QUIVID-Review #1

Editor: Baureferat München
Project Management: Lisa Maria Weber & Lisa Stoiber & Heinz Grünberger
Design: PARAT.cc, München
Print: Offizin Scheufele Druck und Medien, Stuttgart
With texts by Katrin Luisa Bauer, Quirin Brunnmeier, Peter Funken, Lydia Korndörfer, Matthias Mühling, Mareike Schwarz, Bernhart Schwenk, Elena Setzer and Julia Anna Wittmann
Translation: Allison Moseley
German/English, 80 pages
Release Date: June 2024

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With this review, we wanted to document the eleven works of art in architecture that were realized in 2023 at schools, daycare centers, and public plazas in seven districts of Munich. Working in all different kinds of media, the artists invited or selected by the Commission create works of art conceived especially for the site and its users.

For instance, ceramic objects are turned into artistically designed guidance systems for preschool children, such as “Obst & Gemüse” by the Berlin artist Nigin Beck. Other artists take advantage of the whole height of a building to create sculptures that reach upward from the ground floor to the top story, as the Danish, Berlin-based artist Christian Falsnaes did with his piece “Korper”. Anja Buchheister, an artist living in Ireland, and Sven Kalden, from Kassel, start by having discussions with the users before realizing their works or collaborating on them. Others, such as the Austrian duo Claudia Plank & Hans Werner Poschauko, the Austrian collective Gelitin, or the Norwegian artist Verena Issel enliven existing white walls with intensely colorful mosaics or reliefs.

Others use a variety of means to create special atmospheres through their artworks made of light — for example, Munich artist Albert Hien and his “Carpe Diem” in the tower of the Oskar-von-Miller-Gymnasium, or Olaf Nicolai and his “Freiham illuminata // Luce del respiro” in the green space on the Freiham school campus. In Ilit Azoulay’s multimedia piece “Digital Amnesia or Constructed Memory”, history and the history of the site are the focus. Berlin-based Nevin Aladağ connects places around the world through the formal vocabulary for her floor piece, “Pattern of Fame”, constructed out of specially made terrazzo tiles, while also addressing issues of ancestry, identity, and belonging.

In the center section of this booklet, the artist Philipp Gufler discusses in an interview the artwork he made in 2021 for the Lerchenau sports facility, as well as his practice of art. In his work, the artist sheds a critical light on how Western history is written and advocates for visibility for queer figures, groups, and forgotten places. A second interview deals with the Israeli artist Ilit Azoulay’s process of creating her piece in the Maximiliansgymnasium, which is also part of this review.

Photos: Thomas Gothier

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