THIS TOO SHALL PASS

THIS TOO SHALL PASS What does singing together mean in our society, especially in a pandemic and crisis-ridden world where music and art per se have long been silenced? This summer, the internationally renowned Nigerian artist Emeka Ogboh is transforming Frankfurt’s city centre into a soundscape on water and on land. At the centre of…

Salotto Buono

Salotto Buono Salotto Buono is the name of a jour fixe that creates a space for regular social and intellectual exchange in Juliane von Herz’s private home in the Westend neighbourhood of Frankfurt. The term ‘Salotto Buono’, literally a ‘good salon’, describes a traditional closed shop and network of powerful northern Italian industrialists and bankers…

Hotel Europa

Hotel Europa A cultural summit in Frankfurt HOTEL EUROPA is a planned summit meeting with artists in the public urban space in the multicultural main metropolis Frankfurt. It takes the current explosiveness of the European discourse to reflect and comment on it from an artistic perspective. The metaphor of the ‘hotel’ corresponds to the vision…

Interlace the Interspace

Interlace the Interspace Intervals and interspaces The public academic colloquium on the future of art in public spaces – entitled ‘Interlace the Interspace: Art in the City’ – was initiated and organised by the Institute for Art History and Music (IKM) at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. As a co-organiser of the colloquium, SEEHOF…

Rossmarkt3 – the study

Rossmarkt3 – die Studie Participation of civil society In the 3-year, participatory sculpture project, the choice of artist by the young citizens was always preceded by an extensive educational project that took place around the Rossmarkt and transformed the urban space. Together with various experts, the young Frankfurters – around 35 students from all grammar…