31.01.2021

if walls could tell - Podiumsdiskussionen in Sarajevo und Bukarest

from 2025/1/31 I Center for Contemporary Culture Art with Galeria PLAI, Chișinău /MDA panel discussion on 2025/2/2, 2 pm I Galeria PLAI, Chișinău /MDA

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 stage will then return to its institutional context to secure or further inscribe the traces left behind.

The process will be repeated in all partner cities, starting on August 27, 2024 at the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest /ROU, followed by Skopje /MKD, Kraljevica /HRV, Bihać /BIH, Čačak /SRB, Ljubljana /SVN, Chișinău /MDA and Cetinje /MNE. In each of the partner cities, the walls will return to the museum or gallery after their installation in the public space, where panel discussions will be held to address the impact of participatory art in public space in their specific context. The project will end at the WELTKUNSTZIMMER in Düsseldorf, where the final discussion with all partners will take place.

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Mischa Kuball, if walls could tell, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, 2024 (c) VG Bild-Kunst Bonn 2025, Foto: Archiv Studio Mischa Kuball

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