The Frankfurt Art Association is an interdisciplinary exhibition house for contemporary art and culture. It was founded in 1829 by Frankfurt citizens as an independent art space that is not bound by any state or elite understanding of art. Here, socially relevant questions of our time are examined by artists and expanded to include the perspective of the sciences. At the Frankfurter Kunstverein, an inquisitive audience will find exhibitions that can be experienced with all the senses and new perspectives on our present.
Upcoming Exhibition: Grönland – Not For Sale – Kalaallit Nunaat Forever (opening on June 18 at 5:30 PM)
An exhibition by the ALPS Alpine Museum of Switzerland, Bern, in collaboration with the Frankfurter Kunstverein
Curated by Beat Hächler (Director of the ALPS Alpine Museum of Switzerland, Bern) and Gian Suhner (filmmaker) and for contemporary art by Franziska Nori (Director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein)
With Julie Edel Hardenberg
“Grönland – Not For Sale – Kalaallit Nunaat Forever” opens a cycle of political exhibitions at the Frankfurt Art Association that will run until 2028. Through the means of image analysis and art, the great shifts of our time are examined and fractures are made visible.
This exhibition is a journey to a country surrounded by the Arctic Ocean, six times the size of Germany, and which has involuntarily come into the focus of the major powers in recent years. Its strategic location at the crossroads between Canada, the USA, Russia, and Europe arouses the desire for dominance over the sea routes and access to the numerous raw materials. The country reflects all the geopolitical challenges that are currently affecting people in many regions of the world in a similar way. The consequences of global warming, the interests and the lack of solidarity of large transnational corporations to the detriment of local economies. Growing tensions between the state and citizens as well as identity-political conflicts within societies are increasing. What do we know about the people of Greenland, about nature, and about the connections between the economy, the environment, and culture? What about the history of colonial violence? Which political forces are laying claim to the country that yearns for independence?
“Greenland – Not For Sale – Kalaallit Nunaat Forever” is an exhibition presented in cooperation with the ALPS Alpine Museum of Switzerland, Bern. Over a period of four years, impressive panoramic images, intimate cinematic testimonies, and video interviews were created. These enable a sensory journey into the kaleidoscopic narratives of a complex country and its people. For the first time in Germany, Julie Edel Hardenberg has her say with her political art. This is the first comprehensive exhibition by one of the most influential artists in Greenland and Scandinavia.
