Artists of Muthesius University for Fine Arts and Design in Kiel investigated forms of territoriality as well as questions relating to landscapes and their calculability, configuration and control for the Digital Art Exhibition "An Imperfect Map".
"An Imperfect Map (Will Have to Do) is a digital exhibition by the Muthesius University for Fine Arts and Design in Kiel, Germany. Originally planned as an installation, it is available for the free exploration online now. Seven different artists created works that revolve around the topic of topography and mapping.
Setting aside the map as object the artistic works explore practices of collecting, editing and recording, as well as assemblage, notation and speculation. Through painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and musical processes, aspects of landscapes are brought to the fore, leaving behind the cartographic mode of surveying without once bringing a horizon line into play.
The involved artists Leandra Bigale, Beatrice Born, Ulrich Fischer, Johann Haberlah, Paula König, Merle Voigt and Ziqui Zhao are students at the Muthesius University, the exhibition was initiated and supervised by Prof. Antje Majewski. The title "An Imperfect Map (Will Have to Do) comes from a poem by the Muscogee poet Joy Harjo called "A Map to the Next World".
The digital exhibition can be found here.
The main goal of the Muthesius University in Kiel is to promote art, design and spatial strategies via research and development projects as a focal point for work and intellectual debates. As the only art university in the State of Schleswig-Holstein, the Muthesius is not only a place to develop culturally relevant biographies but with its project studies also a place of particular experimentation and realisation.
