Karin Sander
Hausgäste (House Guests)
March 2–August 14, 2015
Kunstmuseum Ravensburg
Burgstraße 9
88212 Ravensburg
Germany
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 11am–6pm,
Thursday 11am–7pm
T +49 751 82810
Museum Humpis-Quartier
Marktstraße 45
88212 Ravensburg
Germany
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 11am–6pm,
Thursday 11am–8pm
T +49 751 82820
Museum Ravensburger
Marktstraße 26
88212 Ravensburg
Germany
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday, March 11am–6pm, April 10am–6pm
T +49 751 861377
Wirtschaftsmuseum Ravensburg
Marktstraße 22
88212 Ravensburg
Germany
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 11am–6pm,
Thursday 11am–8pm
T +49 751 35505777
www.wirtschaftsmuseum-ravensburg.de
Hausgäste (House Guests) is the title of a project that the internationally renowned artist Karin Sander has realised for an exhibition in Ravensburg’s four city centre museums from March to August of this year. The Kunstmuseum Ravensburg represents contemporary art, the Museum Humpis-Quartier local history, the Museum Ravensburger games and rules, and the Wirtschaftsmuseum Ravensburg markets and exchange.
Following the exhibition concept developed by Karin Sander, the four museums have exchanged exhibits from their collections, incorporating the loans into their own collections. Thus between March 2 and August 14, each of the four museums will take charge of an original work from the collection of each of the other museums and integrate it into its own current exhibition or collection display.
The exhibit is assigned a new location, leaving behind an empty space in the museum it was taken from. The empty space announces that the exhibit is missing because, in accordance with the exchange program, it is on loan to a neighbouring museum for the duration. Because each exhibit has been taken out of another context and collection, and thus initially has no connection to the exhibits surrounding it, it preserves its singularity and seems out of place. Misplaced and yet integrated, each piece appears alien, startling in its new context. The exhibits are transformed into museum visitorsin their unfamiliar locations—and thus part of an exhibition that thematically connects all four museums.
From 5 to 7pm on August 14, during the Long Night in the Museum Quarter, Karin Sander’s exhibition project will be given a further public-private dimension by the inhabitants of Ravensburg, who will bring personal objects from their homes and arrange them on a playing area set up in front of the Lederhaus, prior to exchanging them with their fellow citizens. Thus the objects will be permanently passed on, in a spirit of play, to new owners and placed in their private collections.
The exhibition is the result of a cooperation between the artist Karin Sander and the four Ravensburg museums, together with the City of Ravensburg: the Kunstmuseum Ravensburg (art museum), the Museum Humpis-Quartier, (museum of cultural history), the Museum Ravensburger (games, books, puzzles…) and the Wirtschaftsmuseum (museum of commerce). It is financially supported by the Kreissparkasse Ravensburg savings bank.
For press information, please contact Dr. Nicole Fritz (Director of the Kunstmuseum Ravensburg):
nicole.fritz@ravensburg.de
