Productive Spaces. Art and Design from Krefeld

Sun, Mar 26, 2023–Sun, Sep 10, 2023

Haus Esters, Haus Lange

The artists exhibiting in Haus Lange are:
Hans Joachim Albrecht, Barbara Adamek, Soya Arakawa, Gaby Baltha, Frank Bernemann, Otto Boll, Mechtild Brahms, Astrid Busch, Volker Döhne, Simon Erath, Uwe Esser, Setsuko Fukushima, °dorisundgilla/2zkdb°, Sibylle Gröne, Gerhard Hahn, Wolfgang Hahn, Brigitta Heidtmann, Maike Jansen, Doris Kaiser, Gudrun Kemsa, Thomas Klegin, Mathias Lanfer, Lydia Mammes, Monika Nelles, Thomas Pöhler, Claudia Reich, REICHRICHTER, Matthias Schamp, Martin Schüten, Nicole Schwarzbach, Susanne Specht, Birgitta Thaysen, Johannes Trittien, Finn Wagner

The designers exhibiting in Haus Esters are:
Hermann Becker, betont.es, Lennart Ebert, Manfred Emmenegger-Kanzler, Formkultur, Kerstin Froch, Michael Grandt, Amanda Haas, Norbert Krause, Kunstflug, NIRUK, Nika Rams, Florian Saul, Raphael Schmitz, Antje Schwittmann-Schops, sputnic Visual Arts, Vera Stassen, Julia Timmer, Petra Wolf, Julia Zejn

This major exhibition project comprehensively documents current positions in art and design under a guiding theme: almost 50 artists of all generations and disciplines who work in Krefeld and the surrounding area or who have had a notable influence on the city through spending a significant amount of time here have been invited to participate. The works on display are from the worlds of painting, sculpture, photography and performance, but also from product, communication and social design. The artworks are presented in Haus Lange, the design objects in Haus Esters, while outdoor sculptures are on view in the gardens. The exhibition examines space from various perspectives—whether social, political, communicative, economic or virtual, physical or conceptual—both in close relation to Krefeld and its community as well as much further afield. The interplay between analog and digital spaces as well as real and virtual places is thus rendered visible in many different ways. In keeping with the city’s 650th anniversary, Produktive Räume (Productive Spaces) illuminates the diversity of artistic production that has long shaped—and continues to shape—Krefeld and the surrounding region as an art and design landscape.