Das neugierige Museum

Das neugierige Museum
Copyright: Martin Osterider

THE INQUISITIVE MUSEUM
all year 08 and 09
10 am – 6 pm daily, Thu 10 am – 9 pm
Idea / Concept: Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz

Curiosity drives the Lentos Kunstmuseum to get in touch with the world. Creative personalities and artists are cordially invited to come up with new impulses and to engage in brainstorming on the future of the institution ‘museum’.
The museum is a time-hallowed institution. In the course of its very long history its characteristic components, such as the roles played by visitors and staff, its methods of (re)presentation, exhibition techniques, etc. have all tended to become somewhat stereotypical. From time to time it is therefore highly commendable to give fresh eyes from outside the chance to examine the status quo – in order to make changes and surprises possible.
In our case it is the Lentos that feels inquisitive and that casts around in search of new projects and sustainable reforms. Its point of departure will be the exchange with visitors on the one hand and a number of different interest groups on the other. This exchange will be underpinned by the conviction that both questioning its purpose and its functions and finding and realizing new definitions are all part of a museum’s raison d’être. THE INQUISITIVE MUSEUM wants to be taught a lesson or two by its artists and users. The project kicks off with an invitation to artists and groups of artists and creative individuals from Linz, from other parts of Austria and from European countries to focus on the Lentos and feed it with new impulses.

Communicative Building Blocks

To get the museum’s tour d’horizon started Uli Aigner will organize five dinner engagements for director Stella Rollig plus one guest. This will provide an occasion for an exchange of experiences and for any number of questions and answers. Then the ‘Freundinnen der Kunst’ will despatch Lentos emissaries to different parts of Linz in the double function of messengers and reconnaissance unit. Moreover, MAIZ and Carmen Mörsch will enrich the museum’s art communication programme by adding new aspects to it with the help of a working group of migrants, and Jeanne van Heeswijk has chosen the Verein der Freunde des Lentos as partner for her project.

WHERE //
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz and other venues in Linz
Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1, 4020 Linz
www.lentos.at

PARTICIPANTS //
Uli Aigner, AS -IF Architekten, Bik van der Pol, Empfangshalle, Freundinnen der Kunst, MAIZ with Carmen Mörsch, Antje Schiffers and Thomas Sprenger, Jeanne van Heeswijk

In cooperation with Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz