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Auf Weltreise – diese Frauen waren ihrer Zeit voraus

Participants: Miran Mohar, Thibaut de Ruyter, Inke Arns  

Book presentation of the HMKV magazine 2023/2 for the exhibition Was ist Kunst, IRWIN? (Verlag Kettler) with Miran Mohar (artist of the collective IRWIN), Dr. Inke Arns (HMKV director and curator of the exhibition) and Thibaut de Ruyter (curator of the exhibition)

Event in cooperation with the HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, and SKICA Slowenisches Kulturinformationszentrum, Berlin

The exhibition Was ist Kunst, IRWIN? (09 September 2023 - 28 January 2024 at the HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein at the Dortmunder U, curated by Inke Arns and Thibaut de Ruyter) focuses on the Slovenian artist collective IRWIN, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2023. The exhibition consists of two large chapters. The first exhibition chapter is concerned with black humour which is constantly present in the works of IRWIN. The second chapter deals with questions of the state – and how IRWIN, with that, comments on current topics such as migration.

On occasion of the exhibition, a new HMKV magazine (2023/2) will be published in October with Verlag Kettler. In addition to new essays by Inke Arns and Thibaut de Ruyter and an extensive photo documentation of the exhibition it will also contain a “source book” (texts: Inke Arns, Lara Both) that systematically breaks down the image sources of IRWIN’s works and situates them in their (art-)historical context.

German/English. 

Price: 10,00 € (at the HMKV bookshop) / 18,00 € (incl. VAT and shipping when bought at Verlag Kettler).

Miran Mohar is an artist, graphic and stage designer based in Ljubljana. He is a member of the artist group IRWIN and co-founder of the art collective Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK), the graphic design studio New Collectivism and the Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre. Since 2008 he has also been an associate professor, head of the fine arts department and vice-dean at the Academy of Visual Arts in Ljubljana (AVA).

Dr. Inke Arns is the HMKV director and curator of Was ist Kunst, IRWIN? (2023-24) at HMKV Dortmund (www.hmkv.de). Published a.o. Neue Slowenische Kunst (Regensburg 2002), IRWIN: Retroprincip 1983-2003 (Berlin 2003), Avantgarda v vzvratnem ogledalu (Ljubljana 2006). www.inkearns.de

Thibaut de Ruyter is a French-German architect, curator and critic. His interests are based on new media and their archeology, the relationship between art and architecture and the artistic scene in post-Soviet countries.