12.09.2024

if walls could tell - Podiumsdiskussionen in Sarajevo und Bukarest

Donnerstag, 12.9.2024, 18 Uhr I Museumsplatz, Vilsonovo Fußgängerzone, Sarajevo /BIH Samstag, 14.9.2024, 18 Uhr I Muzeul Național al Țăranului Român, Sala Tancred Bănățeanu, Bucharest /ROU

On August 22, 2024, the international project if walls could tell by Mischa Kuball opened its first two locations in Sarajevo and Bucharest. In cooperation with the Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art in Sarajevo and the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest, citizens of the cities are invited to design three symbolic museum walls in public space as a collaborative work of art. The action will be accompanied by panel discussions to address the impact of participatory art in public space in its specific context.

On September 12 at 6 p.m. in Sarajevo, Mischa Kuball will discuss interactive art in public space and the limits of cultural participation with the directors of the three museums of the future Museumsquartier and representatives of the local cultural and art scene. 
The panel discussion in Bucharest on September 14 at 6 pm will address the current theoretical debates on the role of interactive and participatory art in public space, focusing on its political and social aesthetics.

The transnational project if walls could tell questions art institutions in terms of their permeability to broader social groups within a community. Over a period of two to four weeks, three symbolic museum walls will be installed in public spaces in various cities in South Eastern Europe, where they will serve as an accessible and temporary stage for the inhabitants. Like a filter, these walls will catch all “traces” of cultural and urban expressions in the midst of people's urban lives, away from the cultural institutions to which they refer. Once marked by the environment and the people, the walls will then return to their institutional context to secure or further inscribe the traces left behind. The process will be repeated in all partner cities, starting in Sarajevo and Bucharest, followed by Skopje, Kraljevica, Bihać, Čačak, Ljubljana, Chișinău and Cetinje in 2025. In each of the partner cities, the walls will return to the museum or gallery after their installation in the public space. The project will end at the WELTKUNSTZIMMER in Düsseldorf, where the final discussion with all partners will take place.

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Further Informationen on the program in Sarajevo and Bucharest

Mischa Kuball, if walls could tell, Simulation in front of Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo. © Renzo Piano Building Workshop / Studio Mischa Kuball

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