Exhibition
How old is humanity and how old is the planet that supports it? In relation to the age of stones, the human measurement of time is radically relativized. The exhibition is dedicated to the material that in many ways forms the basis of our existence. On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, the Kunsthaus Dresden is showing an exhibition of contemporary art on the subject of stones.
The exhibition responds to the anniversaries to be celebrated – 2021 is also the year of 160 years of German-Japanese friendship - in a provocative but also thoughtful way, posing artistic as well as ethical and spiritual questions in response to these occasions: What do we actually know about time? How do we need to change our lives, but also our cultural perspective, in order to save our planet and our existence?
The artistic works enable a view of stones from very different positions on this globe, which are seen here not only as a resource, brittle, uneventful and powerless, but also as carriers of geological and planetary knowledge. Den Steinen zuhören / Listening to the Stones also contains the hope of a symbolic new beginning through «listening” to stones as advisors and companions, which should make it possible to relearn and rethink perspectives on the past and future.
Artists
Yoav Admoni, Maria Thereza Alves und Jimmie Durham, Marie Athenstaedt, Alice Creischer & Andreas Siekmann, Lucile Desamory, Hatakeyama Naoya, Horikawa Michio, Hsu Chia-Wei, Koike Teruo, Alicja Kwade, Miyakita Hiromi, Munem Wasif, Sybille Neumeyer, Kadija de Paula & Chico Togni & FELL, Mathis Pfäffli, Erika Richter, Shitamichi Motoyuki, Suzuki Akio, Tang Han, Zhou Xiaopeng, Stephanie Zurstegge
Curated by Miya Yoshida in collaboration with Kerstin Flasche and Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz / Kunsthaus Dresden
Supporters
Supported by the Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, the Japan Foundation, the Homann Foundation and the ifa Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen