
BBM (Observers of Operators of Machines): EPKOT (Experimental Prototype Killers of Tomorrow), 2018, interactive installation, mixed media (robots, displays, sound), installation view Kunsthalle Mannheim 2018, courtesy BBM, © photo: Hardy Müller, Mannheim

Constructing the World: Art and Economy
Ten years after the peak of the global financial crisis in 2008, which profoundly shook the economic systems of America and Europe and had a lasting effect on present-day life, this topical exhibition is the first to illustrate the economy’s dramatic influence on art and to make global comparisons, demonstrating these in an analysis of two separate eras. Economic phenomena in the classical modernism of the 1920s and 30s are not only explored by focusing on art from the German Weimar Republic, the Soviet Union, and the United States, but also juxtaposed with artists of the present day.
Curatorial team: Dr. Eckhart Gillen (Berlin), Dr. Ulrike Lorenz, Dr. Sebastian Baden
Project Lead: Dr. Inge Herold, Assistence: Lisa Valentina Riedel, M. A. mult., Elisabeth Bohnet, M.A.
Part 2 of "Construction of the World. Art and Economy - 2008-2018" is extended until 03.03.2019.
The exhibition is supported by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (main sponsor), BASF SE (main sponsor), H.W. & J. Hector Stiftung, Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, Stiftung Kunsthalle Mannheim, VR Bank Rhein-Neckar eG, City of Mannheim, Innovationsfonds Kunst des Ministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg. Handelsblatt is media partner of the exhibition.
Maja Bajevic - BBM (Observers of Operators of Machines) - Bureau d'Études - Claire Fontaine - Jacques Coetzer - Abraham Cruzvillegas - Szilárd Cseke - Chto Delat - Jeremy Deller - Simon Denny - Tatjana Doll - Harun Farocki & Antje Ehmann - Thierry Geoffroy - Andreas Gursky - Thomas Hirschhorn - Olaf Holzapfel - Sanja Iveković - Charles Lim Yi Yong - Maha Maamoun - José Antonio Vega Macotela - Tobias Rehberger - Oliver Ressler & Dario Azzellini - Mika Rottenberg - Superflex - Zefrey Throwell - Volume V - Maya Zack - Artur Żmijewski
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Ulrike Lorenz, Eckhart J. Gillen (Ed.): Constructing the World. Art and Economy 1919-1939, paperback with flaps, 24 x 28 cm, 400 pages, German or English, with texts by Helen Adkins, Elmar Altvater, Makeda Best, Daniel Bulatov, Hiltrud Thomas Flierl, Eckhart Gillen, Larne Abse Gogarty, Hans Günther, Karoline Hille, Lynette Roth, Hans Dieter Schäfer, Ute Schmidt, Bernhard Schulz, Zelfira Tregulova/ Faina Balakhovskaya, Otto Karl Werckmeister; Price in bookstores: 58 Euro, in the museum shop: 39 Euro, ISBN 978-3-89165-233-6 (German and English edition) and English edition).
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Sebastian Baden, Ulrike Lorenz (Ed.): Constructing the World. Art and Economy 2008-2018 - German/English, paperback, 24 x 28 cm, 192 pages, German and English, with texts by Sebastian Baden, Paco Barragán, Alexander Bauer, Johan Hartle, Onur Nobrega, Berit Sandberg. Price in bookshops: 40 Euro, in museum shops: 29 Euro, ISBN 978-3-7356-0459-0.
Special price for both catalogues in the museum shop: 55 Euro.
All catalogs are available in the museum Shop (Tel. 0621 432 92670, shop.km@museumswelt.eu) or by Mail: katalogbestellung@kuma.art.
Édouard Manet: The Execution of Emperor Maximilian, 1868-69, oil on canvas, 252 x 302 cm, collection Kunsthalle Mannheim José Antonio Vega Macotela: The Chisel and the Sinkhole, 2016/17, wood, metal, hammers, chisels, 165 × 224 × 246 cm, collection Pérez

Olaf Holzapfel: 3 Häuser, 2018, douglas fir, paint, 485 x 750 x 333 cm, © Olaf Holzapfel, courtesy the artist, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden & Daniel Marzona, Berlin, photo: Kunsthalle Mannheim/ Rainer Diehl

Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel: Is Art the Last Bastion for Uprise, Venice 2017, tent, acrylic spray paint, 200 x 140 cm, © Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018

Simon Denny: Crypto Futures Game of Life Board Overprint Collage: 1960, 2018, Collage: digital print on Milton Bradley Game of Life 1960 Edition board, powder-coated server rack shelving, laser cut Plexiglas, various server rack hardware components, © Si

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