Announcement | Exhibition Opening | Culture:City

Kunsthaus Graz, Space02, Lendkai 1, 8020 Graz
In cooperation with the Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Opening: June 27, 2013, 6 p.m.
Press conference: June 27, 2013, 10:30 a.m.
Duration 28.06.-13.10.2013
Curators: Wilfried Wang and Matthias Sauerbruch (Berlin)
Co-curator: Wulf Walter Böttger
Curatorial support Graz: Katrin Bucher Trantow

Culture:City From Bilbao to Zeche Zollverein Please follow the link for more information: Culture:City Cultural range and its physical manifestation in the form of buildings are the driving force and content of innovative city development and planning. These days, instead of churches and castles, museums and opera houses, libraries and stadiums are found, pointing the way for cities and their inhabitants in terms of self-perception. Increasingly they take on the function of places of education, of free expression and critical intervention, making them decisive drivers of urban development. Metropol Parasol (Detail), Sevilla, 2004-2011, Photo: Fernando Alda Curated by Matthias Sauerbruch, the exhibition Culture:City is devoted to this phenomenon, shedding light on the relation between architecture and daily reality - keeping an eye out for the paradigm of the ‘Bilbao effect’ without, however, restricting itself to it. The curator has divided the 37 selected cultural buildings up into five thematic chapters. These take up the urban context and reflect the extent to which they grow out of the urban setting or how they re-define their respective cities.

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