Visiting Skulptur Projekte Münster with a Tandem Mobility Grant

Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017 is an exhibition of sculptures in public places, held every ten years since 1977, the exhibition shows artworks for free in different places all over town, thereby confronting art with public places. As explained on the website of Skulptur Project: “the history is closely linked with the idea of creating a public not just with but also for art. This runs contrary to many projects presented in the public realm since the late 1990s, in which the main focus has frequently been on matters related to the city’s social and economic development. Fully conscious of the difficulties of defining “public” in connection with the term “art in the public realm”, for the 2017 Skulptur Projekte we are as convinced as ever that art in the urban realm is capable of activating historical, architectural, social, political and aesthetic contexts.”