner. What’s important to us is to create a dialogical situation in our mediation formats. This way, we can foreground the visitors’ personal and subjective experience of the works. And we can question and negotiate existing hierarchies and claims to ‘the right’ interpretation.” The press conference took place at the Trafostation, an old transformer building in the Münster city centre. This summer, the station – formerly home to two large voltage transformers – will serve as one of two central art mediation venues (the other being the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur). Its interior will offer a framework for the continuation and transformation of the pre-exhibition experience. Here visitors will have an opportunity to expand on their own ideas and translate them into artistic praxis. Open daily, it will be a place to come for
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2/4 visitors of all ages interested in engaging with others on the Skulptur Projekte. Workshops for school groups, children, teens and adults will take place here, as will further training courses and conferences. The Kiepenkerlviertel association is supporting the Trafostation as an art mediation venue. The people of Münster and their guests from all over the world are invited to engage in dialogue at eye level and discuss the interplay between art, the public space, and how they are perceived. Public tours The public tours are intended for the people of Münster and their guests. Every week, 13 tours for 16 participants each will take place in German alone; on the weekends they will be enhanced by tours in other languages. Thanks to support from Brillux GmbH & Co. KG, the Skulptur Projekte will be offering altogether 320 tours free of charge. In keeping with the principle of inclusion, the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL) will offer guided tours for persons with disabilities. The association will take over half the cost of previously booked barrier-free group tours. These groups will pay only 90 EUR instead of 180 EUR for the guided tour. Ten years ago, 70 groups of persons with disabilities took advantage of this offer. A wide spectrum of languages To ensure dialogue from various perspectives, the programme encompasses personally guided and media-based mediation offers in different languages: in addition to German, German sign language and Leichte Sprache (German plain language), these include languages of increasing relevance to Münster such as Arabic, Dari/Farsi, Kurdish and Russian. There will also be offers in German with a multisensory orientation for the blind and visually impaired. And we’ll communicate with our guests from abroad in English, French and Dutch. In addition to the free public tours, a wide range of workshops will also take place over the course of the Skulptur Projekte. A special art mediation programme, likewise free of charge, has been developed for school classes. The “Skulptur Projekte Workshops” The “Skulptur Projekte Workshops” offer participants the opportunity to take an in-depth look at one artwork or several in comparison, develop ideas of their own and translate those ideas into artistic praxis. The focus will be on formal and material-aesthetic aspects, the artwork’s relationship to the history and present nature of its location, its relationship to other nearby artworks, its affinity to artworks of past eras, etc. Public workshops for children will take place every Saturday, and during the North Rhine–Westphalian school holidays every morning of the week. Workshops for teens will take place during the school holidays every afternoon. Adults are invited to attend our regular Wednesday evening workshops on changing themes.
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3/4 Offer for school classes This art mediation offer sharpens the awareness of art and the urban space. Threehour workshops will be offered for school groups in German and Leichte Sprache (German plain language) as well as in simple German for international remedial classes. The encounter with art will be closely interwoven with dialogical exchange and artistic praxis to help participants absorb and actively transform the art experience. Thanks to the dedication of Brillux GmbH & Co. KG, the offer is free of charge. As a way of integrating the perceptions and voices of the people of Münster into the Skulptur Projekte mediation programme from the start, long-term participatory projects were already launched far in advance of the actual exhibition in cooperation with regional initiatives and institutions. Cooperation with the Münster Academy of Fine Arts In cooperation with Dr Birgit Engel, a professor of art education at the Münster Academy of Fine Arts, and her colleagues Stefan Hölscher and Stephanie Sczepanek, issues related to art in the public space and its various manifestations were and are discussed. The three members of the academy staff worked with the art mediation team to develop the contents for these offers with a view to the Skulptur Projekte. In the framework of seminars and discussion forums – and with reference to the public collection in the urban space of Münster as well as the 2017 exhibition – students are examining ways of gaining access to contemporary art. In the process, they are developing and testing formats for artistic praxis. Their experiments with mediation will culminate in an art-education weekend for teachers taking place on 7/8 June at the artwork sites and the Trafostation. “Mapping Skulptur Projekte” “Mapping Skulptur Projekte” is a cooperation project in which Münster school pupils from three vocational schools (Ludwig-Erhard-Berufskolleg, Hans-Böckler-Berufskolleg and Anne-Frank-Berufskolleg) who have had to flee their homelands acquainted themselves with the urban space from an aesthetic perspective. For seven months, three international remedial classes explored the city and the Skulptur Projekte. As a way of overcoming language limitations, the groups gathered their impressions in photos, drawings and sound recordings. From 10 June onward, the results will be available free of charge in the form of map sets and on an online platform. In this way the project encourages multivocal dialogue about the exhibition. ...mit unserem Blick [...from our perspective] ...mit unserem Blick is a media-education cooperation project with the Gesamtschule Münster Mitte. Since September 2016, 11 pupils of the 8th form have been investigating the already existing and still emerging art in the urban space of Münster. They are developing photo, film and sound works of their own on a selection of the new projects making up the fifth edition of the Skulptur Projekte. During the exhibition, the pupils’ works will be available by way of the Skulptur Projekte app and website, offering visitors alternative perspectives. The media project is being supported financially through the dedication of the Stiftung der Sparkasse Münsterland Ost.
