Munich invites you to a walk in the art: "A Space Called Public-Hopefully public"

Summer, sun, vacation - time to relax and take up new impressions to rethink the usual perspectives and, if necessary, correct. Since the everyday life of humans makes a break from a reflection called vacation or vacation advisable, people have traveled to foreign places and unknown countries for this purpose .

However, there were and are always forced and forced people who spend this recovery time at their home town voluntarily or through (financial) circumstances, and who are looking for relaxation and experiences at this home town.

Today cities and municipalities do a lot to offer their citizens, such as: B. the city of Munich , which invites you to an exciting art walk through the city this summer, with works of art by 17 different artists who can be viewed in the entire inner city area .

It started at the end of January 2013 with a lonely base that suddenly appears freshly concreted in front of the venerable equestrian statue of Elector Maximilian I on Wittelsbacherplatz .

The architecture fits well with the elector's base, but the second base is empty, and at temperatures it just looks a little over the freezing point under a very uncomfortable rain.

This base makes sense, and it can even rely on tradition: the base is the first harbinger of an art project called "A Space Called Public - Hopefully public" , an "artistic summer entertainment" in which international artists will briefly redesign this public space.

This base also has a very famous role model: it was created as a precise replica of the "Fourth Plinth" , the empty fourth base on the London Trafalgar Square, the largest public square in the city, which is quite in the middle of London and is for most London "The Center of London".

On the Trafalgar Square you already met in the Middle Ages, and the model for the Munich socket has been there since 1841. Even then there was financial hardship in public construction planning - a equestrian statue of the King William IV just deceased should actually be installed on this base, but the money went out and the base remained empty.

Since William IV had ruled only for a few years before he died of consumption (he had inherited the throne from his brother at the age of 65) and was also very quickly replaced by his glamorous successor Victoria as a little royal ruler in public consciousness, the base remained empty.

He remained empty for a very long time, you simply couldn't agree which monarch or military hero should get his memorial place there.

Royal Society of Arts only one and a half centuries later (1999) : it launched the "Fourth Plinth Project" , in which contemporary artists used the base to exhibit their works, "Ecce Homo" by Mark Wallinger , "Regardless of History" by Bill Woodrow and the "Untitled Monument" by Rachel Whiteread were until 2001 to admire.

After that, the dispute over the use continued, the base was occasionally misused for advertising work until the people were asked, which spoke out for more contemporary art.

In September 2005, Marc Quinn started with "Alison Lapper Pregnant", since then there was a colorful glass sculpture from Thomas Schütte ("Model for a Hotel", 2007), Antony Gormley made the visitors to the square in his live art project "One & Other" 2009 himself for art, Yinka Shonibar from 2010 to 2012 with "Nelson's Ship in A was replaced “ Powerless Structures Fig. 101 ”by the artists Elmgreen and Dragset

The rocking horse on the base in London makes the "Blue Cockerel" (Blauer Hahn) of Katharina Fritsch Platz on July 25, 2013, but the Norwegian artist duo Elmgreen and Dragset establishes the connection to the Munich socket, as the two are responsible in summer 2013, as are for around 20 other works of art of different international artists, which they are as curators of the Munich art project brought to the city.

Until September, the artists go across the fountain and fountain and in parks and squares to the question of the question of the question of the question of the importance of city spaces in times of social networks.

Our base was allowed to start, from March the artists Li Len and Stephen Hall the "4th Plinth Munich" and will place changing works of art on it.

Over the summer, works of art by Iván Argote & Pauline Bastard, Han Chong, the curators Elmgreen & Dragset himself, Funda, Helin Alas & Robert Keil, Martin Kippenberger, Ragnar Kjartansson, Alexander Laner, Namill, Henrik Olesen, Kirsten Pieroth, Ed Ruscha, David Shrigley, Sissel Tolaas,, Tatiana Trouvé and Peter Weibel.

You can find art at your Munich city walk in the Rathausgalerie Kunsthalle on Marienplatz, on the Viktualienmarkt (on the north side of the Schrannenhalle), on the Odeonsplatz, between Jutier- und Tonnenhalle (Dachauer Strasse), on Wittelsbacherplatz (our podium!), The Marienhof, the Gärtnerplatz, in the Hotel Deutsche Eiche in Reichenbachstrasse, on the Isartorplatz and on Lenbachplatz and on the promenadenplatz, in the Passage Sparkassenstraße/Falkenturmstraße, in front of St. Stephan and in front of the Schäfflerhof Maffeistrasse.

To put it a little shorter: You will almost surely come across a work of art somewhere if you walk through the city center of Munich. In addition, there are bust tours from the town hall gallery by the end of June, and campaign days in the Weinstraße, in the outdoor districts and the Isar meadows.

Nothing will be revealed about the works of art itself, except that our base will become an exclusive small property (with roof terrace and small garden) from the end of May, which may be inhabited.

If you want to plan your walk beforehand, or want to know exactly which works of art you expect, you can find precise information on artists and works of art, all times and all addresses www.aspacecalledpublic.de

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