Artists

Jeanne van Heeswijk, Sophie Mak-Schram

Press release

For the first time, the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst has commissioned an artist working in the field of socially engaged art. Socially engaged art includes artistic practices where artists work with different groups of people as collaborators and develop a project together.

Stretching thresholds, holding streams is a project initiated by artist Jeanne van Heeswijk and developed with Sophie Mak-Schram and collaborators. A growing constellation of invested people from the surroundings of the Museum are being invited to think in and with the museum's thresholds. Together – as makers, artists, activists, neighbours, and associations – they are working on a project that takes its starting point inside the museum and flows in and out of it, over a period of several months. Therefore, a central aspect of the project is the notion of a «stream».