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With Monika Sosnowska’s project in the imposing interior courtyard of the K21 Ständehaus is made available to an artistic intervention for the first time. At two-year intervals beginning in 2010, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen will be inviting internationally acclaimed artists to use the "airspace" above the piazza as the site of a contemporary intervention, each designed to heighten awareness of the museum as a "house of art" in the eyes of entering visitors...
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Monika Sosnowska, "Stairs", 2010, 2100 x 174 cm, installation at K21 Ständehaus, photo: A. Kukulies, Düsseldorf © Monika Sosnowska
With Monika Sosnowska's project The Staircase / Die Treppe, 2010, the imposing interior courtyard of the K21 Ständehaus is made available to an artistic intervention for the first time
At two-year intervals beginning in 2010, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen will be inviting internationally acclaimed artists to use the "airspace" above the piazza as the site of a contemporary intervention, each designed to heighten awareness of the museum as a "house of art" in the eyes of entering visitors.
Chosen for the first project in the series was Polish artist Monika Sosnowska, born in Ryki in 1972, whose artistic idiom is energized by an enthralling dialogue between art and architecture. As a rule, her works generate tension by suggesting the question: "Already architecture – or still sculpture?" – and vice versa.
This installation has been made possible by Provinzial Rheinland Versicherungen in the framework of the sponsorship series "Provinzial – Engagement im Rheinland für zeitgenössische Kunst" (Provinzial – A Commitment to Contemporary Art in the Rheinland). At the same time, it marks the conclusion of this five year collaboration with numerous museums throughout the Rheinland.
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
Ständehausstraße 1
40217 Düsseldorf
Source: www.kunstsammlung.de