Cooperation becomes motto and motif in 2023

The "storyLab kiU" at Fachhochschule Dortmund has been the epitome of collaboration for years. The research projects are developed in collaboration with the Dortmund museums, the Academy for Theater and Digitality, the Mining Museum Bochum and the newly founded co-production laboratory of the City of Dortmund.

The results can be seen on the university floor (level 1) in the entrance area of the "storyLab kiU" as well as in the Fulldome and in the immersive space in the foyer of the "Dortmunder U".

The immersive room, created as part of the "page21" research project, is now open on Thursdays (4 to 8 p.m.) and Sundays (12 to 6 p.m.). It is equipped with five projectors, a tracking system and a loudspeaker system with 32 sound channels. This technology allows visitors to fully immerse themselves in a three-dimensional installation and experience works of art from the collections of the Museum Ostwall and the Museum of Art and Cultural History in a virtual, multi-sensory art journey.

Students are working together on an interdisciplinary basis at TU Dortmund University's "Campus Stadt" on the university floor. Under the motto "Engineering meets Art - make it sound", they will be presenting objects at the interface between art and technology from March 3 to April 16, 2023: sounding insulin, glowing bacteria, visible air or vibrating bodies. The exhibition "What statistics tell us about sport" is also interdisciplinary: Here, data journalists work together with statisticians to present the most exciting contributions from a seminar on the visualization of sports data.

Youth should be carefree - but the feeling of lightness has been thoroughly lost for many in recent years. At "uzwei", a group of young people are researching a feeling of floating. The result is the interactive exhibition "Unbeschwert", which can be experienced from February 3 to May 28, 2023. In autumn, "uzwei" will become the platform for the fifth edition of the "Emerging Artists" festival, which aims to support young Dortmund artists through cooperation with each other, but also through networking and professionalization. The associated exhibition runs from October 20 to January 28, 2024.

What symbioses are there between microorganisms, plants, animals, fungi and technical objects - and what could they be in the future? Dortmund artists Jana Kerima Stolzer and Lex Rütten speculate on this at the HMKV on level 3. Their exhibition "We grow, grow and grow, we're gonna be alright and this is our show" deals with the phenomenon of growth and symbiotic relationships in nature, it is about new cycles and alliances in the age of the Anthropocene (March 11 to July 30, 2023).

From September 2023, the exhibition "IRWIN - Collective before Collectives" will take the current discourse on collectives as an opportunity to focus attention on one of the oldest artists' collectives still active today: the Slovenian artists' collective IRWIN, which was founded 40 years ago. Together with the music group Laibach, IRWIN was one of the founding members of the meta-collective NSK, "New Slovenian Art", in 1984 (September 9, 2023 to January 28, 2024).

In 2023, the Museum Ostwall is putting one of its core tasks to the test: collecting. What do we collect, who is presented in the museum and who is not? How do we ensure more diversity in the art collection? The MO wants to discuss these questions together with a citizens' advisory board, which will be established next year. To this end, the MO is receiving funding from the program "Neues Sammeln. Initiative of the Cultural Foundation of the Federal States for the Intercultural Diversification of Museum Collections in Germany".

From May 2, 2023, the Museum Ostwall will be offering a fresh look at its collection from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day: under the title "Art -> Life -> Art. The Museum Ostwall yesterday, today, tomorrow", the team wants to show with the new collection presentation that the connection between art and life was already laid out when the Museum Ostwall was founded in 1949.

In the major special exhibition "Nam June Paik: I Expose the Music", the MO will focus on the live moments in the works of the internationally renowned media artist. Paik has always worked closely with other artists. These collaborations are just as much a part of the exhibition as four new works in which contemporary artists refer to Paik (duration: March 17 to August 27, 2023).

What do the Expressionists tell us today? What can we learn from them? These questions are the focus of the exhibition "Expressionism. The Horn Collection as a guest" (October 27, 2023 to February 18, 2024). The exhibition is complemented by works from the museum's own collection and the Kirchner Museum Davos.