Δ APOLLO

Until 11th August 2013

With Christin Berg (DE), Benedikte Bjerre (DK), Andreas Bülow Cosmus (DK), Oscar Carlson (SE), Ian Edmonds (CA), Natasja Loutchko (SE), John Skoog (SE), Giovanni Sortino (IT) and Marcello Spada (IT).

An exhibition of contemporary ethnographic and artistic practice by former and current Städelschule students.

In the spring 2013, nine artists spent a month at the Villa Lugaresi in Bellaria, a small town on the Adriatic coast, to re-open "Cinema-Teatro Apollo", a former picture-house. Together with the town of Bellaria, the cinema and villa have undergone several transformations over the last 100 years. In re-opening the cinema, the group attempts to let different changes and times collapse and overlap.

The exhibition in the Weltkulturen Labor proposes a performative approach to displaying research, fieldwork and objects. A publication is produced and bound on site in the Green Room. Each copy has a different page order and creates new juxtapositions and ways of understanding the material. This process is intended to remediate the original fieldwork that took place in Bellaria in the Apollo cinema.
 

This project was realised with the generous support of:

The Lugaresi Family
Bernbeck-Stiftung
Städelschule Portikus e.V.
HfBK Städelschule
Weltkulturen Museum
iaspis
Kinothek Asta Nielsen
Home Movies Bologna
Nicola Biondi
Johanna Raoust

Entrance free
Tue-Sun 11am-6pm, Wed 11am-8pm

Weltkulturen Labor, Green Room
Schaumainkai 37, 60594 Frankfurt

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Δ TRADING STYLE – Weltmode im Dialog

Until 27th October 2013

What does fashion tell us about society? How do styles travel and mediate identity?

In an unprecedented dialogue between past and present worlds of fashion, “TRADING STYLE” presents over 500 historic objects, photographs and films from the Weltkulturen Museum’s collection together with new designs for clothing and accessories by four international fashion labels: Buki Akib(NG), A Kind of Guise (DE), CassettePlaya (UK) and P.A.M./Perks and Mini (AU).

Working in residence at the museum’s lab during 2012, each team of designers investigated the ethnographic collections and created new prototype garments inspired by their selection.

With artefacts from Angola, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Germany, Greenland, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Iran, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Micronesia, Namibia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Nigeria, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tierra del Fuego, Togo, Uganda, the United States and Venezuela.

Art Director: Teimaz Shahverdi.

The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive publication (Kerber Verlag).

Produced in cooperation with Theatrum Mundi / Global Street(theatrum-mundi.org).

Supported by Hessische Kulturstiftung, ARTE, BritishCouncil and Ambiente. Media Partner: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Participating fashion designers:
A Kind of Guise (Germany) www.akindofguise.com Residency Weltkulturen Labor April 2012

CassettePlaya (Great Britain) www.cassetteplaya.com Residency Weltkulturen Labor May/August 2012

Buki Akib (Nigeria) www.bukiakib.com Residency Weltkulturen Labor June 2012

Perks and Mini/P.A.M (Australia) www.perksandmini.com Residency Weltkulturen Labor July 2012

Weltkulturen Limited Edition: “Collection of the Collection”
Based on the exhibition “TRADING STYLE”, six designers develop new limited editions that are presented and sold at the Weltkulturen Museum. The Berlin label “New Tendency” (www.newtendency.de) creates an exclusive edition of bags. Further editions include productions by Saskia Dietz and uslu airlines. Click here for more information.

Tue-Sun, 11am-6pm, Wed, 11am-8pm
Entrance Museum: €5 / reduced €2.50
Schaumainkai 29, 60594 Frankfurt

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