Heilung der Erde. 50 Jahre Deutsch-Mongolische Freundschaft

In the organizer's words:

The extensive exhibition project Healing the Earth is a cooperation between the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and the Chinggis Khaan National Museum in Ulaanbaatar to mark 50 years of diplomatic relations between Mongolia and Germany. However, the connection between the two countries goes far beyond these 50 years: as early as 1926, young Mongolians were sent to Germany to study. Even today, Germany is still referred to as a "third neighbor" in Mongolia; more than one percent of the Mongolian population speaks German.

Based on Joseph Beuys' early pioneering work, the project Healing the Earth in the anniversary year of German-Mongolian friendship once again builds a bridge between the culture of the nomads, which has been lived for thousands of years and is essential for survival, and contemporary art. It is dedicated to the perspectives of different cultures and explores memories from the past. However, it also looks to the future, connects new strands in an open network of relationships and opens up dialogues between the diverse approaches of artistic approaches to the current state of the earth and its possible healing opportunities.

Theory and practice as well as art and politics should not be understood as chronically misunderstanding systems that have been separate since modern times, but as a continuum. Art stands for existence and bears witness to the invocation of forces that Western society has increasingly forgotten since modern times. But the potential of invoking myths and archaic vitality remains, the images for man and animal, house, tent, mountains, landscape and sky are ancient and still present to us all.

In the works of 18 contemporary artists in Düsseldorf and Ulaanbaatar, ways and means of questioning and scrutinizing current world conditions will be explored. The network of different works in diverse media may offer the opportunity to unlearn the often arrogant attitude of the West and to ask for other, livable futures in unpredictable alliances: What healing for which earth?

Participating artists:
JAVKHLAN Ariunbold, OCHIRBOLD Ayurzana, BAATARZORIG Batjargal, MUNKHTSETSEGBatmunkh, Joseph Beuys, NOMIN Bold, Mariechen Danz, OTGONBAYAR Dashdorj, UNENEnkh, GERELKHUU Ganbold, Melike Kara, Claudia Mann, Carmen Schaich, Slavs and Tatars, Thomas Stricker, GAN-ERDENE Tsend, Julian Westermann, TUGULDUR Yondonjamts

Price information:

Adults EUR 6.00 Reduced EUR 3.00 Groups of 10 or more EUR 3.00 Children/young people up to 18 years free Disabled persons incl. accompanying person free