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4/4 Time Journey to the Skulptur Projekte In the summer semester of 2017, the Skulptur Projekte will host the Münster children’s university. On Friday, 30 June, in the lecture hall of the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, the University of Münster curator Dr Eckhard Kluth will take the junior students on a journey through time. Afterwards the children will participate in workshops in which they each undertake in-depth exploration of an artwork they choose themselves. Please register by e-mail: anmeldung.kinderuni@ uni-muenster.de.
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Save the Dates Press conference: 9 June 2017, 12 noon, Stadtweinhaus Münster Accreditation at www.skulptur-projekte.de/accreditation Opening: 10 June 2017, 5 pm, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur No accreditation required
Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017 – Information 10 June – 1 October 2017 In the summer of 2017, the Skulptur Projekte are taking place in Münster for the fifth time. The large-scale exhibition has been realized at generous ten-year intervals since 1977. The curators of the 2017 Skulptur Projekte are Kasper König as artistic director, Britta Peters and Marianne Wagner. The curatorial team invites international artists to investigate the relationship between art, the public space and the urban environment and develop new place-specific works. The projects realized for the exhibition inscribe themselves into the city’s structural, historical and societal contexts while at the same time pointing beyond them: issues of the global present and reflections on the conception of sculpture are as much a part of the artistic explorations as questions about the relationship between public and private space in times of increasing digitalization and economization. Skulptur Projekte is a cooperative project of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL) and the city of Münster. The LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur organizes the exhibition. The main sponsors are the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Sparkassen Finanzgruppe; further sponsors are the State of North Rhine–Westphalia, the Kunststiftung NRW and Brillux GmbH & Co. KG. www.skulptur-projekte.de
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TRAFOSTATION – A PLACE OF TRANSFORMATION The Trafostation in Schlaunstrasse is a special art mediation venue. In view of its history as home to two large voltage transformers, it has always been a place of transition. The Skulptur Projekte art mediation programme has taken that motif as its point of departure. Throughout the exhibition, it will offer visitors of all ages space not only for reflection, but also for the transformation of what they have experienced into aesthetic praxis. The venue thus corresponds to processes initiated during the 114-day exhibition: Münster changes, familiar places take on a different quality, perspectives shift. A building of industrial character, the Trafostation will be open daily to host a programme of offers for the public and previously registered groups. On weekdays it will accommodate workshops for school groups, on Saturdays and during the school holidays public workshops for children and teens. In the evening, public workshops and events for young adults will take place. Thanks to its location in the direct vicinity of works in the public collection and half way between the city centre and projects in the farther outlying parts of town, the Trafostation is an ideal meeting place. The Kiepenkerlviertel e.V., an association of business owners from the surrounding district, is helping fund the utilization of the Trafostation for the Skulptur Projekte.
