QUIVID-Review #2

Publisher: Baureferat Munich
Project Management: Lisa Maria Weber & Lisa Stoiber & Heinz Grünberger
Design: PARAT.cc, Munich
Print: Offizin Scheufele Druck und Medien, Stuttgart
With texts by Katrin Bauer, Dr. Monika Bayer-Wermuth, Quirin Brunnmeier, Roberta De Righi, Dr. Eva-Marina Froitzheim, Dr. Patricia Grzonka, Dr. Christa Häusler, Barbara Horvath, Prof. Julienne Lorz, Dr. Jenny Mues, Ursula Pokorny, Herbert Schnepf and Julia Stellmann
Translation: Marie Frohling
German/English, 96 pages
Release Date: April 2025

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With works by Alexandra Bircken, Georgia Creimer, Jon Etter, Wolfgang Groh, Ilse Haider, Jette Hampe, Benedikt Hipp, Valerie Kiock & Zeno Dietrich, L+S, Angelika Loderer, Gabriela Oberkofler, Christian Schwarzwald and Veronika Veit

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The second edition of the QUIVID review presents 13 art in architecture projects realized in 2024 at municipal schools, daycare centers, youth facilities, as well as on a depot and a public square in Munich and its surroundings.The uniting thread linking the artworks in this year’s review publication is the focus on our environment in the broadest sense. The works heighten our awareness of what surrounds us and keeps us alive: nature and human interaction. The artists thus contribute to the preservation of our social foundations, the intergenerational task par excellence.

The immediate beneficiaries of the works created in the context of the QUIVID program are largely children and young adults. For a decade now, the city’s building department’s art in architecture program largely has been dedicated to new and emerging educational facilities. Since the 2014 launch of the ‘Bildungsbauoffensive München,’ Germany’s largest school and daycare building construction program, QUIVID has brought children and youths, in kindergartens and schools, into contact with contemporary art and a broad range of relevant social issues.

The interview in the middle section of the magazine offers readers a deeper understanding of the new QUIVID artwork „PS (Horsepower)“ by Alexandra Bircken. With her eye-catching horse sculpture located at the entrance to the Altstadtringtunnel on Oskar-von-Miller-Ring, Bircken explores the limits of mobility and speed. In conversation with Dr. Monika Bayer-Wermuth, this sculpture will be placed in the context of the artist’s oeuvre as a whole.

A new feature will be introduced in the second issue of QUIVID-Review: From now on, the design of the covers will be in the hands of artists. With their designs, they create independent works that comment on the topics of art in architecture or art in public spaces. The design of its cover was created by the Greek artist Zafos Xagoraris. His two drawings on the cover and inside flap address a paradigm shift in dealing with monumental symbols of power in public space and the associated existence of different versions of history.

The yearbook is accompanied by an educational program in the form of an art treasure hunt for children and families to five QUIVID artworks in Sendling, Westend and Isarvorstadt. An invitation to (re)explore these works and their sites on foot or by bike following a provided map.

Photos: Thomas Gothier

The number of printed copies is very limited. If you are interested in a printed edition, please contact the QUIVID team: quivid.bau@muenchen.de

DIGITAL EDITION