In a Nutshell: An Interview in 140 Characters
Nov 20, 2014
Marion Ackermann on the exhibition program of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen for 2015
At the center of our exhibition program for 2015 at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Major are artistic positions ranging from Joan Miró to Günther Uecker and the American artist Agnes Martin. Here, we test out a new interview format, asking Marion Ackermann to explain the current exhibition projects for #32 – with a length maximum respectively of a mere 140 characters.
For #32 by Alissa Krusch
Dear Marion Ackermann, in #32, we want to try out our new interview format. We would be delighted to receive your replies in 140 characters or less.
What ties together all of the exhibitions planned for the #K20 and the #K21 in 2015?
An exorbitant creativity, one that becomes political as well because it cannot be tamed.
The program begins at the K20 with a major Uecker exhibition. What #hashtags might be used to characterize the work of Günther Uecker?
#Movement #noise #silence #terror #light #shadow #writing #white
"Miró: Painting as Poetry" follows in summertime. What literary material is visible in the pictures?
Visitors will see letters, poems, secret and universal signs such as suns, moons, and stars, the artist's own poems, but also graffiti.
You have announced that the exhibition "Imi Knoebel – Honoring Malevich" at the #K21 will involve a surprise. Can you reveal anything more?
Then it wouldn't be a surprise…
Opening in November at the #K21 is an exhibition with an English title. Why can't "The Problem of God" be translated into German?
It's the title of a work by #PavelBüchler. In English, also, there are two possible readings: God's problem with people, and theirs with Him.
A retrospective at the #K20, a major collaboration with the @Tate, features the artist Agnes Martin. What makes her work so current?
Contemplation of her light-flooded works is an ideal way to achieve a state of #deceleration.
In 2015, projects by #GüntherUecker and #WiebkeSiem will be on view in the #LABOR. What is special about this venue?
Here, visitors are drawn directly into an action, and participate in defining the space.
A final question: what is the prospect in 2015 for #InOrbit at the #K21?
Until springtime, you will still be able to clamber around the work, positioning yourself like a spider in a web! Come visit!
Is it possible to grasp the complexity of an exhibition in 140 characters? Probably not, concedes Alissa Krusch, who conducted the premiere short interview of this type with Marion Ackermann. But a restriction to the length of an average tweet is a provocative experiment – for its impact on both the participants' ideas and on their language. A sequel has certainly not been ruled out…
A preview of our upcoming exhibition program at the K20 and the K21 is available on our homepage at:
