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How can a contemporary art museum founded in 1951 become relevant today? How can it be a place that uses art to question the circumstances of our present, set people in motion, shift perspectives, challenge the status quo, and reframe questions?

Since 2022, the Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen has been addressing this challenge in an open transformation process with the help of artists Margit Czenki & Christoph Schäfer (parklabyr), Schirin Kretschmann, Harald F. Müller, Gabriela Oberkofler, Antje Schiffers, Tilo Schulz, and Andrea Wolfensberger. This multi-year process aims to bring art, society, and the city closer together; connect the place’s specific history with the present; and activate the Morsbroich ensemble’s various parts and functions as a total work of art through greater participation. The projects, realizations, and designs of the “Morsbroich Work-shop” presented in this publication offer a fresh perspective on Morsbroich. They are not utopias or dreams, but rather, sketches of a possible tomorrow.

https://www.verlag-kettler.de/en/books/its-great-when-activated/→

The exhibition focuses on colour not only as a visual phenomenon, but also as a complex medium. Colour has texture; it reflects and creates light; and it resonates with space and surface. It conveys emotions, alters atmospheres and carries cultural meanings, symbolic messages and historical traditions. Works by Rupprecht Geiger, Sophie Herz, Erika Hock, Christof John, Zora Kreuzer, Sebastian Kuhn and other artists demonstrate the complexity and potential of colour within their chosen mediums, which range from liquid paint and sewn fabric to coloured glass and neon tubes. The partly site-specific room installations transform the eight skylight halls of the Kunsthalle Nürnberg, inviting visitors to experience the architecture in a new way. This makes it clear that colour is much more than just a surface; it is a substance, a language and a sensory experience all at once.

https://www.kunstkulturquartier.de/kunsthalle→

Works by David Blamey, Matthew Cornford, Schirin Kretschmann

Organised by Doctoral Programme in Fine Arts [FBAUP]

https://dap.fba.up.pt/lado-b/→

Works by Arhun Aksakal, Schirin Kretschmann, Alexandra Leykauf, Lukas Marxt, Martin Schepers, Kathrin Sonntag. Curated by Dr. Pia Wojtys.

The group exhibition Ortsbohrungen is dedicated to the artistic exploration of places – in both a literal and a metaphorical sense. The point of departure is drilling as a metaphor and as an action: as a penetration into layers of space, history, memory, and materiality. The participating artists reflect in their works on the possibilities and conditions of approaching a place. Both invasive gestures and sensitive forms of engagement with the hidden dimensions of a site are examined and addressed.
Rather than occupying places or leaving marks, the works seek connection with their surroundings. They listen, probe, and respond to spatial, social, and historical conditions. In this way, complex engagements with landscapes, architectures, and spaces of memory emerge – dimensions that lie beneath the visible surface. Drawing on Ernst Kapp’s theory of organ projection – the idea that technical tools are projections of the human body – the exhibition asks what is projected in the act of drilling: knowledge, control, injury, but also curiosity and empathy.
Ortsbohrungen understands artistic practice as a persistent questioning and uncovering of hidden or overlooked conditions of places. The exhibition no longer presents spaces as mere objects, but allows them to appear as active and autonomous agents. Künstler*innenhaus Dortmund provides an ideal framework for this: itself a place with many layers – shaped by industrial, social, and cultural histories.

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Works by Joschua Yesni Arnaut, Fabio Baroli, Miriam Cahn, Boris De Beijer, Neckar Doll, Natacha Donzé, Marina Faust, Evgenij Gottfried, Jasmine Gregory, Katharina Grosse, Constantin Hartenstein, Roni Horn, Rindon Johnson, Aneta Kajzer, Julian-Jakob Kneer, Schirin Kretschmann, Erica Lambertson, Thomas Liu Le Lann, Annette Merkenthaler, Lucas Muñoz Muñoz, Michael Sailstorfer, Tobias Spichtig, Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, Raphaela Vogel, Jaime Welsh, Karla Zipfel

Even as a teenager, art collector Lukas Jakob (*1998 in Freiburg im Breisgau, lives and works there) found identification and inspiration for his own world view in the visual arts. In the exhibition, works from his collection relate this personal approach to art to the motif of the antihero. The exhibition thus takes a look at collecting from the perspective of Generation Z.

www.villa-merkel.de→

Schirin Kretschmann is developing a new ensemble of works that responds to the local surroundings by radically recoding the exhibition spaces. In large-scale installations, sound and video works, performances, and context-specific interventions, she creates an entirely novel situation: by combining small and large, loud and quiet events that constantly reconfigure and relate to one another, she transforms the exhibition space into a living sphere and opens up a multi-layered choreographic experience for visitors. Spontaneous interactions, perceptual loops, and moments of pause challenge visitors to rethink familiar perspectives and experience the exhibition as more than just a static, finite event.

https://www.peac.digital/museum/ausstellungen→

On the southern terrace of DAS MINSK, artist Schirin Kretschmann presents the temporary work BING (ROSE). Developed across different contexts since 2007, the series BING uses ice and pigment to temporarily mark spaces, allowing what is already inscribed in a site to emerge. A cuboid block made of industrially cut ice blocks is sprayed on site with vivid pink paint. As the ice melts, the paint particles detach and accumulate on the ground. When the ice has fully disappeared, only a fleeting trace of the intervention remains.

The terrace at DAS MINSK, where BING (ROSE) is realized, sits on the Brauhausberg, beneath which historic ice cellars once used to cool beer are preserved. The history of the site resonates with the materiality of the work: as it melts, the sculptural character of BING (ROSE) liquefies—and with it, the work’s formal reference to the site’s architecture. New, ephemeral relationships emerge, for example between color, ground surface, and the building’s materials, as if the melting block of ice were interpreting its surroundings as it disappears.

https://dasminsk.de/ausstellungen/8144/schirinkretschmann→

The group exhibition CONNECT presents works by Albert Hien, Anselm Reyle, Beverly Fishman, Caro Jost, Christopher Chiappa, Cordy Ryman, Gerold Miller, Gary Petersen, Gregor Hildebrandt, Lukas Troberg, Márton Nemes, Peter Krauskopf, Schirin Kretschmann, Shannon Finley, Steven Aalders, Turi Simeti, Ulrich Erben and Viola Bittl, which together illuminate the principle of interconnectedness – the relationship between space, time, artworks, and the viewer.

https://www.storms-galerie.de/exhibition/connect→

A show disorganized by Abraham Cruzvillegas

https://espaciocabeza.com→