Shows

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the WELTKUNSTZIMMER we show the large exhibition "Reality is there anyway". From different artistic perspectives, the theme of reality is considered, in installation, sculpture, video and painting.

In a distant future and a galaxy far away, to which humanity, among other species, has been transported, art has not existed for an inconceivably long time. An alien, quoting Piet Mondrian, lectures about the overcoming of art: "Then we won't need paintings and sculptures anymore, because we'll live in realized art." But when a species begins to teleport earthly works of art from the past as gifts to a planet, the authorities are forced to evaluate, to interpret these unknown objects. Dietmar Dath describes in his book Feldevayé. Roman der letzten Künste a revolution triggered by the occupation with long forgotten (art) objects, with things that their interpreters do not understand, but which in turn inspire them to creatively produce things themselves that they do not understand. So what happens to us when we rediscover art?

Back to the present, the actuality, the reality, the now, whatever we want to call it, in realities that people are confronted with in wonderful, brutal, tragic, fantastic, profane, mythical, whatever way. The definitions of reality move between uncertainty and radical construction. Neither neurobiology, which attributes our image of reality to the interpretation of the most diverse neuronal patterns and defines the human brain as the "creator" of our reality, nor physics, in which, according to Heisenberg, "objective reality" has long since "evaporated", offer liabilities. Within this uncertainty, it is the great quality of art to productively process this state of doubt, to discover potentials, to invent new realities and to develop counter-models.

Most of the works exhibited here were created within the last few years, in which the situation for artists and producers has changed, sometimes dramatically, in which the status and relevance of art production and cultural participation have been renegotiated. The title of the exhibition plays with a certain larmoyance - as a sentimental distance to what cannot be changed, as an escape from reality or what we think it is, as well as a critical potential with a view to society that demands commitment, to think along with other, alternative ideas and possibilities.

For the exhibition we have invited artists who have a special, sometimes long-standing relationship to Düsseldorf, who have studied here, exhibited in various local institutions, still work here or have left the village on the Düssel towards Brussels, Amsterdam, France, Berlin or elsewhere in the Rhineland. So we are all the more pleased to be able to welcome old friends and good acquaintances, artists whose work we have followed and appreciated over the years, back to Düsseldorf for the 10th anniversary of the WELTKUNSTZIMMER.

- Text by Janine Blöß & Thomas W. Rieger