20/11/2021– 6/3/2022

Kunsthaus Dresden
Municipal Gallery for Contemporary Art
www.kunsthausdresden.de

Rähnitzgasse 8, D - 01097 Dresden
Opening hours: Tue – Thu 2 – 7 pm, Fri – Sun 11 am – 7 pm
Outreach and mediation: every Sunday 2 – 4 pm

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Exhibition on the occasionof the 30th anniversaryof the Kunsthaus Dresdenin 2021
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Exhibition on the occasion of the 30th anniversaryof the Kunsthaus Dresden in 2021

Yoav Admoni, Maria Thereza
Alves und Jimmie Durham,Marie Athen­staedt, Alice
Creischer & Andreas
Siekmann, Lucile Desamory,
Hatakeyama Naoya,
Horikawa Michio, Hsu ChiaWei, Koike Teruo, AlicjaKwade, Miyakita Hiromi,
Munem Wasif, Sybille
Neumeyer, Kadija de Paula& Chico Togni & FELL,
Mathis Pfäffli, Erika Richter,
Shitamichi Motoyuki,
Suzuki Akio, Tang Han,
Zhou Xiaopeng, Stephanie
Zurstegge

Still Crazy—
30 Years
Kunsthaus
DresdenSat, 20/11/2021

Opening

2 pm: Annekatrin Klepsch (Deputy Mayor for
Culture and Tourism), Gisbert Porstmann (DirectorMuseums of Dresden), Christiane MennickeSchwarz and Kerstin Flasche (Kunsthaus Dresden),Miya Yoshida (Curator) and Svea Duwe (Artist).
Sat, 20/11/2021 & Sun, 21/11/2021

Opening Weekend

11 am – 7 pm: Free admission on the opening weekend. We are looking forward to your visit! The
bar offering regional drinks is open on both days.

Curated by Miya Yoshida in collaboration withKerstin Flasche and Christiane MennickeSchwarz / Kunsthaus Dresden

3 – 6 pm: Still Crazy—30 Years Kunsthaus Storytelling: Selected storytellers will be on siteto pitch tales. Musical interventions by ViktoriaLeléka.
In the middle of the pandemic year of 2021, theKunsthaus celebrates its 30th anniversary. On theopening weekend of the anniversary exhibition
Listening to the Stones, persons who have accompanied the long history of the venue or whosepaths have crossed will gather as narrators all overthe building to briefly relate their very personalencounters with the Kunsthaus. This deliberately
incomplete storytelling is not necessarily about
establishing the truth, but perhaps also about
myths and rumors—in any case, it is about eachstory being invigorated by direct encountersand exchange.
During the first year of German unification,
when the Kunsthaus Dresden was founded, it
was also entirely up in the air as to what the futurewould look like—it was and is crucial to act, tojointly develop ideas and visions and bring people
together in the context of art.
The singer and composer Viktoria Leléka
addresses the theme of the anniversary year—thewonderful ability of contemporary art to change
places and people and their relation to each other—in a composition written specifically for theKunsthaus, which can be repeatedly heard in thebuilding as a musical intervention during theopening weekend.

20/11/2021– 6/3/2022

With Martin Chidiac, Liam Floyd, Peter Krüger,Harald Kunde, Bettina Lehmann, Josef Panda,Christoph Rodde, Anna Till, Pascal Storz, SusanneWeiß, Su-Ran Sichling, Manfred Wiemer, MiyaYoshida, Jens Zander, Sven-Karsten Kaiser andmany others.

6Rähnitzgasse 8, D - 01097 Dresden
Opening hours: Tue – Thu 2 – 7 pm, Fri – Sun 11 am – 7 pm
Outreach and mediation: every Sunday 2 – 4 pm

67Note:Information for your visit asregards the current pandemic
situation can be found atwww.kunsthausdresden.de.
Dates and opening hours maychange depending on thecurrent regulations. We thankyou for your understanding.
Entrance fee:
4 EUR / discount: 2,50 EURGroup tickets:
3 EUR / discount: 2 EUR / person
Friday: free entry
Outreach and mediation:
Every Sunday 2 – 4 pm
We have guides in the exhibition—please do not hesitate tocontact them.
Special tours can be bookedat any time.

Figures:
1 Hsu Chia-Wei, Nuclear Decay
Timer, 2017, Photo: Hsu ChiaWei Studio, © Hsu Chia-Wei
2 Marie Athenstaedt,
Himmelskörper 2, 2015,© Marie Athenstaedt
3 Sybille Neumeyer,
time-image, 2017,© Sybille Neumeyer
4 Shitamichi Motoyuki,Tsunami Boulder #5, 2015–,© Shitamichi Motoyuki
5 Hatakeyama Naoya, Blast#14117, 2007, © Gallery TakaIshii, Hatakeyama Naoya
6 Mathis Pfäffli, 2021,© Mathis Pfäffli
7 Tang Han, ∞ Container, 2021,© Tang Han

Funded by:

Kunsthaus Dresden
Municipal Gallery
for Contemporary Art
Rähnitzgasse 801097 Dresden-Neustadt
www.kunsthausdresden.de

Homann-Stiftung

Design: Pascal Storz and Fabian Bremer

Den Steinenzuhören/
Listening tothe Stones

How old is humanity and how old is the planet thatsustains it? The comparison to the age of stones
radically relativizes human time measurement.
The exhibition is dedicated to the material that inmany respects forms the basis of our existence.
On the occasion of its 30-year existence, theKunsthaus Dresden presents a contemporary art
show on the theme of stones.
The exhibition is a provocative as well as
pensive response to the anniversaries being cele­brated­­—2021 also marks 160 years of GermanJapanese friendship. These occasions are met
with artistic as well as ethical and spiritual ques­
tions: What do we actually know about time?
How must we change our lives—and our culturalperspective—to save our plant and our existence?
The artworks enable a view from very different positions on our globe to stones, which
are regarded here not only as a resource, rough,uneventful, powerless, but also as a medium
of geological and planetary knowledge. Listening
to the Stones is also imbued with the hope fora symbolic restart by listening to stones asadvisers and companions enabling us to relearn
and rethink perspectives on the past and future.