2018

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Schulzentrum Gerastraße 4-6, 80993 München

Sieben 360 Grad-Leuchtkästen, Durchmesser: 160 cm (2x), 200 cm (2x), 240 cm (3x)

Seven 360-degree light boxes, diameter: 160 cm (2x), 200 cm (2x), 240 cm (3x)

Architecture: jesse hofmayr werner Architekten, München

Landscape architecture: kübertlandschaftsarchitektur, München

Photos: Oliver Heissner

Text: Bernhart Schwenk

Where do I feel at home? Do I want to live in Australia? How would I view the world if I’d been born in Africa? While growing up, questions about one’s own origins, or about personal and collective benchmarks gain meaning—and this is the main theme of this art project: how young people create their own individual heavens, their own individual worlds.

Seven large rings of light placed in the ceilings of selected locations at the school display round photographs, each one taken at a different place around the world, in Asia, Africa, North and South America, Australia, Europe, and Antarctica. What the pictures have in common is their perspective: they are all skyward views, so that at the lower edges of the photos only the roofs of houses, or the tops of towers or trees can be seen, while the ground remains unseen. This complements the perspective of viewers as they stand beneath the rings of light, looking up.

The first ring of light is in the entrance area and features a detail of the sky above the school—Moosach as the panoramic view of “Europe.” The students contributed to the work by using their social networks to help find the motifs for the other six sky panoramas. The seven domes, reminiscent of Baroque ceiling murals, are now orientation points in everyday life at the school, and at the same time, they look out toward their own cosmopolitan future.