Cold as Ice. Kälte in Kunst und Gesellschaft
In our words:
This exhibition will not leave you cold - it hits you, freezes you, shakes you awake. Between ice age and empathy, "Cold as Ice" shows how art makes social frost visible - and quietly asks for warmth. 🧊💜
In the organizer's words:
Cold means low outside temperatures as well as emotionlessness, a lack of empathy and a lack of solidarity. In this context, cold can become an artistic means of depicting and criticizing social conditions. But what about the idea of artistically focusing on the actual state of coldness in society today? What images do international artists find in the face of the overlapping global crises we are confronted with? In the face of discrimination and destruction, lies and hatred and thus processes of desolidarization that manifest themselves along violent power hierarchies and determine our coexistence?
The artistic works in Cold as Ice. Cold in Art and Society focus on the existential dimension of cold. Warmth is a basic human need, a prerequisite for well-being and health. Its absence has serious consequences: A lack of social cohesion, increasing alienation, indifference, loneliness, violence. The exhibition presents artistic images of an ever-cooling social climate, bringing together works that address (politically) frosty times, but also conjure up resistance and the counter-image of change and solidarity.
On display across 800 square meters are expansive installations, video works, sculptures, photographs, drawings, audio works and paintings, as well as performances and participatory formats. Renowned artists from an international context, most of whom are being shown in Bremen for the first time, will stand alongside positions yet to be discovered. There will also be several new productions.
Curated by Ingo Clauß and Janneke de Vries
Further information on the exhibition here: Cold as Ice. Cold in art and society
Supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Supported by the Waldemar Koch Foundation.
This content has been machine translated.Price information:
Reduced admission for students, trainees, volunteers, single parents and severely disabled persons as well as groups of 10 or more. Free admission for children and young people up to the age of 18 is made possible by Sparkasse Bremen AG.
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