World Out Of Joint Cat. Kunst Museum Winterthur

Since the 1960s, the installation has developed into an essential form of art. It confronts the audience with an abundance of information and a range of simultaneous events that constantly challenge the receptivity – an omnipresent condition in today’ s knowledge society. In spatial installations, classical art forms are hardly encountered anymore; they are presented mainly with everyday objects, ready-mades and new media. The spectators find themselves in the middle of the work, all senses are addressed and especially film, video, light, sound, and smells expand the usual aesthetic experience into a holistic experience. Inner density is generated continuously by arranging the numerous impressions subjectively and assembling them situationally. Through the use of new digital media, installations have gained additional complexity. The clear demarcation between artwork and audience disintegrates in favour of multimedia spaces in which the world virtually seems out of joint. The publication World Out Of Joint demonstrates how contemporary art responds to today’ s acute issues such as climate change, artificial intelligence, crypto-evolution, ecology, identity politics and migration.

Konrad Bitterli (born 1960) former curator of Kunstmuseum St. Gallen is since 2017 the new director of the Kunst Museum Winterthur and follows Dieter Schwarz in this directorate. Schwarz was an expert of art of the 1960s with worldwide high renown. The main focus in his work sees Konrad Bitterli in an intensive communication of art to the general public and wants to continue comparitive works as did shown with the exhibitions Hodler– Giacometti, Daumier– Pettibon, or about the work of so different artists as alike Roman Signer, Steven Parino, Jonathan Lasker, Donald Judd, Mona Hartoum et al. Lynn Kost was from 2004 to 2011 artistic director of the Fumetto – International Comix Festival in Lucerne, before he moved to the Swiss Museum Allerheilingen in Schaffhausen and to Bü ndner Kunstmuseum Chur. Here he curated in 2018 the show Always Different, Always the Same. Lynn Kost has since moved to Kunstmuseum Winterthur, where he is now responsible for the program of contemporary art.