FUTURES
Publikation zum 2. Jubiläum von PLATFORM3 München, als Ergänzung zum Künstlerkatalog PLATFORM3 works. Die Natur dieser Publikation ist ausdrücklich dokumentarisch. Fotografien: Jörg Koopmann. Herausgeber: Birgit Pelzmann, Nikolai Vogel, Marlene Rigler für PLATFORM3-Räume für zeitgenössische Kunst. München, 2011
Publikation zum 2. Jubiläum von PLATFORM3 München, als Ergänzung zum Künstlerkatalog PLATFORM3 works. Die Natur dieser Publikation ist ausdrücklich dokumentarisch. Fotografien: Jörg Koopmann.
Herausgeber: Birgit Pelzmann, Nikolai Vogel, Marlene Rigler für PLATFORM3-Räume für zeitgenössische Kunst. München, 2011
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Foreword<br />
Birgit Pelzmann<br />
This publication is a documentation, a celebratory snapshot, taken<br />
on the occasion of the second anniversary of PLATFORM3 – Spaces<br />
for Comtemporary Art. Several views of this multidisciplinary project<br />
are presented here side-by-side, accompanied by an assess-ment of<br />
PLATFORM3’s development in relation to its physical site.<br />
The colorful formal and literary variety of the vignettes<br />
featured in this publication corresponds to the organizational<br />
structure of PLATFORM3 which serves as exhibition space, artist<br />
residency program, production site and think tank for local and<br />
international artists, young curators and art administrators, as well<br />
as the longterm unemployed. Both onlookers as well as insiders<br />
have been invited to contribute to our anniversary publication, be<br />
it in word or in image.<br />
With his camera, photographer Jörg Koopmann captures<br />
both things apparent as well as things that seem inconspicuous.<br />
He documents and discloses glimpses of PLATFORM3’s interior spaces<br />
and the individuals who are at work here. In these shots, he grants<br />
just as much attention to the hidden nooks and crannies as he does<br />
to the studios, the workshop, and the exhibition spaces.<br />
In a brainstorming session on the topic of the studio as<br />
the classical origin of creativity, the artists based at PLATFORM3<br />
were asked to think about their individual work space in terms of<br />
the demands and requirements they would place on their “(ideal)<br />
studio”, their working environment. In the resulting works, each artist<br />
has articulated the core elements that are absolutely essential for<br />
him/her in order for the artistic process to begin. Not surprisingly,<br />
the fleeting perceptions of the artists’ immediate surroundings can<br />
help trigger the creative process and sometimes these impressions<br />
find their way into the final product, as demonstrated in the<br />
gouaches from the series “urban dreams” by Stefanie Unruh.<br />
The Viennese author Hanno Millesi also explores the question<br />
of what makes the ‘ideal’ workspace. In his delightful prose text,<br />
En plein air, he tells about his ‘dead letterbox’ and the ‘conversation’<br />
it triggered with René Magritte, and what this has to do with Magritte’s<br />
very personal attachment to the various places where his images<br />
first came into being.<br />
It is important to take the past into account when assessing<br />
the present. For the 2009 inauguration of PLATFORM3, Nikolai<br />
Vogel, one of the first resident artists, explored the historical roots<br />
and physical coordinates surrounding the PLATFORM3 complex.<br />
Excerpts from his original inaugural speech are being published here<br />
for the first time.<br />
This publication is documentation and more. It points<br />
beyond the status quo of the project PLATFORM3, it demonstrates<br />
all its potential and possibilities, and we hope that it may broaden<br />
the spectrum of possible cultural scenarios in the coming years, for<br />
all those who are invested and involved.<br />
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