Charlotte Moth
15 Nov - 14 Dec 2014
CHARLOTTE MOTH
The story of a different thought
15 November - 14 December 2014
Curator: Lorenzo Benedetti
Marl – a Ruhr city as an urban utopia? Inspired by the now legendary 1950s urban planning project in Marl, British artist Charlotte Mothʼs new film The story of a different thought (2014) explores the secrets and shortcomings of an architectural Gesamtkunstwerk and the many stories entwined within this “modernism indebted” building complex. The film was made as part of the Production Grant given by the Kunstproduzenten, Cologne, marking the first of its grants to a young, German or international artist in the field of electronic and digital media.
Institutional partners 2013/2014 are the Dutch art foundation De Vleeshal, Middelburg, and the Glaskasten Marl Sculpture Museum. In 1957, a competition was held to overhaul the city centre in Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia, a once prosperous Ruhr city. The Rotterdam architectural office Van den Broek and Bakema won the competition, beating out prestigious colleagues such as Alvar Aalto, Arne Jacobsen, Hans Scharoun and Rudolf Schwarz with a radical, now seemingly utopian design. They proposed a highly experimental and risky project that integrated both the latest technologies and materials, reflecting on the economic growth of the city in many ways: a building complex was realised with a floating roof structure, and towers with office floors suspended externally from the top down.
The story of a different thought is a collage of photographic, cinematic, archival and scientific materials that conjure associations with various documentary, artistic or poetic roots, interlinked with universal principles of “flotation and suspension”. The development of conversations with architect Rebecca Loewen of DIN projects in Winnipeg, Canada and Texan writer and poet Joshua Edwards form important tangents in the thinking process surrounding the discoveries and mysteries of Marl as a site.
Charlotte Moth was born 1978 in Carshalton/UK and lives in Paris. She is currently writing her PhD at Royal College of Art and teaching at Goldsmiths College, London. Moth has studied at Slade School of Art, London (M.F.A.) and was researcher in Fine Art at Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht/NL. Grants (selected): 2013 Les Ateliers des Arques/F; 2012 Fieldwork Marfa/USA; Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart/D; 2011 Fondation Serralves, Porto/PL; 2007 Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Exhibition (selected): 2014 MAC/VAL Musée dʼArt Contemporain du Valde-Marne; 2013 European Kunsthalle/Kunsthaus Bregenz/AT; Triennale Fellbach/D; GAK, Bremen/D; 2012 Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva/CH; 2011 Musée Départemental dʼArt Contemporain, Rochechouart/F; Kunsthalle Basel/CH; 2010 Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg/D; 2009 FormContent, London; 2008 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; 2007 Project, Dublin.
A story of a different thought is produced and commissioned by Die Kunstproduzenten in cooperation with SBKM/De Vleeshal, Middelburg/NL and Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl Funded and supported by / Media partner: Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Bezirksregierung Cologne, Kulturamt der Stadt Cologne, Kunststiftung NRW, SK Stiftung Kultur and Art Cologne / StadtRevue, Cologne. An Initiative by SK Stiftung Kultur der Sparkasse KölnBonn.
The story of a different thought
15 November - 14 December 2014
Curator: Lorenzo Benedetti
Marl – a Ruhr city as an urban utopia? Inspired by the now legendary 1950s urban planning project in Marl, British artist Charlotte Mothʼs new film The story of a different thought (2014) explores the secrets and shortcomings of an architectural Gesamtkunstwerk and the many stories entwined within this “modernism indebted” building complex. The film was made as part of the Production Grant given by the Kunstproduzenten, Cologne, marking the first of its grants to a young, German or international artist in the field of electronic and digital media.
Institutional partners 2013/2014 are the Dutch art foundation De Vleeshal, Middelburg, and the Glaskasten Marl Sculpture Museum. In 1957, a competition was held to overhaul the city centre in Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia, a once prosperous Ruhr city. The Rotterdam architectural office Van den Broek and Bakema won the competition, beating out prestigious colleagues such as Alvar Aalto, Arne Jacobsen, Hans Scharoun and Rudolf Schwarz with a radical, now seemingly utopian design. They proposed a highly experimental and risky project that integrated both the latest technologies and materials, reflecting on the economic growth of the city in many ways: a building complex was realised with a floating roof structure, and towers with office floors suspended externally from the top down.
The story of a different thought is a collage of photographic, cinematic, archival and scientific materials that conjure associations with various documentary, artistic or poetic roots, interlinked with universal principles of “flotation and suspension”. The development of conversations with architect Rebecca Loewen of DIN projects in Winnipeg, Canada and Texan writer and poet Joshua Edwards form important tangents in the thinking process surrounding the discoveries and mysteries of Marl as a site.
Charlotte Moth was born 1978 in Carshalton/UK and lives in Paris. She is currently writing her PhD at Royal College of Art and teaching at Goldsmiths College, London. Moth has studied at Slade School of Art, London (M.F.A.) and was researcher in Fine Art at Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht/NL. Grants (selected): 2013 Les Ateliers des Arques/F; 2012 Fieldwork Marfa/USA; Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart/D; 2011 Fondation Serralves, Porto/PL; 2007 Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Exhibition (selected): 2014 MAC/VAL Musée dʼArt Contemporain du Valde-Marne; 2013 European Kunsthalle/Kunsthaus Bregenz/AT; Triennale Fellbach/D; GAK, Bremen/D; 2012 Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva/CH; 2011 Musée Départemental dʼArt Contemporain, Rochechouart/F; Kunsthalle Basel/CH; 2010 Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg/D; 2009 FormContent, London; 2008 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; 2007 Project, Dublin.
A story of a different thought is produced and commissioned by Die Kunstproduzenten in cooperation with SBKM/De Vleeshal, Middelburg/NL and Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl Funded and supported by / Media partner: Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Bezirksregierung Cologne, Kulturamt der Stadt Cologne, Kunststiftung NRW, SK Stiftung Kultur and Art Cologne / StadtRevue, Cologne. An Initiative by SK Stiftung Kultur der Sparkasse KölnBonn.