Exhibition from 05 December 2021 to 03 July 2022 in the Hafenmuseum Speicher XI, Bremen.
A collaboration of the Bremen Centre for Building Culture, the Mariann Steegmann Institut.
Kunst & Gender and the Hafenmuseum Speicher XI.
Exhibition opening on Sunday, 5 December at 11.00 am.
The participating artists will be present.
The 2G rule and compulsory medical masks apply.
Fifteen international architectural model solutions are presented, including the "Bremer Punkt" and the "Blauhaus" as well as "Im Engenmoor 14", exemplary buildings from Bremen and Bremerhaven. In each case, the architectural and urban planning quality is examined in relation to the construction costs. It becomes clear that "good living" as a triad of high-quality materials, successful design and good infrastructure with simultaneous affordability is not only possible, but is already being successfully implemented.
In addition to the architectural examples, the central exhibition element is artistic positions that deal with fundamental questions of living.
Felix Dreesen and Paul Putzier (Bremen) are building a house out of discarded materials in front of Speicher XI during the exhibition period, making the planning and creation process tangible.
Folke Köbberling (Berlin/Braunschweig) is also concerned with the materiality of building and is setting up two walk-in sample rooms in the exhibition, built from material samples from an architectural office as well as from waste material such as excavated earth containing clay, raw wool and used thermal windows.
Jule Körperich (Bremen) meets the Bremen MusikAktionsEnsemble KLANK. In their joint project
In their joint project Ausziehn (Moving Out), they deal with the ownership of living space. KLANK's musical set-up plays around the film about a move-out from a deserted miniature flat. Film and sound intervene visually and acoustically in the space.
With her installation "Home wasn't built", Daniela Reina Téllez (Bremen) explores the question: What is a home? Architectural plans serve as material to document her living spaces of the last 30 years. She invites the viewer to gain a new understanding of space, architecture and living.
"Enabling all people to have good, affordable housing is a task for society as a whole - and a right guaranteed in Bremen's state constitution! The architecture of our cities can and must be improved to achieve this. This exhibition shows how," says Christian von Wissel, Scientific Director of the Bremen Centre for Building Culture.
Anne Schweisfurth, curator of the Hafenmuseum Speicher XI: "The Hafenmuseum is located on the border between the Überseestadt as a new quarter with enormous construction activity and Walle as a mature workers' inner-city district where the displacement process has long since begun. I would be pleased if the exhibition contributes to seriously exploring the strategies for affordable housing and makes us citizens as well as political and planning actors want to tackle this important task".
"The city as an architectural, social and cultural space is a much contested arena. In this arena, we are constantly negotiating who owns the city and how we live, how we want to live. Housing affects everyone. The artistic works critically examine our ideas of housing and forms of living and thus also broaden the view of the conflictual, which is always part of housing," adds Kathrin Heinz, director of the Mariann Steegmann Institute. Art & Gender and of the research field wohnen+/-ausstellen at the University of Bremen.
The exhibition is accompanied by a programme of events with guided tours, lectures and school class projects.
From December we will be open again Tuesdays to Sundays, from 11 am to 6 pm!
Photo header: Thomas_Kleiner
Photo gallery: Philippe Rualt
GEWOBA, STÄWOG Group of Companies, Hafenmuseum Speicher XI, b.zb Bremen Centre for Building Culture, Mariann Steegmann Institute.
CONTACT:
Claudia Seidel
Harbour Museum Speicher XI
Am Speicher XI 1
28217 Bremen
seidel@hafenmuseum-speicherelf.de
Phone: 0421-303 82 79
Prof. Dr. Christian von Wissel
Theorie der Stadt
+49 421 5905 2232
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