Commissioner: Museion
Curators: BAU in collaboration with Museion
Exhibition design: insalata mista
Font: Due Studio
Exhibition on the artworks acquired from 2012 till 2018 by the Department for German Culture of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano ∕ Bozen
Opening: 26.06.2020
unlearning categories is the first exhibition on the artworks acquired by the Provincial Authorities (between 2012 and 2018). For the occasion, over sixty works will leave their normal habitat – the offices where they are usually displayed in a familiar context of people, plants, stones and holiday postcards – and migrate to Museion for 59 days. Inspired by contemporary thinkers, like Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing, the exhibition invites the visitor to abandon pre-existing categories and attitudes and rediscover the complexity of our place in the world through a symbiosis of human and non-human.
The curatorial narrative penetrates the earth to reach the hidden micorrhiza system, where plants and mushrooms live together in symbiosis, and uses it as a metaphor for the artworks. Accompanied by concepts of hybridism, materiality, collectivity, lines, porosity, assembly, sediments and splices, these themes weave the artworks, the different generations of artists and the visitors themselves into a unified exhibition experience.
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unlearning categories
Ausstellung zu den Kunstankäufen 2012–2018 der Autonomen Provinz Bozen-Südtirol, Abteilung Deutsche Kultur / Mostra degli acquisti 2012–2018 di opere d’arte della Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano-Alto Adige, Ripartizione Cultura tedesca / Exhibition of artworks acquired from 2012 till 2018 by the Department for German Culture of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano ∕ Bozen
Kuratiert von / a cura di / curated by: BAU
Exhibition views, Museion Bozen/Bolzano, 26/06 – 23/08/2020
© Museion. Photo: Lineematiche – L. Guadagnini / T. Sorvillo