Folkwang takes visitors on a trip around the world
Under the motto "Distant lands, distant times", the Museum Folkwang in Essen will be showing a large exhibition of travel posters from the 19th century onwards next year - accompanied by texts by Büchner Prize winner Felicitas Hoppe. Museum director Peter Gorschlüter presented the program for the coming year on Tuesday.
Until well into the 20th century, travel around the world was reserved for the wealthy few. According to the museum, the 300 or so posters on display thus became "areas of longing" in their day, with the vast majority of journeys only taking place in the mind.
The exhibition is to end with a 21st century poster on space travel - another project that was only imagined by the vast majority.
For the European Football Championship in Germany 2024, artist and soccer fan Andreas Slominski is presenting over 80 soccer posters in the museum, combined with his own works on the subject. A photo exhibition focuses on hair styles and hairstyles as an expression of personality.
Gorschlüter explained in advance that the museum had set itself the task of opening up the museum even more than before to projects and people outside the traditional museum audience. Over the next three years, the Essen-based energy company Eon will be supporting the Museum Folkwang with a total of 600,000 euros with a focus on projects involving people from different backgrounds.
One of the first of these projects is "Grow it, show it" with historical and contemporary photos through to Tik Tok on the subject of hair and hairstyles, said Gorschlüter according to the press release. The way people show or hide their head, beard or armpit hair reveals a lot about their cultural or religious background.
The large exhibition at Museum Folkwang will feature travel posters as a form of artistic expression, showcasing distant lands and times. With the exhibition concluding on a 21st century space travel poster, it highlights how such projects were once merely imagined, linking to the history of art and human exploration.
Source: www.dpa.com
