Exhibition Et tout ceci est vrai! on the museum ship Evolutie at the Krefeld-Uerdingen harbor entrance, on both days 10.00 to 8.00 p.m.
Performances by Nevin Aladağ, Marie-Caroline Hominal and Keren Cytter
This summer, the Museum Tinguely in Basel will celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary by weighing anchor and embarking on a very special journey. Museum Tinguely AHOY! is devoted to taking the art of Jean Tinguely (1925–1991), one of the greatest and most innovative Swiss artists of the twentieth century, to the people on a specially converted barge. The stations of the MS Evolutie will be places of relevance to Tinguely’s artistic career, from Paris to Antwerp and Amsterdam, and from there upriver through the ur-ban centers of the Rhine-Ruhr region and back to Basel.
Krefeld was an important station in Tinguely’s career. His first museum exhibition worldwide took place here in 1960 at Haus Lange, a dependence of the Kunstmuseen Krefeld since 1955. The Kunstmuseen Krefeld is therefore very pleased to be involved in this special project of Museum Tinguely. The museum ship Evolutie will dock at the promenade in Krefeld-Uerdingen on August 25 & 26. There, visitors can view the exhibi-tion dedicated to Tinguely, Et tout ceci est vrai!, for which free online tickets can be booked via the Museum Tinguely website.
The ship will also host free workshops for schools in the morning (already fully booked) and for children and families on thursday afternoon from 2:30 to 4:30 pm (still bookable): Message in a Bottle. For more information and to register, please contact us at: servicekunstmuseen@krefeld.de.
In conjunction with this special project, the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum is presenting a room with works by Jean Tinguely as part of the series Collection in Motion. 15 Rooms, 15 Stories.
3.00 to 3.15 p.m. Body Instruments by Nevin Aladağ
Performance, 15 minutes
Ort: pier MS Evolutie
A performer straps musical instruments to his or her body and walks through the urban space with them. The two accordions, bells and drums carried on the head are played by his or her own body movements. What emerges is a piece of experimental music that balances unavoidable sounds, such as those produced by walking, with the poetic tones emanating from the artist’s deliberately initiated movements.
5.15 to 5.30 p.m Body Instruments by Nevin Aladağ
Performance, 15 minutes
Venue: Haus Lange
A performer straps musical instruments to his or her body and walks through the urban space with them. The two accordions, bells and drums carried on the head are played by his or her own body movements. What emerges is a piece of experimental music that balances unavoidable sounds, such as those produced by walking, with the poetic tones emanating from the artist’s deliberately initiated movements.
6.00 to 6.30 p.m. Eurêka, c'est presque le titre by Marie-Caroline Hominal
Performance, 30 minutes
Venue: Haus Lange
The artist dances a sequence of numbers on a large silver disc of a stage. John Cage and Jean Tinguely appear in a dream, a witch rides a broomstick and an object-creature comes to life. Hominal operates with various found objects that gradually cluster together to form an assemblage. Similarly, one after another the various numbers in this piece cluster together to form a colourful yet harmonious picture of an imaginary, tragicomic world.
7:30 to 8.10 p.m. The Lady of the Lake by Keren Cytter
Performance, 40 minutes, in English
Venue: Kaiser Wilhelm Museum
This theatre piece consists of a dialogue performed by the actress Fernanda Farah and the actor Damian Rebgetz. The play is a combination of storytelling, singing, dancing and stand-up comedy. Two individuals recall what is most memorable about their lives, such as belonging to a rowing club as a child or having five husbands. The poignant and sometimes absurdly comical dialogue meanders from one association to the next. Woven into it are Cytter’s incisive metaphors and precise analyses of contemporary society.