Charlotte Perriand. L'Art d'habiter / Die Kunst des Wohnens
In the organizer's words:
With the exhibition L'Art d'habiter / The Art of Living, the Kunstmuseen Krefeld are dedicating the first comprehensive retrospective in Germany to the French architect and designer Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999). As one of the most influential personalities from Le Corbusier's circle, she shaped modern living through her combination of innovative design with positive social change.
The show is being created in close collaboration with the Charlotte Perriand Archives and takes a look at Perriand's life's work from the perspective of spatial art. From her early iconic tubular steel furniture to the experimental minimalist dwellings of the interwar period, the modular storage systems of the post-war years and her Gesamtkunstwerk - the alpine ski resort Les Arcs - L'Art d'habiter presents Perriand's design program and her social commitment through the design of living spaces. Her work proves to be remarkably topical - not only with regard to contemporary architecture and design issues, but also in view of pressing ecological and social challenges.
As the main exhibition of the year 2025, the exhibition will be on show at the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum (KWM) and in the Lange and Esters houses built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. A multifaceted and lively picture of Charlotte Perriand's work will unfold at these three exhibition venues. The focus is on her dialog with the environment, nature, foreign cultures, her political stance and her reflected relationship to traditional craftsmanship in the field of tension of industrial production. The exhibition also sheds light on Perriand's exploration of photography and photomontage - media with which she deepened the social dimension of her artistic thinking.
KWM
Among the precious loans from renowned international institutions are numerous rare original pieces of furniture, archive documents, photographs and film footage. Walk-in room reconstructions bring Perriand's design to life. Her design program from the 1920s to the 1970s can be traced in thematic sections.
Haus Lange
The presentation in Haus Lange is dedicated to Perriand's central leitmotif of a synthesis of the arts and takes an in-depth look at her stays in Japan, Indochina and Brazil. The focus is also on her transcultural dialogs and collaborations with important artistic personalities such as Fernand Léger and Isamu Noguchi.
House Esters
In Haus Esters, Charlotte Perriand's work is placed in an international context through selected positions of modern and contemporary art. Highlights from the design collection of the Kunstmuseen Krefeld illustrate the lasting impact of her work - and its unbroken relevance in the present day.
Thanks to Cassina, the exhibition's premium partner, which is committed to the dissemination of design culture, a faithful reconstruction of the groundbreaking Équipement intérieur d'une habitation designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand for the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1929 will be on display. Intensive philological research and generous loans from the Italian design company will also enable visitors to experience more than just Perriand's visionary early works. Her later projects, including faithful reconstructions of designs for the groundbreaking exhibitions in Tokyo in 1940 and 1955, where she created a unique synthesis of Western modernism and Japanese tradition, are also on display at the Kunstmuseen Krefeld.
An exhibition cooperation between the Kunstmuseen Krefeld, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg and the Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona.
Curated by Katia Baudin with Waleria Dorogova, with special support from Pernette Perriand-Barsac and Jacques Barsac from the Charlotte Perriand Archive.
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Kaiser Wilhelm Museum adults 8 euros reduced 4 euros Haus Lange Haus Esters adults 8 euros reduced 4 euros Joint ticket for all three museums adults 14 euros reduced 5 euros up to 18 years Free admission
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