Das öffentliche Grün

In the organizer's words:

The group exhibition The Public Green at the Kunstmuseum Bochum is dedicated to Bochum's city park, which is celebrating its 150th birthday this year. As one of the oldest publicly accessible parks in the Ruhr region, it was created in 1876 on the site of the former Allmende, the city's communal farmland and pastureland. Where cows, sheep and goats once grazed, people now stroll, play, flirt, dream and much more. The exhibition grows out of the museum and into the park, viewing it as a multi-layered biotope full of stories and asking what the current situation is regarding the sharing of space and resources. Can the park still be thought of today as common land that nourishes us as an urban society? And where are the shared, jointly managed resources today?

In the exhibition rooms on the first floor of the Kunstmuseum, which are visually connected to the outside space thanks to the large windows, new productions, loans and works from the collection form a landscape that, alongside all the euphoria, also brings moments of friction to the utopia of the city park.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Anikẹ Joyce Sadiq, Black Archive Germany, bureaumilieux, Dagie Brundert, Émile Ratier, Fokus Grupa, FreelingWaters, Helena Wittmann, INLAND, Irène Mélix, Lin May Saeed, Lütfiye Güzel, Maria Renee Morales Garcia, Marina Naprushkina, Marleen Rothaus, Olu Ogunnaike, Peter Piller, Randomroutines, Taka Kagitomi and Thomas Geiger.