Bildung und Vermittlung, Education and Mediation

SPECIAL GUIDED TOUR: ART IN EVERY CORNER

Thursday, Dec 5, 2024, 5 pm – 6 pm

Once a month, art mediator and designer Roland Knieg invites visitors on a tour focussing on the interventions in the Fridericianum. As part of the Interventions series, artists develop site-specific works for the Fridericianum that – beyond the regular exhibition spaces – activate, accentuate or transform the previously unused intermediate areas and circulation areas of the building. These installations include wall paintings, outdoor sculptures and sound installations that remain in the building for a longer period of time or even permanently.

The Fridericianum presents MIMIKRY by Kerstin Brätsch, the most recent work in its series of interventions. Specially developed for the rotunda at the heart of the kunsthalle, the complex, expansive installation by this Hamburg-born artist forms the new surroundings of the café located there. It follows café installations realized by Brätsch at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2019 and the LUMA Foundation in Arles in 2021.

MIMIKRY reflects a piece of Earth’s history whose colossal dimensions form the scarcely comprehensible context of human existence. Rocks, sediments, and fossils become a functional part of the café’s interior as wallpaper, window curtains, translucent room dividers, and sculptural tables. The past is pulled into the present—an impression reinforced by numerous depictions of dinosaurs.

Participation fee: 3 Euro
No registration required
Language: German