RAVENSBURG.- The exhibition Walk This Way spans an arc from the 1960s all the way to the present and directs attention to works by contemporary artists in which the city becomes a stage and the act of walking evolves into an artistic statement. Walk This Way brings together works by artists who, in attitudes ranging from playfulness to provocation, travel their own paths of exploration, appropriation and reinterpretation, and who present a world in movement, into which viewers are integrated on a sensory and emotional level.

The public spaces of cities were always a place of seeing and being seen. The multifaceted, constantly changing architecture on the one hand and the ceaselessly accelerating movements of passers-by on the other led to an abundance of fresh impressions and living environments. The avant-gardes of the 1960s offered their specific responses: for example, the Situationist International focused in its “Psychogéographie” on the interplay between geographical surroundings and the emotional experience of space and formulated visions of cities aiming not at economic considerations but at collective creativity and joyful play. With their actions, artists revealed the sexualized gazes of passers-by and called for a rethinking of rigidly determined gender roles as well as of images of identity. Since then, artists have inscribed their own stories into cities in all sorts of ways and have made urban space the site for conducting artistic investigations and for negotiating social and political concerns.

With works by Francis Alÿs, Constant, Martin Creed, Guy Debord, Yolanda Domínguez, Valie Export/Peter Weibel, Larissa Fassler, Regina José Galindo, Kit Fitzgerald/John Sanborn, Asta Gröting, Sharon Hayes, Esther Hovers, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Kubra Khademi, Pope.L, Gerhard Lang, Olaf Nicolai, Adrian Piper, Pipilotti Rist, Florian Slotawa, John Smith, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Simon Weckert, Krzysztof Wodiczko

Curators: Kristina Groß, Ute Stuffer (director)