www.dam-online.de\/portal\/de\/Ausstellungen\/Ausstellungen2008<\/a><\/p>\nThe exhibition\u2019s title \u201cHeterotopia\u201d is taken from Michel Foucault\u2019s famous lecture and essay on \u201cOther Spaces\u201d, written in 1967. In it, the French philosopher outlines an analysis of space. For him, space is neither an abstract continuum nor the neutral coexistence of units, but a spatial situation that is characterized by a complex \u201cassembly of relations.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHeterotopias\u201d are thus social places that exist in parallel and possess a changed relational and structural fabric, enclaves in a world, examples being prisons or sanatoriums. The exhibition will present works that can be classified as \u201cOutsider Art\u201d: The creators of the art exist beyond the pale of the established art world, and were exposed to extreme emotional strain or unusual experiences, were systematically excluded or ostracized by society. DAM owns a small collection of outsider artworks, and they will be on show in the exhibition, among others Stefan H\u00e4fner\u2019s \u201cFuture City\u201d (it has now been expanded to feature three building complexes), Hans-J\u00f6rg Georgi\u2019 \u201cSix Storey\u201d cardboard airplane \u2013 both have their artistic home in Atelier Goldstein, Frankfurt\/Main \u2013 and the scroll pictures by Patient N. They are supplemented by pieces by other artists that all have in common that they imagine subjectively shaped living places or world systems: There are the works of Dutch artist Willem van Genk (1927 – 2005), which have inadequately be described as city and machine visions, reminiscent on the one hand of Dada, Pop Art, collage and comics, and, on the other, conveying much of the explosive force which the artist brought to bear in their creation. Then there is the entrancing kingdom of \u201cMonera\u201d, at which Dutch artist Gerard van Lankveld continues to work to this day. From the early 20th century Heidelberg Prinzhorn Collection come the sheets from Josef Heinrich Grebing\u2019s trading empire and Joseph Schneller\u2019s \u201cVilla Laube\u201d pieces. The \u201cHeterotopia\u201d is a version of the \u201cSchets of Schim. Intuitive Architectuur\u201d (\u201cIntuitive Architecture. Sketch or Madness), presented in 2007 as part of the Time Festival Gent in Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, and revised specially for the DAM. Originally, the outsider works were shown in the context of historical architectural visions that were in large part taken from the DAM Collection – a method that has now been deliberately avoided. Precisely the DAM context of non-outsider art highlights works that would otherwise be subjected to a rigid distinction between accepted art and non-accepted outsider art. The imaginative power of the works on show tackles the major challenge facing architecture – to create a built \u201cshell\u201d for the world that is in harmony with the subjective desires of its inhabitants.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Heterotopia: Works by Willem van Genk and Others A series of paintings and collages of Willem van Genk is on show in the exhibition ‘Heterotopia’ in the Deutsche Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt\/Main, from 31 May upto 24 August 2008. info: www.dam-online.de\/portal\/de\/Ausstellungen\/Ausstellungen2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibitions"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.collectiedestadshof.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.collectiedestadshof.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.collectiedestadshof.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.collectiedestadshof.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.collectiedestadshof.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.collectiedestadshof.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.collectiedestadshof.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.collectiedestadshof.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.collectiedestadshof.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}