What was it like when there was no Google Maps, no Street View, no Google Earth? When you couldn’t visually beam yourself to any hotspot in the world with just one click? When it wasn’t so easy to explore every city, see every street, explore every coastline? It wasn’t that long ago, on February 8, 2005 to be precise, that Maps was launched in the USA. Since then, the measurement of the world using satellites from space has gained rapid momentum and has reached unimagined dimensions. But not in unprecedented sharpness, like the work “Nadir” by Paul Kolling in the Munich Kunstverein (until April 21st).
For his film work, Kolling examined the history of aerial photography. Thanks to aerophotogrammetry, it was possible to record the Earth from the air quite well more than 100 years ago.
Using image data from Hansa Luftbild GmbH, particularly from the 1920s to 1940s, Kolling designed a cinematic scenario that seems strange and familiar at the same time. And the replica of an original box that once measured the world hanging from airplanes (on loan from the German Museum) is an additional curiosity. At that time, the most precise images of the terrain and traffic were of course not used for Hinz and Kunz’s holiday planning, but rather gave the generals advantages in times of war. At least that has remained the same.
The exhibition takes you back to the middle of the 19th century, when Munich’s Glockenbachviertel flourished thanks to craft and industrial businesses such as the Frank lamp and sheet metal factory Frank. Jewish life in the Glockenbachviertel. During the Nazi era, the Franks were deported or had to emigrate. In the Mim, the small space for culture by Miro Craemer, objects from Werner Löw’s collection as well as an artistic contribution from Lilo Hirschfeld now commemorate the Franks (until March 17th).
The Henry family, Richard, Olga (née Frank) and Frank Goyert, around 1938.
(Photo: Henry Goyert)
The exhibition is also about collecting and remembering “Recipe” in Lothringer 13 go (March 8th to April 14th). The municipal exhibition hall travels very far back, namely to antiquity. Even back then there were written cooking instructions. “Recipe” invites you to an artistic, intercultural exchange based on cooking recipes with Diana Galli, Barbara Karrer, Marlene Franz Bautz, Aki Kiefer, Sári Zagyvai and Beáta Szabó. This could be an almost alchemical, olfactory and possibly even culinary experience. Because “many cooks spoil the broth”.
An old art form continues to fascinate contemporary artists such as Christian Boltanski and Kara Walker: shadow play. The Munich artist Sebastian Pöllmann has under the title “What is Life” for the municipal art library a shadow play made up of 36 paper cutouts hanging from the ceiling. The World Unfolding in Light can be seen until March 15th.
Sebastian Pöllmann’s delicate shadow play “What is Life” sets the rooms of the Artothek in motion.
(Photo: Sebastian Pöllmann)
An action leads into the here and now Space Louis Vuitton for its tenth anniversary. “One Week” is the name of the series in which students from Peter Kogler’s class from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich deliver a daily performance. “One Week” at Espace started this Monday and runs until Sunday, March 10th (each time at 7 p.m.).