Check-in Europe. Reflecting Identities in Contemporary Art. Munich, 18 May - 13 July 2006
From 18 May to 13 July 2006, the European Patent Office (EPO) in Munich (Germany) will be exhibiting works by 47 young artists on the theme of identity in Europe. The artists are from the 31 member states of the European Patent Organisation. Under the title "Check-in Europe: Reflecting Identities in Contemporary Art", they will address the central topic from a variety of angles and in a range of media, from painting, drawing and photography to sculpture and video installations.The exhibition is the first part of a two-year project. It has been assembled by five international curators: Marius Babias (Romania/Germany), Beral Madra ( Turkey), Marketta Seppälä ( Finland) / Veronica Wiman ( Sweden) and Erno Vroonen (Belgium). The list of featured artists includes a number of prominent names: Hussein Chalayan, Asta Gröting, Lia Perjovschi, Daniel Knorr, Regina Möller, Frida Fjellman and Róza El-Hassan, and the photographer and Turner Prize winner Richard Billingham.
The first two sections of the exhibitions are located in the EPO's main building at Erhardtstrasse 27; "Identity Fusion" presents works which challenge the notions of identity, ethnicity and nationalism, while exploring new potential forms of community in the Europe of the future; "p2p" (peer-to-peer) provides a platform for constructing possibilities of identity in the age of the internet. The third part of the exhibition, "Urbanscape/Innerscape/Socioscape", is located in the newly opened Phase VII building at Bayerstrasse 115; this section inspects the traces of collective memory in the urban landscape and seeks to sharpen the individual perception of everyday reality.
The exhibition will be open until the 13th of July 2006.
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