Monomentum (07.–24.08.2024)
When we think of the word “space”, it is primarily architectural spaces that come to mind, such as our own four walls or public spaces. We move within the framework that built spaces offer us and occupy private and public spaces with our existence.
Inhabiting something does not necessarily mean moving into a building. It implies all those forms of association that give an opaque, personal and never quite tangible feeling a fixed form - only to be able to dissolve and change again and again in this very form. So how is it possible to withdraw from reality and yet find a home in the midst of it? Are there utopian models of being and living together? What creates invisible alliances and relationships?
The private four walls have long been regarded as the most intimate space, largely
largely withdrawn from the public eye and, due to their invisibility, have a rather unconcrete meaning for our fellow human beings. Public spaces, on the other hand, are furnished and charged with what society as a whole wants to show and represent; they are visible to everyone, a concrete place and object of publicity and therefore open to public discussion.
If we think further, architectural spaces originate from a space of the imagination and have been transformed from this into a real public element whose laws are open to discussion. They originate from that intimate space of thought and feeling that every human being carries within themselves and from which everything man-made originates in the first place. It is the invisible and inner architecture of human existence that ultimately determines how our world is shaped by us.
This also means that as soon as we turn our intimate thought space outwards through words, images, painting, sculpture, music, but also the use of social media, etc., making it visible and tangible for others, showing and positioning ourselves in public space, we are also participating in a reciprocal process of shaping the inner life of society.
This idea means that society is constantly informing, organizing and transforming itself. And that turning the inner world outwards into the public sphere is a cornerstone of society's togetherness. If not the core of society.
“Compared with the reality that is constituted in being heard and seen, even the strongest forces of our inner life - the passions of the heart, the thoughts of the mind, the pleasure of the senses - lead an uncertain, shadowy existence, unless they are transformed, de-privatized and de-individualized, as it were, and reshaped in such a way that they find a form suitable for public appearance.” Hannah Arendt, Vita Activa
We adjust ourselves and give ourselves out. We pour ourselves out and settle in. This is based on practices that stand alone in moments and result in something large and public: Lingering, pausing, feeling, thinking, acting.
The exhibition shows a spectrum of works that deal with the
works that deal with exterior and interior life, with public and private space. Monomentum seeks forms that open up new possibilities for inhabited and habitable space. Utopian places, fragmented spaces of memory, seemingly familiar materialities and abstract visual worlds are placed in new relationships. Monomentum thus creates a space that turns the retreat outwards. From the private debate to the public arena.
Monomentum Party
Drinks & DJ Set
10.08.2024, 6 pm
Free admission
Inhabiting something does not necessarily mean moving into a building. It implies all those forms of association that give an opaque, personal and never quite tangible feeling a fixed form - only to be able to dissolve and change again and again in this very form. So how is it possible to withdraw from reality and yet find a home in the midst of it? Are there utopian models of being and living together? What creates invisible alliances and relationships?
The private four walls have long been regarded as the most intimate space, largely
largely withdrawn from the public eye and, due to their invisibility, have a rather unconcrete meaning for our fellow human beings. Public spaces, on the other hand, are furnished and charged with what society as a whole wants to show and represent; they are visible to everyone, a concrete place and object of publicity and therefore open to public discussion.
If we think further, architectural spaces originate from a space of the imagination and have been transformed from this into a real public element whose laws are open to discussion. They originate from that intimate space of thought and feeling that every human being carries within themselves and from which everything man-made originates in the first place. It is the invisible and inner architecture of human existence that ultimately determines how our world is shaped by us.
This also means that as soon as we turn our intimate thought space outwards through words, images, painting, sculpture, music, but also the use of social media, etc., making it visible and tangible for others, showing and positioning ourselves in public space, we are also participating in a reciprocal process of shaping the inner life of society.
This idea means that society is constantly informing, organizing and transforming itself. And that turning the inner world outwards into the public sphere is a cornerstone of society's togetherness. If not the core of society.
“Compared with the reality that is constituted in being heard and seen, even the strongest forces of our inner life - the passions of the heart, the thoughts of the mind, the pleasure of the senses - lead an uncertain, shadowy existence, unless they are transformed, de-privatized and de-individualized, as it were, and reshaped in such a way that they find a form suitable for public appearance.” Hannah Arendt, Vita Activa
We adjust ourselves and give ourselves out. We pour ourselves out and settle in. This is based on practices that stand alone in moments and result in something large and public: Lingering, pausing, feeling, thinking, acting.
The exhibition shows a spectrum of works that deal with the
works that deal with exterior and interior life, with public and private space. Monomentum seeks forms that open up new possibilities for inhabited and habitable space. Utopian places, fragmented spaces of memory, seemingly familiar materialities and abstract visual worlds are placed in new relationships. Monomentum thus creates a space that turns the retreat outwards. From the private debate to the public arena.
Monomentum Party
Drinks & DJ Set
10.08.2024, 6 pm
Free admission