Artists

Grace Ndiritu, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Gordon Matta-Clark, Maria Thereza Alves, Simon Denny, Nir Evron, Dor Guez, Congolese Plantation Workers Art League, Kathryn Larsen, Johannes Paul Raether, Lin May Saeed, Shimabuku, terra0, Ron Tran, Julia Watson

Press release

Around twenty international artists and collectives explore various models of resource governance—from Indigenous societies to utopian blockchain projects. The core issue of the exhibition is the administration of land. The core issue of the exhibition is the administration of land. Why are rents so high in Düsseldorf and other cities? How can the Amazon be preserved as the Earth‘s green lung?

Expansive video installations, sculptures made of chocolate, excursions, and collectively designed meeting spaces invite the museum and its visitors to locate themselves in the history of the global economy. Special focuses lie on the city of Düsseldorf as the headquarters of large companies, the origins of local prosperity in industrialization, especially mining, and the past of K21 as a parliament building. 

The exhibition examines the ground on which the K21 stands, both historically and geographically, and invites visitors to participate in the design of a sustainable and just future.

With works by Maria Thereza Alves, Simon Denny, Nir Evron, Dor Guez, Congolese Plantation Workers Art League (CATPC), Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Gordon Matta-Clark, Kathryn Larsen, Grace Ndiritu, Johannes Paul Raether, Lin May Saeed, Shimabuku, terra0, Ron Tran, Julia Watson, among others.