International Slow Art Day – for Adults

One day each year – April 14 in 2018 – people all over the world visit local museums and galleries to look at art slowly. Participants look at five works of art for 10 minutes each and then meet together over lunch to talk about their experience. That’s it. Simple by design, the goal is to focus on the art and the art of seeing.

In June 2008, Phil Terry, founder of the Reading Odyssey and founder and CEO of Collaborative Gain, held an experiment. He wanted to know what would happen if museum and gallery visitors changed the way they looked at art. Instead of breezing past hundreds of artworks in the standard 8 seconds, he wondered what would happen if people looked slowly at just a few.

A year later, in the summer of 2009, Phil continued the experiment: he asked four people to join him at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and look at another small set of works, slowly.Participants felt invigorated – and feedback was so positive that a few months later, in October 2009, Phil organized a third test, this time featuring 16 museums and galleries in the US, Canada and Europe. Participants continued to report great feedback. People loved the experience of looking slowly and the host’s job as facilitator couldn’t have been easier: all they had to do was pick a few pieces of art and get out of the way. After that, Phil launched Slow Art Day as an annual global event with now hundreds of museums and galleries around the world participating.

Draiflessen Collection will be participating in Slow Art Day for the first time.

Admission € 10
Registration by 11 April 2018