Current
Grand Opening
Opening of the exhibition Shared Spaces
18. October 2024 – 20. October 2024
Friday, 18.10.24
18:00 Ceremonial opening with greetings from:
Ina Brandes, Minister for Culture and Science NRW
Prof. Dr Birgitta Wolff, Rector of the University of Wuppertal
Matthias Nocke, City Director of the City of Wuppertal
Introduction by Prof Katja Pfeiffer, Initiator & Team Kunsthalle Barmen
and Isabelle Meiffert, curator of the exhibition & Team Kunsthalle Barmen
20:00 Welcome Barmen Banquet by the artist Sonja Alhäuser in the foyer
18-22:00 Hot Cube public luxury by the artist collective Baltic Raw Org on the forecourt
21-22:00 DJ set
22:00 Integrative performance by the artists’ collective common ground
Saturday, 19.10.24
14:00 Opening speech and subsequent guided tour for children and young people, Prof. Katja Pfeiffer and Isabelle Meiffert
15:00 What is the KHB LAB? with the artists and teachers Sebastian Bartel, Katharina Maderthaner, Katja Pfeiffer
17:00 Guided tours of the exhibition with the Kunsthalle team and artists
18:00 Guided tours of the exhibition with the Kunsthalle team and artists
19:00 Integrative performance by the artists’ collective common ground
16-22:00 Hot Cubepublic luxury by the artist collective Baltic Raw Org on the forecourt
Sunday, 20.10.24
14:00 Curator guided tour with Isabelle Meiffert
15:00 What is the KHB LAB? with the artists and teachers Sebastian Bartel, Katharina Maderthaner, Katja Pfeiffer
16-22:00 Hot Cube public luxury by the artist collective Baltic Raw Org on the forecourt
Verissage:
Artist-Talk:
Shared Spaces
Grand Opening 18.-20.10.24
18. October 2024 – 11. January 2025
The inaugural exhibition “Shared Spaces” unites museum space and urban space. The artistic works open up spaces for shared experience and empowerment, creating irritation and encouraging reflection. The exhibition moves between social cohesion and the impression to be thrown back on oneself, between the creation of an identity, speechlessness and the questioning of social norms and rituals. It invites the visitors to discover the strengths of communities and to meet other people in a new way. The invited artists include: Sonja Alhäuser, Francis Alÿs, Baltic Raw Org, Monica Bonvicini, Paul Budniewski, common ground, comp_zero, Antje Engelmann, Heiner Franzen, Ivana Franke, Alfredo Jaar, kinesic, Katerina Matsagkos, Rita McBride, Laure Prouvost, Michael Sailstorfer, Isaac Chong Wai and Raul Walch.
Fig.: Raul Walch, Fountain of knowledge; common ground, Baltic Raw Org, Sonja Alhäuser, Heiner Franzen, Isaac Chong Wei, Antje Engelmann, Alfredo Jaar, 2024
Verissage:
Artist-Talk: