Schirn Kunsthalle

All-Inclusive

30 Jan - 04 May 2008

installation view
ALL-INCLUSIVE - A TOURIST WORLD

Tourism has long since become a crucial phenomenon of today’s mobile world society. The traces left by travelers all over the Earth give evidence of a continually growing tourist industry and mark the beginning of a global movement that drastically transforms present-day man and the spaces he passes through. The exhibition “All-Inclusive. A Tourist World,” on show at the Schirn from 30 January to 4 May 2008, presents numerous works depicting and critically questioning various tourist phenomena. Documentations, parodies and defamiliarizations of traditional tourist motifs, and dream images interlink with subjects like migration, tourist industry, and global communication. The project curated by Matthias Ulrich assembles works by about 30 internationally renowned artists such as Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, Ayse Erkmen, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Tracey Moffatt, Jonathan Monk, Santiago Sierra, and Thomas Struth.

Curator: Matthias Ulrich (Schirn)
 

Tags: Ayşe Erkmen, Tracey Moffatt, Jonathan Monk, Santiago Sierra, Thomas Struth, Fischli & Weiss