CALL FOR PARTICIPATION!
The format Zwischenspiel – Guests at Kunstmuseum Bonn is going in round five!
In the period from 18 February to 6 April 2025, we would like to invite you and your projects to the Kunstmuseum Bonn. Apply with a project for the short-term realisation of a selected exhibition space at the Kunstmuseum Bonn. Show us what you do, what you think and what you want – for yourself, for the city, for society and for the future! Literature, fashion, music, performance, theatre, social projects, etc. You can realise almost anything in the rooms of the museum. Only the pure presentation of art in the conventional museum format cannot be considered – we are looking for new ideas and new formats! The project can be cross-disciplinary; each time slot is scheduled for 1 week, but does not have to be used in its entirety.
We look forward to receiving your applications!
APPLICATION INFORMATION
Both individuals and project groups and institutions can apply. There is no age limit and an artistic degree is not required.
Please note the following requirements before submitting your application:
– You are resident in Bonn, the Rhein-Sieg district, the Ahrweiler district or the Neuwied district
– The project can be realised at short notice (see exhibition period)
– Transport, assembly and dismantling must be organised by the participants themselves
– Participants must also take out insurance for the transport, the objects used for the presentation and the people involved in the project
– The art museum does not provide any personnel support or technical equipment or material or utensils (such as tables, chairs, etc.).
Technical requirements:
– Food, animals, plants or perishable materials and objects that can be infested by pests are not permitted for conservation reasons. This includes food, liquids and animal and plant products (such as leather, fur, old textiles and/or old furniture with textiles made of wool, horsehair, silk, feathers, untreated seeds, hay/straw etc., as well as untreated wood such as branches from nature and old worm-eaten wood).
– Colours or objects containing solvents cannot be used.
– Only the light sources on site or standard lighting may be used.
– The use of high voltage current is not possible.
– All original (!) electronic devices brought along must be in perfect working order and CE-labelled – for safety reasons, they will be inspected by our staff on site before being put into operation.
– Fog machines or other devices for generating fog are not permitted.
– All cabling, cable ducts and extensions must be brought along.
– All cabling on the floor must be properly laid and protected and must not pose a risk to the audience.
– It is not possible to light open fires, nor may any materials with fire-accelerating properties such as polystyrene or similar be used – please observe the B1 fire standard.
– Architectural installations must be structurally stable and must not pose a risk to project participants or the public.
– Ceilings cannot be suspended.
– Walls must not be painted.
– Screw fittings in the floor are not permitted.
– Escape routes must be observed.
The application documents must contain the following information:
1. title of the proposed project (please choose a short title!)
2. short text on the project: answering the questions ‘Who? What? How? Where?’ (max. 500 characters)
3. detailed project outline (2,000-4,000 characters, including illustrations/sketches)
What can be seen in the room?
What material/exhibits/scenery will you bring with you?
If necessary, submit photos for precise clarification
7. planned duration of the project (min. one Wednesday evening, max. 1 week)
8. planned set-up and dismantling period (number of hours/days)
9. please name accompanying dates and formulate ideas for promoting the project
10. number of project participants
11. tabular CV (individuals) or short profile description (groups)
12. contact details incl. telephone number and e-mail address
Upload:
Please upload your application documents as a PDF (max. 3 MB) via the following upload link:
https://databox.bonn.de/public/upload-shares/R2eQOBvJElozrhdoJcMESqQdPFoS0W33
Please note: An upload confirmation will not be sent. Only online applications will be considered.
The application deadline is 31 October 2024, midnight.
Jury:
Following the application deadline, a jury will decide on participation. Acceptances and
rejections will be sent out within one month. A detailed discussion with the responsible team at the museum will examine the possibilities of realising the projects and, if necessary, bring about changes. Please note urgently: Appointments are binding!
Compensation:
Für jedes angenommene Projekt wird zur Realisierung eine Vergütung in Höhe von bis zu 2.000 Euro brutto für eine mehrtägige Laufzeit und 1.000 Euro brutto für eintägige Events durch die IVG-Stiftung bereitgestellt. Der Rechtsweg ist ausgeschlossen.
