White Cube / Black Box
Art in the Container – Contemporary Art in School
Kunsthaus Dresden, Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, in cooperation with the Marie-Curie-Gymnasium, 30. Mittelschule Dresden-Neustadt and Vitzthum-Gymnasium in Dresden, as well as pupils from Mittelschule Weixdorf, the Dreikönigsgymnasium and the Evangelisches Kreuzgymnasium.
Funded by the Sächsische Staatsministerium für Kultus and the European Social Fund in the framework of the idea competition ›Heraus-Forderung! Ganzheitliches Lernen im Projekt!‹
Project duration: September 2009 to July 2011
›White Cube / Black Box‹ is a project of pupils, initiated by Kunsthaus Dresden. The foremost aim of the project is to bring architecture, design and contemporary art to schools in an holistic process. Based on containers, a temporary art space emerges. The exhibition building is designed by youths and travels from school to school. Until the summer of 2011, the project seeks to develop three exhibitions that by means of contemporary art address topics related to the everyday life of youths and adults in various ways.
In spring of 2010, the first joint exhibition dedicated to the term ›Luxury‹ was successfully presented on the premises of the Marie-Curie-Gymnasium. Questions were raised as to what we understand as luxury and what kind of luxury is still up-to-date today.
The second show has been on view from November 6 - December 5, 2010. The jointly chosen theme is the future. In an experimental way, a view is cast to the year 2050, which all those involved in the project can experience. Personal hopes and common ideals, utopias but also justified doubts about them; the question of preserving values and the validity of design and architecture are the subject of the architectural and design-oriented conceptions, as well as the artistic projects and spatial designs on view in the show.
Early February 2011 the preparations will start for the third exhibition, opening in June on the premises of the new built Vitzthum-Gymnasium. The show will be dealing with the topic of recycling and the commonly by the pupils voted for as the interesting question of re-using, rebuilding or re-interpreting materials, ideas and ideals.
›White Cube / Black Box‹ turns part of the school into a public site for culture and a crystallization point for wishes, ideas and competences that also carry weight outside of school.
Architecture, art and design can convey essential competences that play an important role in regard to one’s own lifestyle, to living together in society and to one’s professional life. The task of building a temporary architecture seeking to combine sophisticated functions is one of the most exciting endeavours for the future and imparts many details of architectural knowledge, from the site plan via the building application all the way to the interior design for an exhibition. In contemporary art, themes are negotiated that we also deal with regarding personal wishes and life plans, worries and hopes. Diverse media are employed: drawing, painting, sculpture, but also video and digital design. The graphic design and communication of a product, whether it is created using traditional or digital media, decisively determines a project’s success. Exhibitions of contemporary art are promoted by flyers and ads, the public is reached via press releases and the successful placing of an event in the media. The design is augmented by public relations. What information is needed, how can an informative text be written for the press, and to whom must it be sent? It must also be carefully considered how the visitors of an exhibition are to be treated on site: How can it be achieved that they are satisfied and inspired when they leave the show? What kind of information on the artistic projects should be communicated to them? How can an exchange with the audience be initiated in a direct conversation, a guided tour or a discussion? And how can one develop questions in a project and come up with one’s own answers that lead to insights and point in new directions for oneself and others?
Participation in the project
Eligible for participation are pupils of grammar and secondary schools in Dresden starting with 7th grade. Registrations or applications for participation are possible via the addresses listed under Contact. The number of participants is limited to 55 pupils. Feel free to ask about further details. The project ›White Cube / Black Box‹ is organised and professionally accompanied by Kunsthaus Dresden, Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst in Dresden.
Cooperation and Funding
The project is carried out in cooperation with the Marie-Curie-Gymnasium, the 30. Mittelschule and the Vitzthum-Gymnasium, as well as with pupils from the Mittelschule Weixdorf, the Dreikönigsgymnasium and the Evangelisches Kreuzgymnasium. It is funded by the Sächsische Staatsministerium für Kultus and the European Social Fund in the framework of the idea competition ›Heraus-Forderung! Ganzheitliches Lernen im Projekt!‹. The company FAGSI Vertriebs- und Vermietungs GmbH could be won as a sponsor providing the containers.
