World on a Wire
Exhibition
24.10.20 – 05.09.21
![Welt am Draht, Installationsansicht, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Foto: Stefan Rohner](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/nSkas6YxxIm5D0fbpDd3QUdPSEJ3yxvXGB8WfZoW.jpeg)
![Welt am Draht, Installationsansicht, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Foto: Stefan Rohner](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/iWOrSgdAkt3c3GwgZuxzLf2b5Nq1LkIsh3XIuoXx.jpeg)
![Welt am Draht, Installationsansicht, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Foto: Stefan Rohner](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/rAByRXAKDqpLsrzogJvMJFZ963cbWhNoCCLnJdFX.jpeg)
![Pipilotti Rist, TV-Lüster, 1993](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/xoNruy3JZlzrr7rIVopkFx2FI1WQH1iDL8YNSRTk.jpeg)
![Pipilotti Rist, Das Zimmer, 1994/2000 Courtesy Pipilotti Rist und Hauser & Wirth](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/2vCjLsb5dZVQs6nOVlxHK8W7OjMs5LWSzUnNUng2.jpeg)
![Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Welt am Draht, 1973, Filmstill, © Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/iagQuyAJDK7gkG1A7WiNqIF1r5HHc4twJ6c9Cw4p.jpeg)
![Matthew McCaslin, Ohne Titel, 2000, Foto: Stefan Rohner](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/sNbaIQpf9n4iEouF7SAMnUkvRgNGsG9AsN4PhDFq.jpeg)
![Welt am Draht, Installationsansicht, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Foto: Stefan Rohner](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/uC4bnER9GKyS8fBqBjJUKk8fKFCFjnxxh8ErjpNU.jpeg)
![Welt am Draht, Installationsansicht, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Foto: Stefan Rohner](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/LWtjsQ8mSY7MQO7CFUyivYE0gG8UNUfsUvHZPhMp.jpeg)
![Mona Hatoum, Roadworks, 1985, Filmstill](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/R0B2Tak6RtQGoROmSDgSg2PbmlHKbiDh6YNumykB.jpeg)
![Mona Hatoum, Reflection, 2013, Foto: Stefan Rohner](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/DWIruZ1NhB0jZVOZNjDhUGmzah5FJ7rOr4xyMT5x.jpeg)
![Welt am Draht, Installationsansicht, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Foto: Stefan Rohner](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/1Uij8nVupWftmkBbErVldfkYIPJSiynLtkWzSOiH.jpeg)
![Roman Signer, Beim Radiosender Beromünster, 2008, Filmstill](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/nBtPkXHPVj79xriLucTAOMRoJdQsG3TSS0zkXPm1.jpeg)
![Aleksandra Signer, Haus, 1997](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/Ex7UZdnwjzo2j2MnuFM34pzVGRjzQdsdhVKIFGQt.jpeg)
![Andy Guhl, Peter Liechti, Norbert Möslang, Kick That Habit, 1989 veröffentlicht, Foto: Stefan Rohner](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/vSWuzBg1chCSV0ROYC2S0rX6pmoz3EXXG9urnHF0.jpeg)
![Andy Guhl, Peter Liechti, Norbert Möslang, Kick That Habit, 1989 veröffentlicht, Filmstill](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/Sz8HcKsMImBlxYv6I7J9Z7nOfoZisD9Y5EImRI0N.jpeg)
![Welt am Draht, Installationsansicht, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Foto: Stefan Rohner](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/M5mULPmDiHkeaFsDYfVZDm595PT7qeudSG4ph9bc.jpeg)
![Silvie Defraoui, Chérif Defraoui, Cartographie des contrées à venir [Kartierung der zukünftigen Länder], 1979, Foto: Stefan Rohner](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/6C4LYE2eR4m2kmCpbm7pXCGmVkf5AidjpdG3S2Iw.jpeg)
![Alexander Hahn, The Bernoulli Itinerary, 1991, Foto: Stefan Rohner](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/nDPre9yP6vRchcLbaRTTFMt0ez48RITvqexEeFHX.jpeg)
![MANON, La dame au crâne rasé, 1978, Foto: Stefan Rohner, © ProLitteris Zürich](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/wfx0AHGqZ8GcAgOemSDqUefnPDDwbxzxYwuNm7DM.jpeg)
![MANON, La dame au crâne rasé, 1978, Foto: Stefan Rohner, © ProLitteris Zürich](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/QflgOAo40anrxQHLGjEOQn4qzzFtGINgb74JbYmc.jpeg)
![MANON, La dame au crâne rasé, 1978, Foto: Stefan Rohner, © ProLitteris Zürich](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/IjeRZy9n39aiPFfx1p8mBUZKWLgC1o71HYllaHz1.jpeg)
![Jason Rhoades, Light, 1997, Foto: Stefan Rohner](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/3V11NiqdATSTbBwzS7QW23GILT8JGs6H2b4VEGLi.jpeg)
![Georg Gatsas, SOMA, 2020, Foto: Stefan Rohner](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/CgbSHc60V2NxAunjefKdwzMOaVhNKWCtO2uLxqNB.jpeg)
![Welt am Draht, Installationsansicht, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Foto: Stefan Rohner](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/nKydDL2jSGfi8V9ERX3QJm2WKkUC2K0LjjpDDAeT.jpeg)
![Matthew McCaslin, Trees Like Me, 2018, Foto: Stefan Rohner](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/vrarsQZlg7UeqY2iXig3jD6Q5QFZvB8GxkBWNIm4.jpeg)
![Matthew McCaslin, Untitled (World on a String), 1997/2007, Foto: Stefan Rohner](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/hlDx2IH9FlwIaogKr3BzhHsvkcRX5Et65hu4lwcM.jpeg)
![Peter Liechti, Norbert Möslang, The Sound of Insects – Record of a Mummy, 2008, Filmstill](/img/cache/thumb900/events/medias/2bvjBMNLLAYdNL2WJbhHrkXhVku9Wp7WeYaWA0on.jpeg)
Installation art with projections, neon, and fluorescent lights as well as video art depend on a constant flow of electrical energy. New technologies have always offered new aesthetic and conceptual possibilities that artists have used intensively since the late 1960s. Precisely because this rapidly changing technology is part of everyday life and reflects the rapid and contradictory developments of the present, its messages are particularly relevant.
Artists
Karin Karinna Bühler, Silvie & Chérif Defraoui, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Georg Gatsas, Andy Guhl, Alexander Hahn, Mona Hatoum, Peter Liechti, MANON, Matthew McCaslin, Norbert Môslang, Jason Rhoades, Pipilotti Rist, Keith Sonnier, Aleksandra Signer, Roman Signer
Curator
Roland Wäspe
Download
Press release (PDF)
Location
Kunstmuseum St.Gallen
Museumstrasse 32
9000 St.Gallen
Switzerland
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Website
https://www.kunstmuseumsg.ch