Kunsthalle unterwegs: Beneath the Surface, Beyond the Trees

In the organizer's words:

Aljoscha / Daniel Hölzl & Abie Franklin / Sofía Magdits Espinoza / Sophie Utikal / Finnegan Shannon

The Suitbertus Lake in Düsseldorf Kaiserswerth is a place that is not normally open to the public: a shielded body of water that has been leased and used for fishing by the SACDüsseldorf-Kaiserswerth 1909 e.V. association since 1970. As part of the Beneath the Surface, Beyond the Trees exhibition, the lake will be temporarily opened up and used as a stage for artistic interventions for the first time. These will enter into a dialog with the ecosystem of the lake and its surroundings, sometimes gently, sometimes irritatingly, thus creating new perspectives on the site.

The lake is not just a landscape, but a structure of movements, rhythms and transitions. Water, shore and vegetation form a sensitive balance that is constantly changing. It is in this network that the artistic works begin, taking up existing structures, shifting perceptions and opening up new relationships between body, space and environment.

The exhibition uses different spatial levels to make the location tangible: The water surface as an active, moving surface, the shore as an interface between the body of water and its surroundings, and the surrounding nature as a space for discovery, irritation and rapprochement.

Beneath the Surface, Beyond the Trees thus opens up a new form of engagement with the lake and its landscape. The artistic settings enable a cautious approach to an otherwise hidden natural space within the urban area.

The exhibition is being realized as part of the Kunsthalle unterwegs project series.