Eligible for participation are pupils in grammar and secondary schools in Dresden starting with 7th grade. Registrations or applications for participation are possible via the addresses listed under Contact. The number of participants is limited to 55 pupils; there are still capacities for the third project phase 2010/11. Feel free to ask about further details.
Pupils
Maryna Belevtsova
Maja Behrmann
Victoria Bloy
Gidon Bohnacker
Jana Eisoldt
Nadja Fiebig
Victoria Frenze
Mandeepa Gerlach
Lena Giering
Jannis Graul
Camillo Gulde
Hans Christian Hegewald
Anne Hennig
Linda Hennig
Dien Linh Hoang
Paul Hübler
Philipp Körner
Julia Jahn
Rebekka Raja Jahn
Hai An Le
Linda Ma
Albina Maksudova
Paul Matthay
Eva Metzker
Josepha Mosler
Nicole Müller
Eric Nielsen
Linh Ngoc Nguyen
Karolin Opitz
Saskia von Reppert
Kristin Rißmann
Khadija Saidi
Laura Scadock
Jascha Schulze
Robert Seidenglanz
Friederike Spitzer
Viktor Waldleben
Jasmin Wehner
Vivian Wippich
Team of experts LUXUS / LUXURY
Art:
Antje Schiffers (Berlin)
Christian Sievers (Berlin)
Cosima Tribukeit (Dresden)
Architecture:
Roland Züger, studio tz (Dresden)
Design:
Jakob Kirch and Pascal Storz (Leipzig)
Management and curatorial instruction:
Katja Stintz (Dresden)
Team of experts ZUKUNFT 2050 / FUTURE 2050
Art:
Bernd Klilian (Dresden)
Tobias Köbsch (Dresden)
Karoline Schmidt (Dresden)
Architecture:
Roland Züger, studio tz (Dresden)
Robert Thiele (Dresden)
Design:
Jakob Kirch and Pascal Storz (Leipzig)
Project management and curatorial instruction:
Katja Stintz (Dresden)
Daniela Hoferer, Assistant (Dresden)
Contact ›White Cube / Black Box‹
Christiane Mennicke
Artistic Director Kunsthaus and ›White Cube / Black Box‹
Telephone: 0351 804 14 56
Mobile: 0171 377 49 33
cmennicke(at)dresden.de
Katja Stintz
Project management and curatorial instruction
Telephone: 0351 804 14 77
Mobile: 0173 905 21 61
KStintz(at)dresden.de
Architectural Concept and Implementation
Studio TZ, Roland Züger
Mobile: 0178 232 93 41
rz(at)studiotz.net
Kunsthaus Dresden
Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst
Rähnitzgasse 8, 01097 Dresden
Telephone: 0351 804 14 56
Fax: 0351 804 15 82
kunsthaus(at)dresden.de
www.kunsthausdresden.de
www.walden3.de
Exhibitions
ZUKUNFT 2050 /
FUTURE 2050
Exhibition of Contemporary Art in School
November 6 – December 5, 2010
Following the successful presentation of the first exhibition on the concept of luxury, the second show of the project is on view from November 06 - December 05, 2010. The jointly chosen theme is the future. In an experimental way, a view is cast to the year 2050, which all those involved in the project can experience. Personal hopes and common ideals, utopias but also justified doubts about them; the question of preserving values and the validity of design and architecture are the subject of the architectural and design-oriented conceptions, as well as the artistic projects and spatial designs on view in the show.
