Under the name "stART", the Chair of Art Education and Visual Literacy, the Chair of Art History and Visual Studies and the Museum Moderner Kunst Wörlen in Passau support graduates of art education at the University of Passau. In a sequenced exhibition this year, Lucas Maximilian Frohn reflects on the prerequisites and processes within the activity of exhibiting art. The exhibition will open on December 13, 2024 at 7 pm in the presence of the artist. It will be on display in the sculpture room of the Museum Moderner Kunst Wörlen until March 2, 2025.
For Lucas Maximilian Frohn, the opportunity of a first institutional solo exhibition at the Museum Moderner Kunst Wörlen is the starting point for a conceptual exploration of the exhibition medium. What actually is an exhibition? What conditions and prerequisites exist for the art shown in this context and its preceding processes?
Five pivotal points determine the thematic orientation of the installed works, which, as carriers of performative artistic gestures, deal with the activity of exhibiting. In this way, the conditions of exhibiting itself become the subject of artistic action: the architecture of the sculpture space is questioned as a spatial precondition of exhibition practice. The temporality of this space appears through quotations from past exhibitions. The institution of the Museum Moderner Kunst Wörlen represents a further addressee in the structure of the processes and preconditions of artistic activity. With regard to the infrastructure in which it is embedded, there are references and references to the material, but above all the immaterial external conditions that stimulate the exhibition. Last but not least, artistic action and the conditions of showing are also reflected upon, whereby the construction of an artist subject as a component of aesthetic processes is put up for debate in the context of this exhibition.
The contents of the exhibition are in a state of constant linking and dissolving. There is a relational structure that is constantly establishing new connections and relationships. By updating the arrangement of works in the sculpture room of the MMK Passau several times over the course of the exhibition, their connections, spaces of meaning and forms of relationship are constantly renegotiated. Each of these varying sequences will be documented during the exhibition and made accessible to visitors as a discursive field of artistic activity.
With the "stART" project, the Museum Moderner Kunst Wörlen and the Chair of Art Education and Visual Literacy at the University of Passau have been supporting graduates of the Art Education and Visual Literacy course since 2013. Since 2016, this has been supported by the Chair of Art History and Visual Literacy, which gives its students the opportunity to gain experience in planning and staging an exhibition. This year, the show is curated by Yola Ginzkey.
The exhibition will be opened by the director of the Museum Moderner Kunst Wörlen, Dr. Marion Bornscheuer. Mayor Armin Dickl will give the welcoming address. Prof. Dr. Barbara Lutz-Sterzenbach and Yola Ginzkey will introduce the topic.
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