Opening: "Art Meeets Companies"

Invitation

On Friday, April 11, from 5.30 pm, the exhibition “Art Meets Companies” will open in the Showroom, including a panel with the participating artists Madeleine Andersson & Gary Zhexi Zhang. Moderated by Andreas Niegl. A cooperation project of ZfKW, TRegKS, University of Kassel and documenta Institute.

The pilot project “Art Meets Companies” is organized by the Department of Art & Economics at the University of Kassel and the documenta Institute and led by Professor Mi You. During the project, the selected artists collaborated with various companies in an open-ended process. The concept of this project was to consider artistic practice as an innovative method that can support transformation processes in companies with regard to future challenges and opportunities. In exchange with managers and employees, the artists asked questions and identified hopes and challenges in relation to ongoing transformation processes, placed them in a larger social context and speculated together about the future.
The main objective of the project was to implement and evaluate these concrete collaborations with a view to developing a methodology for cooperation between independent artists and companies that can be further expanded in the future.

Andreas Niegl (Scientific Associate at the documenta Institute and project manager of “Art Meets Companies”) will lead the associated workshop “Artistic Experiments Outside of the Art World” on Saturday, April 12. Together with the two participating artists, he will explore the key topic of the project: "Artistic Experiments Outside of the Art World".
The workshop will be held in English.

The exhibition runs from April 12 to May 26, 2025. The entrance is free.

Further information can be found at: https://www.zfkw.de/veranstaltungen