New Heimat
2001–2002 Frankfurter Kunstverein EXHIBITION
Dec 10, 2001 to Jan 27, 2002
The exhibition New Heimat focuses on the topics migration and identity in a globalized world. The phenomenon of dislocation and mobility as an effect of globalisation is reflected in works of artists who experienced migration themselves, but also in works that visualize the European gaze as “other”. These works share a transnational background and a cultural capital of disruption and continuity.
In most European metropolis of today traditional patterns of identity no longer fit. Fixed positions are substituted by positions “between cultures” and hybrid mixed worlds. Conceived as a cooperation with the Institute for Ethnography of the Frankfurt University, the exhibition New Heimat presents works of contemporary art in dialogue with ethnografic objects from the so-called third world that illustrate the multiple forms of adoption when it comes to intercultural exchange. Change of context, adoptation and various strategies to merge local identity and Western (mainly European) influence are shown in ethnographic objects of everyday life. These hybrid forms and cross-over artefacts between local culture and European influence visualize that there is nor “right” or “wrong” context in a postcolonial world characterized by mobility and economic exchange. On the level of presentation, the exhibition intends to break down oppositions like “Europe” and “the rest of the world”, but also “art” and “ethnography”. Ethnographic objects will be presented next to works of art without special labelling. The perception of “trivial” objects in the context of high art therefore leads to a questioning of standardized categories. In a city like Frankfurt am Main with almost 30 % immigrants this new focus on “otherness” is of high importance.
Artists: Michael Beutler, Andrea Bowers, Jeanne Faust, Naya Hatakeyama, Sharon Lockhart, Bjarne Melgaard, Isa Melsheimer, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Adrian Piper, Richard Prince, Tobias Rehberger, Gretchen So, Haim Steinbach, Nasrin Tabatabai and Jun Yang
The Exhibition includes ethnographic objects from the collection of the Frobenius-Institut, Institute for Ethnographic Studies, Frankfurt am Main (Nigeria, Bali, Brasil, Papua-Guinea)
New Heimat
The catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition, with contributions by Kurt Beck, Heike Behrend, Britta Duelke, Volker Gottowik, Holger Jebens, Karl-Heinz Kohl, Judith And David Macdougall, Nicole Jankowski/Christian Meyer and Editha Platte.
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