Da Vinci, Rivera, and now: The Munich Mural?
Alluding to the politically and religiously charged history of mural painting, the Munich Mural project questions what the mural at Marienhof actually conveys to passersby. The 350-meter-long rendering combines stock photos of fictional passersby with photographs of Marienhof and is intended to depict a Munich of the future. Yet there are glaring gaps.
The Munich Mural stand offers audio guides and tours of the new attraction. Visual nuances are examined through an art-historical lens. In the evening, passersby can listen to a sound installation of the noise barrier on MP3 players.
Lee Kern, born in Berlin in 2000, lives and works in Munich and Berlin.
Within Public Art München Focus Year and its generous, overall focus on how we communicate and interact with our surroundings, rediscovering the public space as a place of multiple possibilities, the framework of the Invisible City proposes a further deepening of these core concerns. Five young artists – Noemi Calzavara & Marlotte Nugteren, Geumok Oh, Lee Kern, Mariateresa Molino, Carla Vollmers, all part of or having graduated from the Performance class at the Academy of Fine Arts, show individual performative works in the context curated by Alexandra Pirici (artist and professor for Performance at AdBK Munich). Their works reveal or refocus attention on less visible aspects and dynamics: of the public space and its collective construction, of the social fabric of the city, or even of the city’s natural environment and its psychogeography. Spread across various locations – Marienplatz, transit nodes, the Isar river, children’s playgrounds or monument sites, the performative actions propose interruptions, reconstructions, subtle changes or attunements in relation to places and bodies both material and imagined, both living and object-like, inviting us to consider them anew.
Performances
Friday, 3 July, 4 – 9 pm
Location: Marienhof
Saturday, 4 July, 2 – 9 Uhr
Location: Marienhof
