The value of the unique piece
What do we associate with craft? What actions and techniques come to our mind apart from industrial mass production? What would we like to find in the context of craftsmanship? The exhibition "Myth of Craft. Between Ideal and Everyday Life" at the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main focuses on the universal values and messages associated with crafts in the past, present and future. The show will present both romanticisations and ideologies, and focus on the feelings and affects, ideas and desires that are evoked in the individual and in society around what is produced by hand. Numerous objects, films, photographs and works of art will be used to stimulate contemporary debates on craft and to illustrate the social dimension of design. The exhibition is being created in cooperation with the Museum of Decorative Arts of the Dresden State Art Collections and the vorarlberg museum in Bregenz. In addition to the commonalities of the institutions and their anchoring in European cultural history, their locations in differently shaped urban and rural spaces also give rise to diverse narratives surrounding craft practice, which will be exemplarily expanded with global perspectives. (am)
The Myth of Craftsmanship. Between Ideal and Everyday Life
29 April to 11 September 2022
Museum Angewandte Kunst
Schaumainkai 17
60594 Frankfurt
Phone: +49 (0)69 212 34037
Opening hours:
Tuesday to Friday 12 – 18 h
Wednesday 12 – 20 h
Saturday and Sunday 10 – 18 h
