Kunsthaus Graz

play!

Translocal: Museum as Toolbox

28 Sep - 29 Oct 2017

"play!", exhibition view,
Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
"play!", exhibition view,
Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
"play!", exhibition view,
Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
"play!", exhibition view,
Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
"play!", exhibition view,
Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
"play!", exhibition view,
Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
"play!", exhibition view,
Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
"play!", group picture,
f.l.t.r.: Jasmin Edegger, Alexandra Trost, Monika Holzer-Kernbichler , Katrin Bucher Trantow, Keyvan Paydar, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
"play!", exhibition view,
Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
"play!", exhibition view,
Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
PLAY!
Translocal: Museum as Toolbox
28 September - 29 October 2017

play! is an exhibition project by a group of young people at the Kunsthaus Graz. United by an interest in art and the desire to design an exhibition based on our own ideas, we came together last year to think about current themes with the curators and museum educators.

Art and negotiation
Five works formed the starting-point and foundation for our reflections on the situation and scope of this museum site as a space for art and negotiation. We built on concepts such as identity, self–representation, migration and communication. Through play, which formed the basis of several works, these could be combined in a fundamental way with our experimental approach.

In play! we create places of encounter
Encounters between us, space, its rules, its possibilities and the existing artistic and institutional settings. So, for example, we use VIP ́s Union by Haegue Yang and its private furniture lent by Graz residents as a Welcome Zone. Here the residency project by Marcin Polak in Bolzano and Candida Höfer ́s striking architectural photographs examine the issue of real accessibility and the practical use of public space for everyone – beyond consumerism.

Play!
In collaboration with the Ludovico games library and game enthusiasts from all over the world, in Yang ́s cosy, relaxed foyer, play will become a serious invitation to everyone to take a seat, immerse themselves, get to know each other and play together.

Participating artists: Oaza Collective (Maja Kolar und Maša Poljanec), Marcin Polak, Aldo Giannotti, Lasnaidee (Maria Derlõš und Jekaterina Kljutšnik), Luigi Coppola, Josef Bauer, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Candida Höfer, Giulio Paolini, Josef Dabernig, Robert Filliou and much more.

Curated and activated by Lidia Cekic, Jasmin Edegger, Katharina Grabner, Ramona Haderer, Christina Hahn, Keyvan Paydar, Sarah Resch, Valerie Taus, Alexandra Trost, Monika Holzer-Kernbichler and Katrin Bucher Trantow.
Conceived by the museum departments of the Museion Bozen, the Museum Sztuki, Lodz, the Kunsthaus Graz, the MSU Zagreb and the KUMU Tallinn – together with the youth groups concerned. As part of the EU Cooperation Project Museum as Toolbox – Networking Project 2015-2017.
 

Tags: Josef Bauer, Josef Dabernig, Robert Filliou, Aldo Giannotti, Candida Höfer, Giulio Paolini, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Haegue Yang