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SKULPTUR PROJEKTE 2017 PUBLIC TOURS With its extensive public art mediation programme, the Skulptur Projekte 2017 invites the people of Münster and their guests to engage in dialogue about their perspectives on art in the public realm. Here the focus will be on the personal and subjective experience of the works in the urban environment. To provide a basis for dialogue, the group size will be limited to a maximum of 16 participants. The programme takes the wide spectrum of languages spoken by the SP17 visitors into account: the two-hour public tours will be given not only in German and English but also in German sign language and Leichte Sprache (German plain language), and in languages of increasing relevance to Münster – Arabic, Dari/Farsi, Kurdish and Russian. We’ll also communicate with our guests from abroad in French and Dutch, and there will be offers in German with a multisensory orientation for the blind and visually impaired. The majority of the tours will be carried out on foot – with one exception: there will also be bicycle tours in German. The following public tours will take place over the course of the exhibition: 208 public tours in German 48 public tours in English 16 public tours in French 16 public tours in Dutch 6 public tours in German plain language 5 public tours in German sign language 5 public tours in German with multisensory orientation 4 public tours in Arabic 4 public tours in Kurdish 4 public tours in Dari/Farsi 4 public tours in Russian
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On altogether 320 public tours for 16 persons each, up to 5,120 visitors will have the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the Skulptur Projekte 2017 and share their views about art. Kind support from Brillux GmbH & Co. KG is enabling the Skulptur Projekte to offer the public tours free of charge. The free tours for persons with disabilities are being made possible by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL). GERMAN every Mon – Fri, 6 pm / every Sat & Sun 11 am and 4 pm (2 groups at each time) GERMAN SIGN LANGUAGE Sat, 24 Jun, 15 Jul, 05 Aug, 26 Aug, 16 Sep, 11 am on each date LEICHTE SPRACHE (GERMAN PLAIN LANGUAGE) Sat, 17 Jun, 08 Jul, 29 Jul, 19 Aug, 09 Sep, 30 Sep, 11 am on each date GERMAN, MULTISENSORY Sat, 01 Jul, 22 Jul, 12 Aug, 02 Sep, 23 Sep, 11 am on each date ENGLISH every Fri, 6 pm, every Sat & Sun, 4 pm DUTCH every Sat, 4 pm FRENCH every Sun, 11 am ARABIC Sun, 18 Jun, 16 Jul, 13 Aug, 10 Sep, 4 pm on each date FARSI/DARI Sun, 25 Jun, 23 Jul, 20 Aug, 17 Sep, 4 pm on each date KURDISH Sun, 02 Jul, 30 Jul, 27 Aug, 24 Sep, 4 pm on each date RUSSIAN Sun, 09 Jul, 06 Aug, 03 Sep, 01 Oct, 4 pm on each date
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EDUCATIONAL OFFER FOR SCHOOL GROUPS The art mediation offer for school classes creates situations and initiates processes that heighten the participants’ awareness of art and the urban space and give them scope to reflect on it. In three-hour workshops the participating pupils can explore one Skulptur Projekte project – or two in comparison – in depth. In their encounter with the work or works, they’ll investigate artistic issues, the form-finding process, material and techniques, while at the same time using those aspects as a basis for developing ideas and projects of their own. The workshops will abolish the traditional distinction between the reception and praxis of art. The encounter with art will be closely interwoven with dialogical exchange and artistic praxis to help participants absorb and actively transform the art experience. Artistic methods and strategies such as mapping or aesthetic research will already come into play in the process of gaining access to art. The Trafostation and the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur studio will offer a refuge and laboratory for material-intensive practical experimentation. The workshops are intended for school groups of all school types from the 1st to the 12th form, primarily from Münster and North Rhine–Westphalia. They will be offered in German and Leichte Sprache (German plain language), and if necessary in simple German for international remedial classes. Altogether 12 workshops can be carried out every school day, and a total of 576 during the exhibition. As up to 18 pupils can take part in each workshop, the offer has the potential to reach up to 10,368 pupils. Thanks to the dedication of Brillux GmbH & Co. KG, the offer for school classes is free of charge.
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PROGRAMME FOR CHILDREN AND TEENS ON WEEKENDS AND DURING SCHOOL HOLIDAYS In addition to the educational offers for school groups, the Skulptur Projekte art mediation team will also offer an extensive public programme of leisure-time workshops for children and teens. Three-hour, age-group-specific workshops will offer participants the opportunity for intensive exploration of one Skulptur Projekte project, several projects in comparison, or overarching themes such as the experience of body, time and space. The focus will be on aspects of form and material, the artwork’s relationship to its location and to other artworks located nearby, its affinity to artworks of past eras, etc. The starting point is always the direct encounter with the work and the shared experience of it. This encounter will take place in the context of experiments with artistic praxis, for which a special art mediation venue – the Trafostation – will serve as a laboratory and a stage. The public workshops for children will take place every Saturday morning while school is in progress in North Rhine–Westphalia, and during the school holidays every morning of the week. Workshops for teens will take place during the school holidays every afternoon. There will be 11 workshops on weekends while school is in progress, and 76 during the school holidays. As each workshop can accommodate up to 16 participants, altogether 1,392 children and teens can take part.
