DIS/PLAY/GROUND. Exhibitions on sites of creative practice: famed & osa (office for subversive architecture)

July 07, 2011 to July 20, 2011

An exhibition – the side-by side presentation of different artistic positions – has many components: besides the objects, their artistic creation, and the curatorial vision that contextualizes them, the architectural and institutional space in which they are presented also plays an integral role. dis/play/ground uses various means to explore the spatial parameters that shape exhibitions.
Sites of creative practice are places where the production, presentation and dissemination of contemporary art occurs under one roof, together with the evaluation of creative processes and the negotiation of the various themes addressed by the works. As a research project, DIS/PLAY/GROUND uses different methods to explore how these places use space, how they treat issues surrounding display, exhibition space and exhibition design. Attention will first turn to PLATFORM3’s own site: artists and architects have been asked to survey its architectural and institutional characteristics, and to create works based on their findings.

DIS/PLAY/GROUND is presenting works by:
Famed
www.famed.us
osa - office for subversive architecture (for osa in Munich:
Oliver Langbein and Anke Strittmatter)
www.osa-online.net

OPENING AND PRESENTATION: July 6, 2011, 7pm

DIS/PLAY/GROUND ongoing:
Following a further trajectory, dis/play/ground will expand its research field, moving from the PLATFORM3 site to include other, similarly structured sites throughout german speaking areas. What does the exchange/comparison between PLATFORM3 and other similar sites tell us about current ways of exhibiting contemporary art, and what tendencies can be observed? dis/play/ground is a work in progress. Check for updated findings and information, soon to be posted on www. platform3.de.

Conceived and curated by Birgit Pelzmann (PLATFORM3)