Grund und Boden. Wie wir miteinander leben
In the organizer's words:
The exhibition Grund und Boden. How we live together at K21 of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is about human coexistence: about war, displacement, flight and the destruction of nature, but also about reconstruction and regeneration, about living, planting, owning and sharing. It invites visitors to create visions for a just and sustainable future. The exhibition covers the entire K21 and the adjacent Ständehauspark and also takes a look at the ground on which the museum stands - both geographically and historically. Taking the museum's parliamentary past as a starting point, 34 international artists and collectives address different forms of resource management - from indigenous economic practices and collective ownership to utopian blockchain projects.
Earth, coal, lotus silk, pine needles, chocolate: the exhibition goes to the elementary in terms of material and form. It appeals to the senses as well as the mind. Grund und Boden takes us to Brazil, Korea, the Congo, Japan, the USA, China, Peru, Vietnam, Iraq, Sri Lanka, the Middle East and back to Germany. It traces the fantasies of libertarian pioneers who want to found their own states or conquer Mars. And it looks at the foundations of Düsseldorf's industrial prosperity: on the last day, a performance by Sybling (JP Raether & Sarah Friend) leads to the nearby Garzweiler open-cast lignite mine, a site of ongoing conflicts between industry and nature conservation, capital accumulation and activism.
With works by: Havîn Al-Sîndy, Maria Thereza Alves, Asche Lützerathi (otherhosted by Sybling - JP Raether & Sarah Friend), Joseph Beuys, AA Bronson, Johannes Büttner, Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (Artists' Association of Congolese Plantation Workers, CATPC), Liu Chuang, Simon Denny, Jan Dibbets, Nir Evron, Simone Fattal, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Jef Geys, Robert Gober, Dor Guez, Andreas Gursky, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Boris Mikhailov, Lutz Mommartz, Grace Ndiritu, Simone Nieweg, Chris Reinecke, Ugo Rondinone, Thomas Ruff, Lin May Saeed, Shimabuku, terra0, Ron Tran, Franz West, Alex Wissel
Price information:
Ticket prices for current exhibitions and the K21 collection: Regular € 14.00, reduced € 12.00, students & trainees € 5.00, children & young people up to 18 years € 0.00
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