ERÖFFNUNG: MUR BRUT 33: Good Company

In the organizer's words:

The MUR BRUT project series has been realized on a white-painted wall in the parking garage of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf since 2010. Since then, this wall, thus detached from the visual concept of the parking garage, has served as a projection surface for quarterly changing art projects.

In her Good Company project, artist Nura Afnan-Samandari returns the wall to the parking garage by reinstating the covered blue and black stripes in their original position. She swaps this area, intended for her work, for smaller areas that are distributed across both parking decks and the outside space: Glass boxes and aluminum frames that are normally used for advertising posters for the Kunsthalle and the Kunstverein.

According to the artist herself, it is important to her to give others space in her artistic work, including space for her own ideas. She developed her work in conversation with the exhibiting artist friends, thus creating a collaborative space on an abstract and concrete level.

At the same time, she gives visitors the opportunity to experience the architecture of the parking garage and its surroundings spatially by visiting the works distributed in and around the building.

Nura Afnan-Samandari graduated from the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 2024 under Professor Sabina Fritsch.