The group of architects asked themselves whether the future is round or angular, and designed a complex geometrical exterior facade in dynamic lightweight construction, transforming the containers into an opaque spaceship and inviting visitors to float to the future together. The journey already starts in the entrance area with the drawing of a futuristic airport, the departure and arrival point of various travels to the future depicted in the comics made by Karoline Schmidt’s group. The team of artist Tobias Köbsch deals with the present and what should be kept of it in the future. The result is a part of a present-day teenager’s bedroom whose desk has been transformed into a museal display by preserving everything on it in wax for eternity. Hence, one looks through the eyes of a future museum-goer at what was once valuable to young people in 2010. The team of filmmaker Bernd Kilian didn’t look to the future either, but instead questioned today’s urban and social situations in the face of its strangeness, also seeking the way people in the future will regard the present-day. Three short films on movement, communication and money were produced and is synchronously screened as a triple projection. In addition, the steps and results of the learning and working process of graphic design have been documented in a magazine published in a small edition, which is presented in the show alongside more sophisticatedly conceived posters.
Blog
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Guided Tours
Interested groups and school classes can book guided tours of the exhibition at any time, also outside the opening hours, as well as an introduction to the project at kunsthaus(at)dresden.de or by phone under 0351-8041456.
The project is carried out in cooperation with the Marie-Curie-Gymnasium, the 30. Mittelschule and the Vitzthum-Gymnasium and is funded by the Sächsische Staatsministerium für Kultus and the European Social Fund in the framework of the idea competition ›Heraus-Forderung! Ganzheitliches Lernen im Projekt!‹.
Opening Hours
November 6 – December 5, 2010
Thu / Fri: 4 – 7 pm
Sat / Sun: 2 – 7 pm
Free admission!
Location
30. Mittelschule
Hechtstraße 55
01097 Dresden
Schoolyard behind the school building
Entrance via Johann-Meyer-Straße
Events
Friday, November 5, 2010, 6 pm
Opening
Speakers:
Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz (Artistic Director Kunsthaus Dresden) and Katja Stintz (Project Head ›White Cube / Black Box‹): Words of welcome
Manfred Wiemer, (Director of the Amt für Kultur und Denkmalschutz der Landeshauptstadt Dresden): Greeting
Pupils of the project: Introduction to the exhibition
Afterwards, party with DJ Linhish
Saturday, November 20, 12 am
›Future Shorts‹
An experimental and entertaining short film programme on the theme of the future, compiled and presented by Bernd Kilian (Dresden)
Susanne Quester: Finow, 2002, 7 min.
Raphael Wahl: X, D 2005, 6 min.
Jan Peters, Marie-Catherine Theiler: Time’s up, 2009, 15 min.
Markus Mischkowski, Kai Maria Steinkühler: Waldmeister, 2007, 8 min.
CVJM Wilsdruff: Krieg und es hat doch Spaß gemacht, 2007, 15 min.
Thomas Oberlies, Matthias Vogel: Arbeit für alle, 2009, 10 min.
Corinna Schnitt: Living a beautiful life, 2005, 12 min
Jan Koester: Our man in Nirvana, 2005, 10 min
Kyne Uhlig, Nikolaus Hillebrand: Strom sparen, 2009, 3 min.
Marc Schleiss u.a.: Video 3000, 2006, 5 min.
Location: Kunsthaus Dresden, Rähnitzgasse 8, 01097 Dresden
Saturday, November 27, 12 am
›Trickreiche Zukunft‹
Based on examples, the film artist and sound designer Martin Kleinmichel (Berlin) demonstrates how animated and feature films will increasingly complement each other in the future.
Location: Kunsthaus Dresden, Rähnitzgasse 8, 01097 Dresden
Friday, December 3, 5 pm
Guided tour of the exhibition
In a conversation with their professional instructors, Jakob Kirch and Pascal Storz (design), Bernd Kilian, Tobias Köbsch, Karoline Schmidt (art) and Roland Züger (architecture), the pupils present their path to the exhibition ZUKUNFT 2050 / FUTURE 2050.
