PLATFORM3 - Räume für zeitgenössische Kunst - 2009

Doing boundless
Maja Block
Belief Unlimited
Mirela Ljevakovic
The observation of space and spatial relationships
are approached through the individual
projects that make up Doing boundless. An
open work environment is created that simultaneously
focuses on controversy and inspiration
in a creative field. In this manner set
and established disciplines are dismantled
and reassembled into an unconventional new
order.
Specific phenomena of today’s media
landscape are actively and reactively chosen
and processed in an alternative context. The
curatorial approach to the exhibit is in part
motivated by the available space itself. When
taking a look at commonly used forms of exhibition,
the following becomes apparent: a
gallery is subordinated to a program, a museum
to the bias of a genre. Doing boundless liberates
itself of these strictures and yet is still
bound to them. The lines converge together
in space; it is all about the expression of various
media and their spatial impact. Genre
boundaries are purposely disregarded. Doing
boundless combines dance-media, fashion,
graphic and web design as well as sound
and video installations, thus trying to convey
modern creative work.
Art serves design in the conception of
shapes, and design is conducive to creative
work, especially to the materiality of art.
Fashion is displayed as art and art as fashion.
If a new diversity of shapes is initiating the
transition into a modern age, then we indeed
find ourselves in the midst of a paradigmatic
change that is transforming the identity of
the art and design community. Times of change
are not only bridges for an innovative expression
of form, but also to a new understanding of
established perceptions.
Participating Artists: Ayzit Bostan, Mirko Hecktor, Simon
Herkner & Felix Müthe, Hort, ILEK, Daniel Kluge & Katarina Agathos,
The Smalpaze, VVORK | Curator: Maja Block
29.05–07.07.2009 Platform3, Munich
22.09–07.10.2009 Theatiner Church, Munich
Nineteen contemporary artists of different
nationalities and faiths presented their works
on the theme of faith and religion, made
potent statement on the diverse religious
sensitivities, questioned banal practices and
dealt critically with different notions of faith
and aspects of Christianity, Islam, Judaism
and Buddhism.
The exhibition intended to open up various
possibilities of intercultural dialogue and to
encourage reflection on one’s own ideas and
knowledge of, or prejudices on faith and religion.
Through the individual use of various
artistic media, a many-faceted approach of
enquiring into contemporary aspects of faith
and religion was developed, with the intention
of contribution to new forms of discourse in
the arts.
The great success of Belief Unlimited at
Platform3 and the persistent interest even
after the exhibition was closed, motivated
organizers of “Ander Art Festival” from the
Department of Arts and Culture of the City of
Munich, to present one part of the exhibition
with a new collection of works from fifteen
artists, on the occasion of this Intercultural
event at the Theatiner Church.
Participating Artists: Azra Aksamija (BIH, A, USA), Ani Asvazadurian
(A, ARM), Jovana Banjac (CRO, GER), Nana Dix (GER), Rabi
Georges (SYR, GER), Stefan Hunstein (GER), Ervil Jovkovic
(GER, CRO), Isi Kunath (GER, NED), Uwe Möller (GER),
Sead Mujic (BIH, GER), Tom Schmelzer (GER), Harald Siemsen
(GER), Gisbert Stach (GER), Rose Stach (GER), Mitra Wakil
(AFG, GER), Christian Weiß (GER), Carolin Wenzel (GER),
Stefan Wischnewski (GER), Maria Zervou (GRE, NED) | Curator:
Mirela Ljevakovic
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