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XVII Rohkunstbau July 9th to September 12th 2010
Schloss Marquardt (Potsdam-Marquardt)
Opening July 4th, 4 pm
For centuries, the myth of the fabled lost island of Atlantis has
inspired the imaginations of writers, artists and thinkers. The two Rohkunstbau exhibitions in 2009 and 2010 take the ideas of civil
society and nationhood developed around this legendary island state as
their leitmotif.
This year, ten international artists have been invited to create site-specific works exploring the
theme of Atlantis. The island of Atlantis became the object of a
philosophical dispute after it was first mythologized as an ideal state
over 2400 years ago in Plato's dialogues. Down the centuries, it has
repeatedly been re-interpreted, both philosophically and politically,
as the bearer of the most diverse notions of dispersal and
re-formation, and a benchmark for what has been lost or re-discovered.
The search for hidden histories and new identities undertaken by these
ten artists, each working from their own biographical and personal
perspective, will be taking the concept of the mythical Atlantis as a
point of reference.
In a way reminiscent of Groß Leuthen, home
to the very first Rohkunstbau exhibitions, the elaborately rebuilt
manor house of Schloss Marquardt, picturesquely located on the shores
of the Schlänitzsee lake, provides the exhibition with an eminently
suitable venue that is both off the beaten track and ideal for showing
site-specific contemporary art in a rural setting. Decay and revival,
destruction and rebirth - all those contraries come together here in
this Prussian Arcadia and flow into the artists' works.
Over the
years, Rohkunstbau has established itself as an exhibition renowned for
its focus on site-specific, contemporary art - and this year is
celebrating its 17th anniversary.
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