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For Children. Art Stories since 1968
What motivates artists worldwide to create artworks for children? What does it mean to be a child today? Is childhood a closed chapter or a state of being? Haus der Kunst explores these questions with the group exhibition 鈥淔or Children. Art Stories since 1968鈥�. It brings together works by over twenty international artists that have been created specifically for a young audience since the late 1960s. Visitors of all ages are invited to enter into a dialogue with contemporary art and with each other, to rethink today鈥檚 understanding of childhood.
The group exhibition unfolds across multiple areas of Haus der Kunst, extending all the way to the terrace facing the Eisbach. There, a sculpture by KOO JEONG A invites visitors to skate, while Ei Arakawa-Nash calls on everyone to draw the floor of the Mittelhalle. In the Archiv Galerie, the happening-like actions of the KEKS group are presented 鈥� a collective that formed in 1968 in the context of the Munich Art Academy. The exhibition explores universal themes such as huma颅nity, society, politics, economy, environment, technology, and the future 鈥� topics we first encounter as children and that accompany us throughout our lives.
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What motivates artists worldwide to create artworks for children? What does it mean to be a child today? Is childhood a closed chapter or a state of being? Haus der Kunst explores these questions with the group exhibition 鈥淔or Children. Art Stories since 1968鈥�. It brings together works by over twenty international artists that have been created specifically for a young audience since the late 1960s. Visitors of all ages are invited to enter into a dialogue with contemporary art and with each other, to rethink today鈥檚 understanding of childhood.
The group exhibition unfolds across multiple areas of Haus der Kunst, extending all the way to the terrace facing the Eisbach. There, a sculpture by KOO JEONG A invites visitors to skate, while Ei Arakawa-Nash calls on everyone to draw the floor of the Mittelhalle. In the Archiv Galerie, the happening-like actions of the KEKS group are presented 鈥� a collective that formed in 1968 in the context of the Munich Art Academy. The exhibition explores universal themes such as huma颅nity, society, politics, economy, environment, technology, and the future 鈥� topics we first encounter as children and that accompany us throughout our lives.
Artists on show
- Afrah Shafiq
- Agus Nur Amal PMTOH
- Ana Mendieta
- Antoine Catala
- Basim Magdy
- Bruce Nauman
- DIS Art Collective
- Ei Arakawa-Nash
- Emily Floyd
- Ernesto Neto
- Eva Ko钮átková
- Harun Farocki
- Jan Peter Hammer
- KEKS
- Koo Jeong A
- Lygia Pape
- Meredith Monk
- Neha Choksi
- Olafur Eliasson
- Rachel Rose
- Rivane Neuenschwander
- Tarek Atoui
- Tromarama
- Yto Barrada
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