Space:
The interlude will take place in the temporary exhibition area on the ground floor of the museum: Room IV (8.4 x 14.9 metres).
Advertising:
Please advertise your project independently. Please send printed matter and digital announcements about your project to our public relations colleagues in advance for coordination and approval. We will provide you with the logo of our funding partner and the ‘Zwischenspiel’ logo for your printed matter and announcements via download. Both logos must always be taken into account.
Contact person:
Lucy Degens
T +49 (0)2 28-77 6228
The project is supported by the IVG Stiftung, which is administered by the Bürgerstiftung Bonn.
Our collection presentation is permanently in motion. In 2024, the Kunstmuseum Bonn will receive a new lighting system that is more energy-efficient in terms of sustainability and can be easily adapted to conservation conditions. In the course of the renovation, blocks of rooms will be successively closed and then reopened with new room-filling installations. Ulla von Brandenburg’s installation ‘Two Times Seven’ marks the start of a series of highlight rooms that will be opened in the coming months.
‘Two Times Seven’ (2017) consists of seven rows of sculpturally designed, ceiling-high curtains that can be walked through to reach a video installation. The work invites visitors to experience and reflect on both physical and mental spaces.
Ulla von Brandenburg is best known for her installations, videos and performances. Her works are often characterised by a strong theatrical aesthetic. Characteristic of her videos is the use of elaborate stage sets and costumes as well as a strong emphasis on colour and movement.
The work is on permanent loan from the KiCo collection.
From June 2024, Videonale and Kunstmuseum Bonn will take a reciprocal dive into the archives and video art collections. These will each house an extensive collection of both early and contemporary video art, which will be on display in the small auditorium of the Kunstmuseum until the opening of VIDEONALE.20.
Until November 3 Confessions with an Open Curtain (2011) by Eli Cortiñas will be on view.
Take television. What happens? A string of electrons, sound and picture impulses are transmitted through wires into the air. The TV camera is the disintegrator.
Your set unscrambles or integrates the electrons back into pictures and sound.
– Yes, but this is different.
This short dialog sequence from a 1950s science fiction film (“The Fly” by Kurz Neumann) is repeated again and again in Juha van Ingen’s short video clip until the image and sound finally dissolve into noise. What happens here? Van Ingen interprets the film quote, which describes the creation of image and sound on the television screen, backwards, so to speak: while the television set reassembles the individual scattered signals and electrons it receives into a coherent image with sound, van Ingen copies these images from one video cassette to another until they again dissolve into individual signals and electrons that are too vague for the device to decode in any meaningful way. This work was shown as part of the VIDEONALE.5 (1991) at the Bonner Kunstverein, at a time when the presentation of VHS tapes was still standard practice.
With his image experiment, van Ingen is representative of an early generation of video artists who artistically explored the nature of the video image in comparison to other forms of image production and perception. The comparison with the production of film images is certainly obvious, but comparisons with the creation of images in painting or photography are also quite virulent. What does an image consist of and how much information do we need to recognize it? In view of today’s possibilities of digital image production, this question arises again in a completely different way.
Every two years since 2005, the Videonale − Festival for Video and Time-based Arts has presented an exhibition of international video art, accompanied by a diverse festival program, at the Kunstmuseum Bonn. From April 11 to May 18, 2025, the 20th Videonale will take place in the museum and at various locations in the city of Bonn; the festival is thus celebrating its 40th anniversary.
Over 300 video works from 40 years of festival events are permanently accessible in the Videonale online video archive: archive.videonale.org
All information about VIDEONALE.20 can be found at videonale.org
Refugees who can prove their status as a refugee by means of a document issued by the immigration authorities will be admitted free of charge.
Every Sunday from 11:15 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. our Atelier am Sonntag takes place – for guests of all ages, with support and assistance needs, with and without art experience. Refugees are welcome to participate in these workshops free of charge. The number of participants is limited, participation tickets can be picked up at the museum counter before the events starts. All dates of the Atelier am Sonntag can be found in our calendar.