Location: in the exhibition (container), Hechtstraße 55, 01097 Dresden (schoolyard)
LUXUS / LUXURY
Exhibition of Contemporary Art in School
April 17 – May 16, 2010
The first joint project within the frame of the project ›White Cube / Black Box‹ on the premises of the Marie-Curie-Gymnasium deals with the theme of luxury. What is luxury nowadays? A mansion and many expensive cars? A fountain full of chocolate? A pretty dress? Or rather fresh potatoes in the school cafeteria? In three artistic work groups instructed by the artists Antje Schiffers, Christian Sievers and Cosima Tribukeit, the youths present the artistic results of their personal and research-based ways of dealing with the theme of luxury. Since last October, the groups have been working on the project, developing architectural plans and posters, and interviewing other youths on their conceptions and wishes regarding luxury. The ideas have been implemented with a great deal of imagination and remarkably skilful handicraft work. The bit of abundance and enjoyment of life also enters into realms of life that were hitherto hardly suspicious of being luxurious: In the container one can find the luxury store ›La Tempete‹, with masterly embroidered lab coats and inlays for ordinary backrests of school chairs. An ingrain wallpaper is artistically upgraded by the fleur de lys, and a host of other secrets of making everyday life luxurious await the visitor.
The exhibition and architecture developed with teams of experts from the field of architecture (Roland Züger, studio tz, Dresden), design (Jakob Kirch & Pascal Storz, Leipzig) and art (Cosima Tribukeit, Dresden; Antje Schiffers, Berlin; Christian Sievers, Berlin) are on view from April 17th until May 16th, 2010, in the schoolyard of the Marie-Curie-Gymnasium. The posters and the graphic design of the container’s exterior walls also examine formal aspects of the longing for luxury. The results of the graphic research and the development process leading to the final appearance are documented in a magazine printed in a small edition.
Guided Tours
Interested groups and school classes can book guided tours of the exhibition at any time, also outside the opening hours, as well as an introduction to the project at kunsthaus(at)dresden.de.
The project is carried out in cooperation with the Marie-Curie-Gymnasium, the 30. Mittelschule and the Vitzthum-Gymnasium and is funded by the Sächsische Staatsministerium für Kultus and the European Social Fund in the framework of the idea competition ›Heraus-Forderung! Ganzheitliches Lernen im Projekt!‹.
Opening Hours
April 17 – May 16, 2010
Wed / Thu: 11:25 – 11:45 am (long break)
Thu / Fri: 4 – 7 pm
Sat / Sun: 2 – 7 pm
Free admission!
Location
Marie-Curie-Gymnasium (branch)
Terrassenufer 15
01069 Dresden
Schoolyard behind the school building
Entrance also via Ziegelstraße
Events
Friday, April 16, 2010, 7 pm
Opening with auction and DJ
Speakers:
Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz (Artistic Director Kunsthaus Dresden) and Katja Stintz (Project Head ›White Cube / Black Box‹): Words of Welcome
Dr. Ralf Lunau (Mayor of Cultural Affairs of the City of Dresden): Greeting
Cubists: Introduction to the exhibition
The team instructed by Antje Schiffers has created a store for luxury articles named ›la tempete‹ within the frame of the exhibition. The displayed luxury items will be auctioned on the opening evening. The pupils have decided that the proceeds of the auction will be donated to the Treberhilfe Dresden e.V. The auction will be held after the introduction.
Monday, April 19, 2010, 7 pm
Artists’ Talk
In a conversation with their professional instructors, Jakob Kirch (design), Antje Schiffers, Christian Sievers, Cosima Tribukeit (art) and Roland Züger (architecture), the pupils will present their joint path to the exhibition LUXUS / LUXURY!
Monday, April 26, 2010, 7 pm
Expert’s Talk
›Luxury on Stage‹
Christine Hoppe, actress and member of Staatsschauspiel Dresden talks with pupils about taking on roles and the richness on stage and in real life based on the example of the play ›Der Besuch der Alten Dame‹.
Monday, May 10, 2010, 7 pm
Expert’s Talk
›Commitment to Art and Society‹
The attorney, collector and sponsor Stefan Heinemann in a discussion with pupils on charity and civil society and on his personal commitment to promoting art and young people in Dresden.
Venue
Marie-Curie-Gymnasium (branch)
Terrassenufer 15
01069 Dresden
Schoolyard behind the school building
Entrance also via Ziegelstraße