[curatorial.net] FW: nothing to declare

[Paula Orrell]

Nothing to declare ­ Nichts zu deklarieren
4th. Triennale of Contemporary Art, Oberschwaben.
4th April to the 22nd of June 2008
Friedrichshafen (DE), Kreuzlingen (CH) and Bregenz (AU)
 
Participating artists: Lida Abdul, Carla Ahlander, Thom Barth, Otto Berchem,
Karolin Bräg, Nathan Coley, Com&Com, Raphaël Cuomo & Maria Iorio, Martin
Dammann, Beth Derbyshire, Hansruedi Fricker, Rainer Ganahl, Per Hüttner,
Andrea Iten, Ruediger John, San Keller, Christian Konzett, Martin Krenn,
Anne Lorenz, Kurt Matt, Yves Mettler, Chantal Michel, Alexander Odermatt,
Walid Raad /The Atlas Group, Oliver Ressler , Frank & Patrik Riklin,
Christof Salzmann, Eran Schaerf, Christian Schwager, Ulrike Shepherd, Roman
Signer, Steffenschöni, Ernst Thoma, Sofie Thorsen, Miriam Thyes, Richard
Tisserand, Kerstin Wagener, Zoë Walker & Neil Bromwich, Georg Winter, YKON
(Sasha Huber, Tellervo Kalleinen, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Petri Saarikko
und Tomas Träskman)
 
With their concept for the exhibition Nothing to declare, curators Barnaby
Drabble, Dorothee Messmer and Sibylle Omlin respond to the specific
qualities of the town of Friedrichshafen, and more broadly the Lake
Constance region. Their selection of over forty regional, national and
international artists for the triennale, with around a quarter making new
works, makes up an exhibition that explores the themes of identity, borders
and migration that condition life in the region and arise from the
geographical and historical context it provides.
 
Centred on Friedrichshafen, with presentations at the Zeppelin Museum and
the Kunstverein, and works distributed in the town¹s public space, the
exhibition extends over the lake to Austria and Switzerland with further
parts of the exhibition to be found at the Künstlerhaus Thurn and Taxis in
Bregenz und the Kunstraum in Kreuzlingen.
 
The focus on the activities of border-crossing, migration and reinvention,
and the issues of identity formation, and of seeking new perspectives on the
familiar, stem from the emotional history of the town of Friedrichshafen
itself, as a border point with an active customs office, as the home of the
Zeppelin airship and as the site of devastating bombing at the end of WW2.
It is not the least of the roles of borders, to seek to define difference,
and with this identity. But, to which region, which country or which city
can we say we really belong? How is a city, town or region¹s identity
constructed?  How are the boundaries to other regions, or other cultures,
established?
 
The commissioned projects for the exhibition have seen local and
international artists visiting the region and researching these and related
questions. The works they present aim to offer triennale visitors, whether
locals or guests, new and exciting artistic insights with reference to the
place where they find themselves. Having nothing to declare can, after all,
also be understood as having nothing to hide.

The exhibition is accompanied by a discussion and screenings program with
artists of the Triennale in the Mediahaus k42, Friedrichshafen on 24th of
May from 13.30 - 18.30. On the same day, the event will be preceded by a
special guided tour of the exhibition with the curators, from 10.30 - 12.00
(meeting point ­ foyer of the Zeppelin Museum).

Openings:
3. April 2008, 8pm Friedrichshafen
Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen,
Seestr. 22, 88045 Friedrichshafen, Germany
www.zeppelin-museum.de <http://www.zeppelin-museum.de>
 
4. April 2008, 7pm Bregenz
Palais Thurn & Taxis,
Gallusstrasse 10, 6900 Bregenz, Austria
www.kuenstlerhaus-bregenz.at <http://www.kuenstlerhaus-bregenz.at>
 
5. April 2008, 5pm Kreuzlingen
kunstraum kreuzlingen, 5
Bodanstrasse, 78280 Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
www.kunstraum-kreuzlingen.ch <http://www.kunstraum-kreuzlingen.ch>



Barnaby Drabble
Hardstr. 327
CH-8005
Zürich 
Switzerland

tel: 0041(0)79 776 7069
e: bdrabble at mac.com



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