Never Give Up The Spot
October 19, 2018–February 3, 2019
VS—temporary home of Museum Villa Stuck
Goethestraße 54
80336 Munich
Germany
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 12–8pm
villastuck@muenchen.de
Free admission! All are welcome!
Never Give Up The Spot represents an experiment to combine destruction and creation. To this end, Thomas Hirschhorn transforms the Museum Villa Stuck into a ruin. There are shelters inside the ruin which invite visitors to be present, engage in discussions, arrange to meet and produce. The same materials that were used to build the ruin are also available for use by visitors. There are tools, books, writing utensils, seating areas, computers and other material. Never Give Up the Spot appeals to a new understanding of the museum as an institution that opens up to the public and is free of hierarchies. It’s a place where there is nothing to buy! The sculpture Never Give Up The Spot draws attention to the importance—now and in the future—of taking a stand and sticking to it. It’s a place that welcomes all people!
An exhibition of the Museum Villa Stuck
Curator: Roland Wenninger
Publication
Thomas Hirschhorn created an artist’s book on the subject of “ruin,” which will be published in conjunction with the exhibition. It is titled “Destruction is difficult. Indeed it is as difficult as Creation.” (Antonio Gramsci) Thomas Hirschhorn Artist’s Book. You can find the book in one of the shelters in the exhibition. It is free and available only in the exhibition.
FRIDAY LATE, first Friday every month, 11am to 10pm
Press contact: Museum Villa Stuck, T + 49 89 45 55 51 12 / presse.villastuck [at] muenchen.de
With the generous support of swiss arts council prohelvetia, Verein zur Förderung der Stiftung Villa Stuck e.V., Richard Stury Stiftung
