Atelier Van Lieshout

8 June 2024 – 18 August 2024

EINE STRASSE is an exhibition that questions the future of the city centre as the centre of a solidary urban community, as a living space of urban society. How can inner-city neighbourhoods develop as complex urban spaces that reflect the diversity of their heterogeneous residents instead of merely providing consumer-oriented offerings? How can they provide space for a balanced relationship between economy, culture and social engagement, in order to bring together residents, committed business owners and cultural actors? The project poses these questions together with the residents of the street, with everyday cultural actors, artists, politicians and other parts of society, in order to search for the city centre of tomorrow in an interdisciplinary dialogue.

On the subject of ‘home’ at Graf-Adolf-Platz, Atelier Van Lieshout presents a self-sufficient living quarter that was made in 2008, that oscillates between humour and ambivalence, as a cosy home and a pre-natal primal cell. Entitled Darwin, this sculpture refers to the survival of the fittest: whether in nature; humans; enterprise; political ideologies or nations. A clash/marriage between nature and undesired political systems.