Making an Exhibition: Routes of Materials
Symposium on Sustainable Exhibition Making
Chair of History of Architecture and Curatorial Practice, Prof. Andres Lepik and Chair of Urban Design, Prof. Benedikt Boucsein
At Architekturmuseum der TUM, third room
Exhibitions reflect and test reality. Projects become public through exhibited mock-ups before their copies are built, sometimes on a global scale. Art questions everyday life through physical installations. Today, new and old materials are tested through exhibition-making, which in a prototypical sense is less harmful than their immediate use on building sites. Discourses are promoted through visual arrangements in galleries and museums, where art merges with architecture and architecture with science in search of answers to the Anthropocene. At the intersection of disciplines, we are experiencing a unique opportunity to invent responses to the present: ecological, but also political, sociological and aesthetic. Exhibitions help as laboratories. In this mix of tendencies, expertise is blurred. What are the advantages of working with reused materials, with prototypes, of allowing exhibits to travel or not? In technical terms: What can we learn from standards and numbers, and how do systematisation, cataloguing and different forms of archiving contribute to sustainability? Or conceptually: Is there a place for ultimate curatorial freedom, and how can we introduce new aesthetics that are sustainable but not dogmatic? A balance between demands and outputs is essential. Can we achieve specific alchemies of sustainability for singular cases? Finally, what are the rewards of a circular economy, and how radical can we get with common taste and familiar forms of representation, production and profit-making? What can we learn by talking to the immediate environment of the Kunstareal, Munich and Germany? These and many other questions will be discussed in interactive talks on 27 June at the Architekturmuseum der TUM together with representatives from Haus der Kunst, Lenbachhaus, Deutsches Museum, Die Neue Sammlung, Münchener Biennale, treibgut, PlanTreff, Jüdisches Museum Berlin, SUMMACUMFEMMER, Constructlab Berlin and Concular.
We look forward to your presence and contributions!
Registration: anmeldung@architekturmuseum.de, limited number of seats.
With the support of:
Stiftung Pinakothek der Moderne
PIN. Freunde der Pinakothek der Moderne
Bayerische Architektenkammer
Martin Schnitzer, Schnitzer&
