The rain is pattering against the large window front of the paint shop. A mild Friday evening has turned into a summer thunderstorm. Young people in baggy jeans and colorful dresses are bustling about on the window sills in the interior. You look at an exhibition room filled with photo series of faces of musicians and the beats of Rumi, Kardz Beats and Hobl. More than 200 people – at least as many art amateurs as photography enthusiasts – came to celebrate the young Munich art scene. You have come to see the “10 squared” exhibition.
Before the storm rolled up, many young people gathered in front of the Farbenladen to discuss the Munich art scene.
(Photo: Robert Haas)
See you again at the vernissage: the musicians Isabel Leila Gütlein (Gündalein) and Laura Glauber (Lauraine) and the photographer Shahin Hefter (from left to right) marvel at the results of the joint project.
(Photo: Robert Haas)
“It’s so nice to see the people here, how happy they are that we can experience and create art together,” says Nicole Salowa, author on the young people’s page Süddeutsche Zeitung. It is a special day for her and the rest of the team of young journalists, because for this evening they became the organizers of a photo exhibition that young Munich so urgently needed, says Nicole: “This city has so much potential, so much creativity and just missing the damn rooms.”
Moritz Rühm, a visitor, is at an art exhibition for the first time. He imagined it to be “a bit more elitist”. The relaxed atmosphere convinced him just as much as the diverse series of photos. “Everyone has a feature that stands out so blatantly, no one has even remotely done the same thing,” says Moritz about the photographers involved. For “10 im Quadrat” the same ten musicians stood in front of nine different cameras. But although the models remained the same, one searches in vain for similarities between the photos. “The differences are so stark – even though it was the same project for everyone, everyone brought their own touch,” says Eva Bregler, another visitor.
In the meantime the rain has let up, the beats fade away. While some get one last beer, the others are already on their way home. It is the end of an evening dedicated to the young, networked art scene. An evening that Munich needs so many more of. And even when the vernissage of “10 im Quadrat” comes to an end, the exhibition can still be seen on all weekends in May.
10 squared 2023Feierwerk Farbenladen, Hansastraße 31, Sat. and Sun. in May, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m