Gregor Schneider. Welcome
In the organizer's words:
Rooms and houses are both the central material and the essential metaphor in the work of the internationally renowned artist Gregor Schneider. For Haus Esters, he has developed a new work, Haus Alhman Aldaas, specifically for this location and its history. Schneider has invited a family to live in the Haus Esters museum for a certain period of time. The father fled Syria in 2015 and has been living in Germany for some time with his family, who followed him a little later. The family with two small children had furnished the first floor according to their own wishes and ideas. During this time, in April 2025, the museum was not open to the public. The house once again fulfilled its original purpose and served as a private living space. What happens to a museum like Haus Esters when it is inhabited by people with a different cultural background? What aesthetic influence have the new residents had on the rooms and the museum - and vice versa: how do rooms shape people's lives? When the family moved out at the beginning of May, all the mobile furnishings disappeared. Only a few traces remained: wallpaper, curtains, signs of use. Where the family moved to and lives today remains an open question. With the Welcome project, Gregor Schneider questions three fundamental dimensions of the location: the house as early 20th century modernist architecture, as an interface between art and everyday life and as a museum exhibition space. The temporary conversion of Haus Esters also refers to a humanitarian and legal context: the topic of flight and migration in Europe.
The exhibition Gregor Schneider. Welcome is part of the HLHE Dialog series, which has been taking place in the neighboring houses Lange and Esters since 2017. Contemporary positions from the fields of art, design and architecture as well as historical themes are interlinked. The theme of the current dialog is The Special Place. Schneider's new site-specific project forms the counterpart to the exhibition Teilweise möbliert, exzellente Aussicht in Haus Lange.
This content has been machine translated.Price information:
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum adults 8 euros reduced 4 euros Haus Lange Haus Esters adults 8 euros reduced 4 euros up to 18 years Free admission
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