This house does not tolerate wind, rain even less. But in the Gloriettl right on the pond in Murnau’s Seidl Park, the fragile work of art entitled “Art is a house” is safe. The bathhouse Emanuel von Seidls, which was reconstructed only a few years ago, is one of the four locations of the exhibition “rethought”, in which 22 artists participate.
For two and a half years, Hans Angerer only read newspapers with a scalpel, cutting out every sentence that contained art. That has already become an obsession, says the Steingaden artist, who is driven by the question of what art actually is. His finds, first glued to 32 sheets of paper and then transferred to transparent foil, now form a pointed-gabled house in which you can spend a lot of time reading.
Ekkehard Gorski provided the impetus for the lavish exhibition that the Murnauer Kunstverein set up. The engineer, who lives in Murnau in retirement, had developed transparent protective masks during the pandemic that were selling well. Gorski donated two-thirds of his profits to social and cultural causes. The Kunstverein also received a larger sum and, under the artistic direction of Heribert Riesenhuber, decided on a project with works that were created against the background of the past two pandemic years.
The approach can be felt most strongly in the sculpture garden around the Villa Reinherz (Am Kapferberg 1), the former summer villa of Seidl’s sister Therese. Since 2012, the house has belonged to the Munich Antonie-Zauner-Foundation, which has been using it as a guest house since the successful renovation. There, Guido Weggenmann’s “Heart” throbs in the garden, Silke Lühr’s colorful “Holzweg” ends in the air, Raquel Ribeiro’s and Jürgen Jaumann’s enchanting Plexiglas structures swing, the visitor almost stumbles over Judith Egger’s Deluxe Wurm Hotel, the wellness area for stressed worms .
In the Murnau Culture and Conference Center, Heng Li rehabilitates the bat in a large-format oil painting, which, at least before the pandemic, was considered a symbol of good luck in traditional Chinese culture. Rita de Muynck’s installation “Follow The Girls” or Christian Schönwalder’s hikers staggering through the landscape, completely isolated by body taping, are also cryptic and a little bizarre there. Also worth seeing is the contribution in the gallery of the Kunstverein (Gabriele-Münter-Platz). There, Johannes Kroeker created a sound model, to whose impulses four young artists react creatively in their respective medium.
Redesigned, until July 22, daily from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at various locations. The Gloriettl is only open on July 20th. open from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Info below www.neuged8.de