Exhibition program 2019

Kunst Meran Merano Arte is a platform for contemporary art and architecture in South Tyrol (Italy). Since 2001 the institution is based in the centre of Merano, where it presents exhibitions on positions in both international and regional contemporary art in a carefully renovated historic building.

Da lontano era un’isola
Katinka Bock, Giulia Cenci, Philipp Messner
March 16–June 16, 2019
Curated by Christiane Rekade

For the beginning of the season Kunst Meran Merano Arte is presenting three solo shows, one on each floor of the museum, under the title Da lontano era un’isola (From afar it was an island). The title is from a book by Bruno Munari in which the Italian artist and designer describes hidden worlds that can through closer observation be discovered in the structures of stones. Investigation of their own working materials, experimentation with these and a requirement that the public should repeatedly question its own perception can all be seen as common themes of the three artists represented. In their approach to the particularieties and structures of the exhibition spaces, Katinka Bock (*1976 in Frankfurt am Main, lives in Paris), Giulia Cenci (*1988 Cortona, lives in Amsterdam) and Philipp Messner (*1975 in Bolzano, lives in Munich) permit a new island to be discovered on each floor.

Alterazioni Video. Incompiuto: la nascita di uno stile
June 29–September 29, 2019
Curated by Christiane Rekade

For over ten years now the artistic collective Alterazioni Video has been researching the phenomenon of unfinished public buildings in Italy, documenting and mapping over 750 constructions scattered throughout the country, works that have never been completed and have therefore had no function, becoming monuments to something that never existed. These unfinished works are the ruins of the contemporary era, the perfect interpretive paradigm to understand Italy’s recent history. This study has led to the definition of a new style: Incompiuto (Unfinished).

Özlem Altin
June 29–September 29, 2019
Curated by Christiane Rekade

Özlem Altin (born 1977 in Goch, Germany, lives in Berlin) reprocesses material from her own vast collection of texts and images, gathered from disparate sources that she reinterprets by means of drawing and photography. In her exhibitions she creates a sort of collage with a close relationship to the space, defining new sequences of images and new narratives. She does not follow a linear or chronological order, however, but bases her work more upon intuitive associations and relationships that repeat themselves and progressively develop.

The artist will be spending some time in Merano where she will have the opportunity to seek out and collect new materials that will then appear in her solo show at Kunst Meran Merano Arte.

Design from the Alps
October 11, 2019–January 12, 2020
Curated by Claudio Larcher, Massimo Martignoni, Ursula Schnitzer
In collaboration with NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan) and the Free University of Bozen - Bolzano, Faculty of Design and Art

The first comprehensive review of the production and culture of modern design in a dynamic cross-border European region. Design from the Alps is the story of the fascinating adventure of design in this Alpine area, a natural bridge that connects northern and southern Europe and therefore possesses a surprising ability to absorb the most advanced instances of modern design.

Scientific support is provided by Professors Claudio Larcher, Massimo Martignoni and Antonino Benincasa, with the involvement of the creative potential of international young design students. Kunst Meran Merano Arte is co-ordinating the project.

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