The two new >Frankfurter Mélange< chairs, made of the orginal vintage chairs, are part of the new exhibition >Pure Gold. Upcycled! Upgraded!< of the
ifa (Insitut für Auslandsbeziehungen).
The opening of the ten years world tour exhibition will be at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg (MK&G).
Exhibition Opening
Pure Gold. Upcycled! Upgraded!
on 14 September 2017 at 7.00 p.m.
at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany
The co-creative exhibition has been conceived and brought together by Volker Albus, designer and professor at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in conjunction with six other international curators. It gathers multiperspectival approaches from 53 designers for the re-use of raw materials that have already been processed to create new objects of greater value. The exhibition theme of upcycling aims to raise awareness of alternative production techniques while pointing up contemporary European and non-European design developments.
In addition, Axel Kufus, designer and professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, will be launching a digital platform which, extending beyond the exhibition itself, will serve as a repository of knowledge and a network for the international maker scene.
Pure Gold. Upcycled! Upgraded! is an ifa exhibition project to mark the institute’s 100th anniversary. The exhibition in Hamburg will be its only showing in Germany and the first stop on a ten-year tour of 20 venues around the world.
ifa (Insitut für Auslandsbeziehungen celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2017. Germany’s oldest organisation for the cultivation of foreign cultural relations was founded in 1917 as a “work of peace in the midst of war”. ifa is now considered a competence centre for international cultural relations and artistic discourse. It offers comprehensive activities around cultural exchange and civic conflict resolution. The basis of its international orientation is a far-reaching network of partners both in Germany and abroad. Its theme for the 2017 anniversary year is “Cultures of We”.
Pure Gold. Upcycled! Upgraded!
15 Sep. 2017 – 21 Jan. 2018
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Steintorplatz, 20099 Hamburg
Germany
www.ifa.de
Exhibition concept: Volker Albus
Curators: Volker Albus, Frankfurt (for Europe), Adélia Borges, São Paulo (for Latin America), Tapiwa Matsinde, London (for sub-Saharan Africa), Divia Patel, London (for South Asia), Bahia Shehab, Cairo (for North Africa/Middle East), Eggarat Wongcharit, Bangkok (for Southeast Asia) and Zhang Jie, Beijing (for East Asia).
Designers and design firms: 56thStudio/Saran Yen Panya, Massimiliano Adami, Volker Albus, David Amar, Yuttana Anothaisintawee, Association for the Protection of the Environment (A.P.E.), Jean-Marc Attia, Marjan van Aubel & James Michael Shaw, Bär + Knell, Roswitha Berger-Gentsch, Sandra Böhm, breadedEscalope, Fernando Brízio, Luján Cambariere/Colectivo Ático de Diseño, Cheng Biliang, Paul Cocksedge, Matali Crasset, Laetitia de Allegri & Matteo Fogale, Piet Hein Eek, El Ultimo Grito, Juli Foos, Gompf + Kehrer, Breg Hanssen, Brunno Jahara, Laura Jungmann & Cornelius Réer, Junk Munkez, Tobias Juretzek, Dhara Kabaria/studio Alternatives, Khmissa, Saruta Kiatparkpoom, Silvia Knüppel, Suwan Kongkhunthian, Dirk Vander Kooij, Jakob Landes, Ramón Llonch/Artlantique, Mieke Meijer, Waltraud Münzhuber, Hamed Ouattara, Micaella Pedros, Piratas do Pau/Nelsa Guambe, Sahil & Sarthak, ML. Pawinee Santisiri, Peter Schäfer, Diederik Schneemann, Alafuro Sikoki-Coleman, Avni Sejpal/Studio Avni, Janina Stübler, Domingos Tótora, Up-fuse, Wang Shumao, Wei Minghui, Eggarat Wongcharit and Zhang Han & Sui Hao & Li Hua.
