INTERACTIONS 2024

In the organizer's words:

With Interactions 2024, we are once again inviting you to spend the summer in the outdoor and public interior of the Bundeskunsthalle, where new works of art will complement the existing ones: The Circular Appearing Rooms water pavilion by Jeppe Hein, which is presented on the square every summer, and the Bonn slide by Carsten Höller, which winds its way down the façade, turning on its own axis.

The new works of art also invite visitors to play, reflect or linger. All of the works contain their own narrative to be discovered alongside the interaction, but also deal with various 'visual languages' as a cross-border and universal form of communication.

This year sees the addition of Gabriel Lester's large rooftop installation Bouncer, which enables a collective but also an individual spatial experience by passing through a series of swinging doors as if in a stop-motion moment.

Linda Nadji offers a mental bridge between inside and outside with two gilded high seats Meanwhile, both on the roof and in the foyer, and questions the options of communication through the unusual change of perspective.

Clare Strand, in turn, reflects the mechanisms of the art market in a playful way with her fairground stand All that Hoopla.

INTERACTIONS, INTERVENTIONS AND IRRITATIONS PROVIDE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN ART.

Temitayo Ogunbiyi enriches the course on the museum square with an organic climbing composition consisting of several steel rods wrapped in plant fibers. The shapes of these rods, which are inspired by plants and strands of hair, interpret lines that connect Lagos in Nigeria with the Rhine and thus with various communities in Europe.

Esra Gülmen's Controversy Teeter-Totter seesaws offer a playful way of finding a balance between two contrasting statements, while the hand-lettered benches Do you want us here or not by Finnegan Shannon allow visitors to pause and offer a place for reflection in dialog with the other artworks. In their audio pieces Meet me at the bench, the artist collective LIGNA also dedicate themselves to the bench as a place of communication or lingering.

Olaf Nicolai's soccer goal walls on the Südwiese promote individual and collective competition and bring different cultural and temporal levels 'into play' in terms of content, while the bouncy castle by artist duo FAMED puts the soul and decor of "Das Kapital" on clay feet.

Jonas Lund will show his digital racing game on the LED wall at intervals, with colors and shapes whizzing by. This can be used as a computer game in the salon, as can Temitayo Ogunbiyi's You will flow, which offers a virtual playground experience.

And last but not least, Tomas Kleiner's Aufbruch in die Schwebe takes us into the bearable "lightness of being".

All of these works make it clear that art can be an open offer that serves both the individual and the shared experience - a togetherness in which rigid roles and behaviors are questioned and openness, tolerance and sensitivity are promoted. All participating artists are interested in forms of expression and techniques that reduce the possible distance to art, but also within a complex, diversified society.

Price information:

Admission is free of charge.