Düsseldorf – empire of lights

Kunstpunkte 2023

09/09/202409/09/2024 Tobias M. Schiel5 Comments

Kunstpunkte (literally “art spots”) stands for two weekends when more than 100 artists in Düsseldorf invite the public to visit their ateliers. These visits always fascinate me; they are a chance to get very close to art and artists, experiencing the places where the works are acutally made. This is similar to visiting the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (academy of fine arts) which I will cover in a separate post.

You may notice that I barely photograph the art itself, feeling much of it has already been reproduced (the last picture in this post shows part of an art work however). As for the artists themselves, I value their privacy, plus I am not really a portrait photographer. So here are some impressions from four different spots all of which you might not get to see outside of the Kunstpunkte.

Note: The next Kunstpunkte will take place next weekend and the weekend after.

Museum Views XIII (Düsseldorf)

22/07/202424/07/2024 Tobias M. Schiel5 Comments

The current Lens Artists Challenge is perfect pairs (or diptychs), and reading this prompt immediately reinded me I always wanted to pair these two. They were taken in 2023 but I never really got around to continuing this series with things I see in museums. So this was a very welcome reminder.

Look Up

11/07/201610/07/2016 Tobias M. Schiel11 Comments

Looking up in Düsseldorf (Germany) for the Weekly Photo Challenge.

Project 03 | Understanding Art. KIT – TAU (2)

21/03/201514/03/2015 Tobias M. Schiel4 Comments

As I moved around the art, the art moved me..

Kunst im Tunnel (KIT) is one of Düsseldorf’s most original museum spaces. It is literally part of a tunnel, a little odd-shaped piece of concrete left over above the actual tube and beyond a beautiful riverside walk along the Rhine river. It is very low at one end and very narrow at the other, and between the two ends, it is shaped like banana, or rather a banana box. The place is worth a visit in itself.

Tau, on he other hand, is the German word for both dew and a rope. It was chosen as a title for the collective exhibition of a class of Düsseldorf’s academy of the fine arts. The leaflet explains that no single work is ascribed to a single artist, thus drawing a parallel to both dew and a rope which are both constituted by smaller elements (the droplets, the single threads).

As a way of exhibiting art, this seems to be halfway between the art school exhibition I showed before and the museum I plan to take you to in some upcoming posts.

Let me just add that being there with a permit to photograph, I felt like a kid in a candy store.