Will I never be able to leave (Vilnius International Airport), 2004. Colour photography. 10x15 cm, postcard for the exhibition Heimweg.
TEXT FROM culturalaffairs:
Heimweg/The Way Home.
People all over the world have been reflecting on the way home for thousands of years. On the one side, this refers literally to the daily routine of “going home”. On the other side, “the way home” also has a very philosophical and spiritual meaning for us. We want to make the diversity of the way home subject of discussion and perceptible. We invited 200 artists from all over the world, whom we hold in high esteem for their former work and with whom we have cooperated on previous projects. The artists are to share their ideas regarding “the way home” with us. The artists are basically visual artists, writers and architects, of whom some are well-known to the public and some are young less known artists.
The artists contributed either a postcard in a usual format or a text. The idea is that greetings, dreams, thoughts, questions and/or feelings, which arise from or about the way home, are conveyed and then sent as a postcard. The postcard can be either bought or designed individually and can be designed freely on one side or on both. The text too, can be individual or an excerpt. The artist decides which of the sides is to be exhibited, although both sides can be illustrated. Altogether we received 203 totally different postcards from 115 artists: cards, that were sent in the context of an own artistic event, objects, collages, drawings, installations and whole series that deal with the subject “The way home”/"Heimweg".
The book Heimweg is published by the Publishing House of Modern Arts Nuremberg (Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg) and comprises all of the submitted postcards and texts. The content of the book is determined by the topic, the submitted postcards and the texts. In a very special way, the diversity and ideas of the way home are taken up. Renowned writers, philosophers and persons engaged in the cultural sector made contributions in form of texts. We attached great importance to a high quality of the depiction of the works of art. The book will be offered during the exhibitions and the auction, by the Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg and by culturalaffairs (Price 34,- Euros, order via Email: info@culturalfaffairs.de or Fax 0049 (0)89-21 66 83 77).
Initiators of the project Heimweg is culturalaffairs. In addition, the following companies support our project: Ecker & Baisch Facility Management and more GmbH, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Galerie Zink+Gegner, JAHRREISS & PARTNER GmbH, Ludwig Görtz GmbH, Tandem Lagerhaus und Kraftverkehr Kunst GmbH, terre des hommes Deutschland e.V., Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Walter Klug GmbH & Co. KG and Werner Murrer Rahmen.
The project is conducted by culturalaffairs, Yvonne Schmiddem.
The participating artists:
Regina Alfery, Ingmar Alge, Maria Best, Djawid C. Borower, Vera Bourgeois, Jonathan Callan, Heinz Daniels, Ruprecht Dreher, Tom Fecht, Hamish Fulton, Rainer Ganahl, Alexander Gutke, Alex Harris, Paul Huf, Stephen Hughes, Iska Jehl, Eva Koch, Joachim Koester, Kasper König, Andreas Kopp, Ruppe Koselleck, Rosa Maria Krinner, Richard Long, Rosilene Luduvico, Holger Maass, Monika Maurer-Morgenstern, Hertha Miessner, Martin Mlecko, Benjamin Monn, Alfredo Morales, Yoshitomo Nara, Simon Norfolk, Hirakawa Noritoshi, Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk, Udo Rein, Pipilotti Rist, Johannes Rodach, Martin Rosswog, Johanna Rylander, Juliao Sarmento, Margaret Sartor, Annette Schemmel, Fabian Schleicher, Sabine Schmiddem, Georg Schönharting, Dirk Spath, Tassilo Sturm, Anne Szefer Karlsen, Joep van Lieshout, Qun Wang Ai, Odilo Weber, Lawrence Weiner, Norbert Wiesneth, Lutz Wohlrab.
The first preview/exhibition from 10 – 12 September 2004 at Galerie Zink&Gegner, Munich was a great success. Our guests were fascinated by the different interpretations of “the way home”. There was shown a selection of 29 artists (out of the 203 postcards of 115 artists).
The second preview/exhibition will take place from 2 – 27 October 2004, Galerie Martin Kudlek (Schaafenstraße 8, 50676 Cologne). The opening will be on 1 October at seven o’clock in the evening. Martin Kudlek and Kathrin Bender have chosen 54 artists for this exhibition. The exhibition is opened from 2 – 27 October 2004 (Tuesday – Friday 02:00 pm – 06:30 pm and Saturday from 12:00 – 06:00 pm).
The whole collection of the Way Home Project will be shown at the „Haus der Kunst“ in Munich 9 December 2004, 07:30 pm. The postcards will be sold at the auction and the auction proceeds (apart from your share of course) will be donated to the children’s relief organization Terre des homes.
The postcards of all the artists will be released in a book, published by “Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg” (Publishing House for Modern Arts Nuremberg). The Publishing House will present the book at the “Frankfurter Buchmesse” /book fair in October