Ricarda Mieth

Raum_Fahrt [Space_Travel]

2004

Germany/Poland

7 art graduates | 7 HGVs | 7 spaces
mobile exhibition between Berlin and Lodz

Seven fine arts graduates - Mona Babl, Christine Berndt, Won-Yeon Chung, Kati Gausmann, Ricarda Mieth, Ulrike Mohr and Anja Sonnenburg – leave the Berlin College of Art (Kunsthochschule Berlin/KHB) at the end of their studies and set off with 7 HGVs for Space_Travel. The planned route is Berlin-Lodz-Berlin, crossing the border at Frankfurt/Oder. Each HGV transports the work of the artist driving it. At various staging points along the way the storage space of the HGVs is opened up as an exhibition space that visitors can enter and walk around in.

In Lodz the HGV convoy is a guest of the city’s 1st International Biennale; invitation and exhibition layout - Karin Sander.

The writing on the vehicles, in German and Polish, SPACE TRAVEL ON THE ROAD BETWEEN BERLIN AND LODZ conveys the message about the project to the outside world. As the trip progresses, spaces and words take on new constellations each time the convoy moves on to a new location. The stopping places are motorway service stations, public squares and exhibition venues. That takes the group on a journey oscillating between the art context and everyday life.

Public sites and exhibition venues: Berlin – car park Karl-Marx-Allee | Frankfurt/Oder–Town Hall Square | Slubice – Heroes’ Square | Poznan – Galeria Mejska | Lodz – Akademia Sztuka Pieknych, Pasaz Schillera and Lodz Biennale exhibition venues | Lodz village – Church Square.