Museumsnacht: Guilty Pleasure, Mineral Treasure

In the organizer's words:

Guilty Pleasure, Mineral Treasure
24th DEW21 Museum Night

5 p.m.: Opening - UNSUPERVISED
Exhibition opening of the Swedish artist Janette Bornmarker on the second floor of the Künstlerhaus.

7 pm: Guided tour
The curators of the exhibition, Jana Kerima Stolzer and Lex Rütten, will guide you through the group show and give you an insight behind the scenes.

8 pm: Concert / Performance: WIFI Gold (Live)
The Dortmund musician WIFI Gold will play a live set following the guided tour, somewhere between experimental electronic music, quarter-life crisis jazz and 404-error-pages-IDM.

About the exhibition
The environment is in a constant state of change, human activity is constantly driving this change and is deeply inscribed in the landscape. Many regions of the world are characterized by the extraction of raw materials and industrialization; extraction is the history of the past century in the Ruhr area. Now the mines are at a standstill and the exploitation of raw materials continues in places outside Europe in order to ensure supply, consumption and technological progress in the West. Our own relationship to consumption and its effects is thus further abstracted from its origins. Natural resources are becoming scarcer and unfairly distributed, CO2 levels in the atmosphere are rising, climate change is making regions uninhabitable thanks to ongoing extraction and a constantly growing sense of powerlessness is emerging.

As a reaction to the alienation from our environment and all life, which is more than human, the artists in the exhibition design practices and mind games and also invite us to take action and approach the world in the Anthropocene from a new perspective. They use VR, video, installation and interactive games. Despite the diverse aesthetics, the installations have one thing in common: they question our current position in the world and our relationship to nature in a playful way.

Artists
Patricia Dominguez
Nieves de la Fuente
Wiebke Meischner
Maria Resende Santos & Graham Livingston
Camilo Sandoval

Curators
Jana Kerima Stolzer & Lex Rütten

Press tour / Curator:inside tour
Friday, August 16, at 17:30

Opening of the exhibition
Friday, August 16, at 7 p.m.

Harbor walk
Saturday, August 31, 2 - 7 p.m. open

Opening hours
Thu - Sun, 4 - 7 pm
August 17 - October 6, 2024

Free admission.

Kindly supported by
Dortmund Cultural Office