22.08.2024

Mischa Kuballs Projekt if walls could tell startet in Sarajevo

22.8.2024 - 25.9.2025 Launch: Thursday, 8/22., 7 pm | Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo /BIH next: Tuesday, 27.8., 7 pm | The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest /ROU

In anticipation of this year's laying of the foundation stone for the new Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art on August 19, 2024, the Düsseldorf based conceptual artist Mischa Kuball invites the citizens of Sarajevo City to design three white walls for the museum exhibition from August 22 to the end of October as a reference to the urban debate on the cultural-political significance of the future museum quarter and participation in Sarajevo's cultural life with his art action in public space if walls could tell.

The transnational project if walls could tell questions art institutions with regard to 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, followed by Skopje, Kraljevica, Bihać, Čačak, Ljubljana, Chișinău and Cetinje in 2025. In each of the partner cities, after their installation in the public space, the walls will return to the museum or gallery, where panel discussions will take place 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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