
Vittorio Brodmann, Belia Zanna Geetha BrĂŒckner, Liza Dieckwisch, Julia Gruner, Alwin Lay, Hannah Levy, Artist Mukbang, Josephine Scheuer, Pablo Schlumberger, Slavs and Tatars
Schlaraffenland
Project Info
- đ Dortmunder Kunstverein
- đ Linda Schröer
- đ€ Vittorio Brodmann, Belia Zanna Geetha BrĂŒckner, Liza Dieckwisch, Julia Gruner, Alwin Lay, Hannah Levy, Artist Mukbang, Josephine Scheuer, Pablo Schlumberger, Slavs and Tatars
- đ Mareike Tocha, Rebekka Seubert
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Hannah Levy, âUntitledâ, 2024 exhibition view âSchlaraffenlandâ, Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2024, Photo: Mareike Tocha Courtesy: the artist, MASSIMODECARLO, Milan
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Hannah Levy, âUntitledâ, 2024 exhibition view âSchlaraffenlandâ, Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2024, Photo: Dortmunder Kunstverein Courtesy: the artist, MASSIMODECARLO, Milan

Pablo Schlumberger, âUneven bars routineâ (Detail), 2024 exhibition view âSchlaraffenlandâ, Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2024, Photo: Dortmunder Kunstverein Courtesy: the artist

Pablo Schlumberger, âEin Auge trockenâ (Detail), 2024 exhibition view âSchlaraffenlandâ, Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2024, Photo: Dortmunder Kunstverein Courtesy: the artist

Pablo Schlumberger, âHijo de la Moon Barâ (Detail), 2024 exhibition view âSchlaraffenlandâ, Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2024, Photo: Dortmunder Kunstverein Courtesy: the artist

Pablo Schlumberger, exhibition view âSchlaraffenlandâ, Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2024, Photo: Dortmunder Kunstverein Courtesy: the artist

exhibition view âSchlaraffenlandâ, (Pablo Schlumberger, Liza Dieckwisch), Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2024, Photo: Mareike Tocha

exhibition view âSchlaraffenlandâ, (Pablo Schlumberger, Vittorio Brodmann), Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2024, Photo: Mareike Tocha

Vittorio Brodmann, âRemembering the Plainsâ (2022), âMidnight Monsterâ (2022) exhibition view âSchlaraffenlandâ, Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2024, Photo: Dortmunder Kunstverein Courtesy: the artist, Galerie Gregor Staiger, ZĂŒrich

Vittorio Brodmann, âList of Self-Sabotaging Behaviourâ (2022), âA Parasol at Noonâ (2022) exhibition view âSchlaraffenlandâ, Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2024, Photo: Dortmunder Kunstverein Courtesy: the artist, Galerie Gregor Staiger, ZĂŒrich

Vittorio Brodmann, âMediocre Vanityâ (2022) exhibition view âSchlaraffenlandâ, Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2024, Photo: Dortmunder Kunstverein Courtesy: the artist, Galerie Gregor Staiger, ZĂŒrich

exhibition view âSchlaraffenlandâ, Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2024, Photo: Dortmunder Kunstverein

Alwin Lay, âStrohhalm Rot-Weissâ, 2014 exhibition view âSchlaraffenlandâ, Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2024, Photo: Mareike Tocha Courtesy: the artist, Christine König Galerie, Wien

Slavs and Tatars, âNot Moscow not Meccaâ, 2012 exhibition view âSchlaraffenlandâ, Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2024, Photo: Mareike Tocha Courtesy: the artist, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin

Slavs and Tatars, âNot Moscow not Meccaâ, 2012 exhibition view âSchlaraffenlandâ, Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2024, Photo: Mareike Tocha Courtesy: the artist, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin

Alwin Lay, âmod CLASSICâ, 2019/2024 exhibition view âSchlaraffenlandâ, Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2024, Photo: Mareike Tocha Courtesy: the artist, Christine König Galerie, Wien

Alwin Lay, âmod CLASSICâ, 2019/2024 exhibition view âSchlaraffenlandâ, Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2024, Photo: Mareike Tocha Courtesy: the artist, Christine König Galerie, Wien
Since the Middle Ages, the Schlaraffenlandâthe Land of Milk and Honeyâis the name of a utopian place, promising a better life and prosperity: prepared food just wings its way into your mouth, wine but gushes from the vines and even the architecture is scrumptious. A fountain of youth keeps the body healthy, wrinkle-free and pure, wage is earned while sleeping, slothfulness is worthwhile and dishonesty is acclaimed. Every day is a sunny Sunday.
The promise as well as the paradox of this culinary paradise have provided fertile soil for literature, fine arts and film to burgeon from ever since. Today, industrialisation and globalisation have ostensibly provided "schlaraffenlandish" conditions â at least regarding the availability of food in Western societies. Thus, the exhibition provides plenty of food for thought with sensual, humorous, whimsical and multidimensional artistic positions as well as a multifaceted supporting programme. They stimulate discussion like an Amuse Gueule; about the boon and bane of urban prosperity, growing socio-economic inequality, the (im)balance between excess, abundance and scarcity, nature and culture as well as with questions of the value of work and craftspeopleship.
Reading suggestions and thematically selected cook books will be available at the library of the German Cook Book Museum (Ostwall 60, Dortmund) providing a particular set of literature especially for this occasion.
With works by: Vittorio Brodmann, Belia Zanna Geetha BrĂŒckner, Liza Dieckwisch, Julia Gruner, Alwin Lay, Hannah Levy, Artist Mukbang, Josephine Scheuer, Pablo Schlumberger, Slavs and Tatars
With performances by: Belia Zanna Geetha BrĂŒckner, Julius Metzger and Artist Mukbang