Δ OBJECT ATLAS – Fieldwork in the Museum

This exhibition presents objects from the Museum’s collections plus new works produced by seven international artists who undertook fieldwork in the Museum during 2011.

Paintings, films, and three dimensional installations by Thomas Bayrle (D), Marc Camille Chaimowicz (UK/F), Antje Majewski (D), Otobong Nkanga (Nigeria), and Simon Popper (UK) are installed in close proximity to objects from Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Venezuela, Brazil and Peru. Helke Bayrle (D) and Sunah Choi (Korea) show a film shot in the Museum’s stores that investigates the figurative detail on over one hundred ethnographic artefacts. Historical drawings and photographs of phallic posts made by Alf Bayrle (Thomas Bayrle’s father) on an expedition to Ethiopia in 1934 are exhibited for the first time together with the original funerary steles acquired by the Museum at the same time.

A reading room with archival material from the seminal Frankfurt Qumran Verlag for anthropology and art, plus catalogues and reference books extends the vistors’ own experience of fieldwork in the museum.

The participating artists are present.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue in German and English with unpublished essays by Richard Sennett, Paul Rabinow and the late Hubert Fichte, discussions between Lothar Baumgarten and Michael Oppitz, texts by Clémentine Deliss, Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs, Richard Kuba, Eva Ch. Raabe, Mona Suhrbier, Vanessa von Gliszczynski as well as interviews with the artists who took part in the exhibition. Plus numerous facsimiles of anthropological texts and newspaper cuttings. 500 pages, 250 colour illustrations/photographs, Kerber Verlag, €28.

Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29, 60594 Frankfurt am Main

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Δ WELCOME TO PARADISE

Green Room, Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37

In the exhibition "Welcome to Paradise", Shane Munro presents a collection of artworks produced in Frankfurt for trade with US military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan. Made from egg-cups, expanding foam, and other materials Munro's new artworks form part one of this two-part exhibition and are based on variations on the 'Koan'. The Koan, which is central to the history and lore of Zen Buddhism, consists of a story, dialogue, question or statement the meaning of which cannot be understood through rational thought but may be accessible through intuition.

Shane Munro (*1978, Belgrad) lives and works in Frankfurt am Main. Until 2003 he studied Photography and Digital Media at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. From 2007-2010 he studied with Prof. Tobias Rehberger at Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Staedelschule, Frankfurt and received the Absolventenpreis of the Staedelschule in 2010. His artworks have been shown in numerous international exhibitions, such as "New Frankfurt Internationals: Stories and Stages", Kunstverein Frankfurt (2011); "Too Fat to Fit", Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden (2010); "Geschmacksverstärker", MMK Frankfurt (2010); "Summer Readings", Invisible Exports, New York (2009); "Deuxime Bureau", Parisa Kind, Frankfurt (2009).

Shane Munro developed the concept of the Green Room and has curated it since early 2011. The Green Room takes its cue from special effects studios and defines the place where performers spend their final minutes before they go on stage. Artists invited to the Green Room are asked to respond to the collections of the Museum.

 

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