MUARCO 3 – connecting the people
The intention and task of MUARCO is to question the current and future contemporary role of the museum as an institution for the preservation and dissemination of culture in a society and to offer new impulses to formulate adequate answers.While the mobility of the people involved within these institutions is limited and subject to many regulations, art can (almost) ask questions and, above all, try things out. If the museum, created from the cabinets of the nobles and their collections of curiosities, was an expression of power, success, internationality and an expression of cultural dominance, this role also migrated from the hands of the old elites into the hands of the bourgeoisie, which increasingly assumed sovereignty wanted to achieve and manifest via the definition of the respective culture. It quickly became clear that this institution is also wonderfully suited to promoting one’s own private interests. The commercialization of art was…
The day Beuys deleted his social media accounts
About love for people in times of a global civil war This is the story of a look back at many years of social art, the story of the rise and fall of social media, the story of a departure into the reald world that looks like re-treat and social death, and which only underlines that contemporary artists should also enjoy their time . My path into the arts started 40 years ago. For a small German town I was commissioned to carry out an art campaign for children and young people, my first paid artwork with the age of 18. I suggested a common action painting. The canvas 40 x 1.6 m in 20 segments faced a crowd of more than 160 young painters. The rules were clear: paint over what you don’t like. Allow the following to do the same. Return as many times as you want till…
