Eine Vernissage in Bewegung

AN OPENING IN MOTION

NOT YET—UTOPIA IN THE MAKING // LUDWIGSHAFEN ART ASSOCIATION

July 16, 6:00 p.m.

At three locations—dasHaus (6 p.m.), the storefront at Rathausplatz 21 (7 p.m.), and Platz der Deutschen Einheit (8 p.m.) 

Together, we’ll make our way through Ludwigshafen and experience site-specific new productions in public spaces at three locations. 

About the participating artists:

KATARINA BURIN In her site-specific sculpture, the artist examines Ludwigshafen’s postwar architecture: What remains of modernism’s promises when its structures begin to erode? → In collaboration with Barac Mannheim

EMMÉLIE LEMPERT The artist presents new textile art objects that portray the female body as an intersection of control and resistance—strangely familiar shells that straddle the line between historical lingerie and utopian possibilities.

HARU APA NYX A new glass work created using the Tiffany technique, in which the artist translates her fascination with the insect world—exoskeletons, symmetry, metamorphosis, and the dominant role of the female—into glittering, quasi-mythological images of the autoerotic female body.

COCO FUSCO The black-and-white video installation “Dolores from 10 to 10” reconstructs on surveillance monitors what the cameras saw when a Mexican maquiladora worker was locked up for twelve hours to force her to resign.

DRITON SELMANI The video work “Utopia, The Place That Doesn’t Exist” was created in 2009, following Kosovo’s declaration of independence; with a simple gesture in a public space in Prishtina, it questions the idea of borders, statehood, and national utopia.

GABRIELA PELCZARSKA The site-specific sound work at the tram station in the former City Hall Center uses the sounds of car engines to create a field of tension between human and machine and explores questions of humanity and utopia in public space.

RAUL WALCH “Bloch Fountain (Edification of the Imagination)” This site-specific installation takes up the floor plan of the long-forgotten “Ludwigsbrunnen” and transforms it into a temporary sculpture, interspersed with word fragments and quotations from Ernst Bloch. At the same time, the work draws attention to the fragile handling of water as a vital resource.