MAIN SPACE | 05.04.2023 – 16.07.2023

THE STATE OF AFFAIRS?

As a direct follow-up to Michael Pinsky’s installation THE FINAL BID, we would like to enter the discussion about ecological sustainability—also in the cultural sector. Carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, and the Earth’s fragile ecosystems are increasingly unstable and unpredictable. Estimates of how the environment will behave are becoming less reliable, as the conditions under which such prognoses were developed are constantly changing or no longer exist as they once did. 

This theme is at the heart of the Draiflessen Collection’s spring/summer 2023 program. The focus is on the questions: How can we (survive) in the age of rapid climate change? What perspectives are needed to reassess the relationship between humans and the environment? The project was inspired and motivated by our recent collaboration with the British artist Michael Pinsky and the jointly developed exhibition THE FINAL BID, as well as by the enormous boom that the topics of environmental protection and climate change have experienced in recent years— not least in cultural institutions, as evidenced by the key phrase “green museum.” 

During the planned period, the museum will be less a venue for a traditional exhibition and more a place and platform for discussion, conversation, and exchange. A series of different event and presentation formats is planned. Representatives from various expert communities will be invited to approach the questions from artistic, scientific, and political-activist perspectives and creatively search for new possibilities and results. How do they do it? And what can we learn from them? 
DER STAND DER DINGE? | © Draiflessen Collection

Accompanying programe

June

Sunday
11.06.2023

11.30 – 15.00 | Workshop

Resource-Saving, Unpackaged, Nutritious: Use the Power of Wild Herbs in Everyday Life! ***fully booked

Workshop with Anke Höller

Herb expert Anke Höller introduces you to the world of wild herbs.

Friday
16.06.2023

15.30 – 17.00 | Special Guided Tour

In the Draiflessen Garden ***fully booked

Garden Tour with Georg Post

What characterizes a sustainable garden? How can we adapt our gardens to climate change?

Sunday
18.06.2023

12.30 – 15.30 | Interactive programme

Repair Café

On three Sundays in June and July, a Repair Café invites you to repair or upgrade clothes or other textiles.

Wednesday
28.06.2023

11.00 – 13.00 | Holiday Activities

Upcycling – Screen Printing *** fully booked

We breathe new life into your old favorites with colorful screen prints!

Thursday
29.06.2023

11.00 – 13.00 | Holiday Activities

A Different Approach to Print Technology

We will explore an old printing technique in a new guise. Instead of engraving copper plates, we will carve alternative printing plates made from old milk and juice cartons.

July

Thursday
06.07.2023

18.00 – 19.30 | Talk

Sustainable Water Management in the Age of Climate Change

Lecture by Claudia Pahl-Wostl

Thursday
06.07.2023

11.00 – 13.00 | Holiday Activities

Kintsugi: Modern – A Family Workshop

We will practice the most decorative method of repairing ceramics and porcelain.

Sunday
09.07.2023

12.30 – 15.30 | Interactive programme

Repair Café

On three Sundays in June and July, a Repair Café invites you to repair or upgrade clothes or other textiles.

Wednesday
12.07.2023

11.00 – 13.00 | Holiday Activities

Upcycling – Screen Printing

We breathe new life into your old favorites with colorful screen prints!

Thursday
13.07.2023

15.30 – 17.00 | Talk

Glass

A talk by Tanja Revermann

Glass through the centuries: are all its qualities positive?

Thursday
13.07.2023

11.00 – 13.00 | Holiday Activities

Recycled Paper Beads *** fully booked

Colorful paper from old magazines becomes paper beads.