31 May 2008 - 24 August 2008
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HETEROTOPIA. WORKS BY WILLEM VAN GENK AND OTHERS
The imaginative power of the works on show tackles the major challenge facing architecture - to create a built "shell" for the world that is in harmony with the subjective desires of its inhabitants.
The exhibition’s title 'Heterotopia' is taken from Michel Foucault’s famous lecture and essay on “Other Spaces”, written in 1967. In it, the French philosopher outlines an analysis of space. For him, space is neither an abstract continuum nor the neutral coexistence of units, but a spatial situation that is characterized by a complex 'assembly of relations'. 'Heterotopias' are thus social places that exist in parallel and possess a changed relational and structural fabric, enclaves in a world, examples being prisons or sanatoriums.
The exhibition will present works that can be classified as 'Outsider Art': The creators of the art exist beyond the pale of the established art world, and were exposed to extreme emotional strain or unusual experiences, were systematically excluded or ostracised by society.
READY FOR TAKE-OFF. CONTEMPORARY GERMAN EXPORT ARCHITECTURE
7 June 2008 - 9 November 2008
The 'Ready for Take-Off' exhibition, which presents the 2007 German contribution to the VII Architecture Biennial in São Paulo, attests to the brisk demand for German architectural services: A total of 16 architectural offices and their respective engineering partners present a current export project realised outside Germany.
SIMON UNGERS. HEAVY METAL
18 June 2008 - 31 August 2008
Massiveness and lightness were combined in an unprecedented manner by Simon Ungers (1958-2005) in his ideal architectures. The DAM shows his work of the last two years, much of it as yet not exhibited.