TIM ETCHELLS – FROM THE OTHER SIDE A Question of Perspective From the Other Side is a large-scale neon work commissioned by moderne stadt for Deutzer Hafen in Cologne. Installed on the derelict structure of a 29m wide industrial crane, the work presents its full text SEE THINGS FROM THE OTHER SIDE in two directions,…
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 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 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…
For all People This is what the world sounds like Together with young musicians from Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, a voluntary community music project was developed and piloted in Frankfurt for young people from all over the world. FOR ALL PEOPLE brings together Frankfurt residents and young refugees, giving them the opportunity…
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 – 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…
