Body and Building

This performative exhibition is a physical appropriation of the SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt.

Intro

On two evenings and two days the windows of the empty museum gallery, which are normally kept shut, will be opened. Flooded with light, the room, which is 140 meters in length, will be brought to life, invigorated, structured, confronted, and encountered through the unique atmosphere of live performances. A dialogue therefore arises between art and architecture: an engagement between the human body and the spatial presence surrounding it.

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As a contemporary art form, performance has developed in recent years more radically than almost all other artistic forms of expression. It crosses the boundaries between genres, combines dance, music, and theater, and permits a direct and immediate encounter with its environment—with visitors as well as with spaces. Architecture and spaces are usually perceived in terms of doors, staircases, rooms, windows, perspectives, prospects, and insights. The performers enter into negotiations with the SCHIRN’s building: the movement of the body explores and questions the architecture. It tells of the power and strength of a space—and of new possibilities for experiencing and embracing it or forming new spatial bodies.

  • Participants

    Adrian Ruth Williams, Alicja Wysocka, Ana Prvački, Anna Witt, Annika Ström, Astrit Ismaili, Franz Erhard Walther, Irena Haiduk, Isaac Chong Wai, Lenio Kaklea, Lina Lapelytė, Maria Hassabi, Nazanin Noori, Norma Jeane, Andrea Fraser, Ei Arakawa-Nash, Jimmy Robert, Laura Yuile, Ligia Lewis, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Meg Stuart, Michael Sailstorfer, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Selma Selman, Clara Wörsdörfer, Ellen Blumenstein, Frederike Sperling, Lisa Beisswanger, Lisa Moravec

  • Curator

    Matthias Ulrich

  • Curatorial Assistant

    Theresa Dettinger

  • Supported by

    Verein der Freunde der SCHIRN Kunsthalle e.V.

  • Additional support from

    Dr. Hans Feith und Dr. Elisabeth Feith-Stiftung
    Kingdom of the Netherlands