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INCLUSION: OFFERS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES Inclusion means belonging: the Skulptur Projekte art mediation team is taking this concept literally and offering tours in many languages to spark dialogues about art. Among other things, the programme encompasses free public tours in Leichte Sprache (German plain language), German sign language, and German with a multisensory orientation. It explicitly seeks to initiate exchange on the various perspectives of the city’s residents – those already interested in art and those for whom art exhibitions have hitherto been uncharted terrain. In addition to discussion about the projects, the tours will also make use of various activation methods. The participants will gain access to the art and surrounding space both artistically and by way of the different senses. To this end, the group size will be limited. In addition to the costs of the free public offers, the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL) is taking over half the costs of the previously arranged tours in the abovementioned languages. The LWL is also communicating these offers directly to associations and institutions. Groups, for example of persons with disabilities who live on their own or in supervised residential groups, persons working in sheltered workshops, children in day-care centres and remedial schools, etc. pay only 90 instead of 180 euros for the guided tour. On booked tours in sign language, a spoken-language interpreter will be available for participants who do not know sign language. The association is also supporting the communication with maps providing information about ground conditions, bus stops, barrier-free restrooms, etc. For the individual exploration of the exhibition, an orientation tool in the form of an app is being developed, and designed for inclusive use. Further information, also in Leichte Sprache, is available at www.lwl-sp17.de.
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...MIT UNSEREM BLICK [...FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE] ...mit unserem Blick [...from our perspective] is the title of a media-education cooperation project between the Skulptur Projekte art mediation team and the Gesamtschule Münster Mitte. Since September 2016, 11 pupils of the 8th form have been developing their own perspectives on the emerging SP17 projects. The group began by acquainting themselves with artworks in the public collection in Münster’s urban space with the help of the aesthetic research method. The focus here was on heightening the participants’ awareness of how the works and their locations address the various senses. In addition to visual impressions, the pupils collected sounds, smells and objects as well as tactile impressions of surfaces. Also during that phase, with support from the Jugend e.V. association film library, the pupils were introduced to the use of various media as an aid in reflecting on their perceptions and artistically developing their own ideas about the works and sites. For example, they learned how to use photo cameras, video cameras and recording devices as well as the respective editing programmes. In this context they produced sound and photo collages and animations and interviewed people of Münster on the subject of the Skulptur Projekte. Since the beginning of 2017, now in small groups, the pupils have been devoting themselves intensively to a selection of the projects to be featured in the coming exhibition, and investigating the future project sites. They develop ideas of their own and produce photo, film and sound works giving expression to their personal viewpoints and interests. During the exhibition, these works will be available via the SP17 app and website, and will enrich the visitors’ perceptions of the Skulptur Projekte with additional perspectives.
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MAPPING SKULPTUR PROJEKTE Mapping Skulptur Projekte is a project being carried out in cooperation with three vocational schools: the Hans-Böckler-Berufskolleg, the Anne-Frank-Berufskolleg and the Ludwig-Erhard-Berufskolleg. For seven months, three international remedial classes – made up primarily of pupils between the ages of 16 and 20 who have had to flee their homelands – explored the city and the Skulptur Projekte. As a way of overcoming language limitations, the groups gathered their individual impressions in photos, drawings and sound recordings, which they then sorted and compiled. Mapping is used by many disciplines as a process-oriented method of studying people’s movement and perception in specific places. In art education it is used to support spatial perception and aesthetic expression. Particularly when command of the language is limited, people use pictures and pictorial memory for orientation. In this context, the perception of a city’s ‘vital arteries’ plays an especially important role for young people. For many of the participating pupils, Münster is the most recent of several stops along their immigration route. How do they gain access to the city? What role do the Skulptur Projekte locations play in this process, and what sights and scenes stick in the young people’s memories? Here the means of expression differ widely. For the work with linguistically heterogeneous groups, methods were favoured that explicitly encourage participants to produce their own images. Starting on 10 June, the results will be available free of charge to all Skulptur Projekte visitors in the form of map sets and a blog. The blog will offer the maps and a number of audio files containing the participants’ impressions and site descriptions as a data package for downloading. The young people’s perspectives will serve as a means of introducing visitors to the public collection and offer them a new orientation for exploring Münster. The project began in October 2016 and will end before the Easter holidays in April 2017.
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Dank an / Thanks to Bischöfliches Priesterseminar Borromäum gantert + wiemeler ingenieurplanung Goethe Institut Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen Phase One A/S R. Horstmann Vermögensverwaltung
