Module: The Museum as Business?
>The Museum as Business?< module is dedicated to the business activities of the museum such as the bookshop, hotel and café. Artists, including Bernhard Cella (bookshop), Jun Yang (hotel space) and Apolonija uterič and Meike Schalk (café) are each respectively faced with a set of functional, financial, social and aesthetic tasks, as well as with functions or functionality, existing forms of use and financial models and subsequently respond by developing alternative concepts for doing business.
Das Café Neubau
10.12.2010 - 00.00.2012
Curated by Julia Schäfer, Zane Zajanckauska, Nino Palavandishvili
Artists: Apolonija uterič, Meike Schalk
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Every two years, the café at GfKZ is redesigned by artists in the new building these have been Anita Leisz, followed by Jun Yang. For 2010 we have invited Apolonija uterič and Meike Schalk to design the projected Café KAFIČ, which takes its inspiration from the Arabic coffee house tradition. Bosnian in origin but with its spelling and pronunciation adapted to Slovenian, the word KAFIČ means corner café. uterič and Schalk are taking Leipzigs various twin towns as a conceptual starting point for a café. Their intention is to create a place where different cultures can come together to establish and share space, a use which will also be made perceptible in the furnishing. The conception aligns itself to the various functions of the café space; at once a museum café, club, venue and rendezvous for various scenes.
The furnishing of the old café will slowly disappear to be replaced by the new elements, which will be successively produced. Café KAFIČ will take as its starting point a Food Fair: Leipzig dishes from all over the world, taking place on 10 September in the GfZK café.
Before its planned completion in December 2010, the café will play host to three events in which the questions of cultural exchange and its potential for conflict and both hospitality and inhospitality will be explored.
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