Megastructure Reloaded

About the exhibition:
The investigations into Megastructure were the starting point for ten projects by contemporary artists: José Dávila (Mexico), Simon Dybbroe Møller (Denmark), Ryan Gander (GB), Erik Göngrich (Germany), Franka Hörnschemeyer (Germany), Victor Nieuwenhuijs & Maartje Seyferth (Netherlands), Tobias Putrih (Slovenia/USA), Tomás Saraceno (Argentina/Germany), Katrin Sigurdardottir (Iceland/USA) and Tilman Wendland (Germany). Aside from these contemporary statements the exhibition shows drawings, collages and models of megastructure projects from the 1960s by Archigram, Archizoom, Alan Boutwell, Yona Friedman, Günther Domenig & Eilfried Huth, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz.. In addition, we will show Gordon Matta-Clark's film on his Parisian installation Conical Intersect, which was set-up in 1975 across from the construction site of the Centre Pompidou, one of the few realized megastructure 'lo ok-alikes'.

The exhibition architecture is developed by Dennis Crompton, a former member of Archigram, in collaboration with raumlabor_berlin, a Berlin based collective of architects. On the occasion of the exhibition a comprehensive bilingual catalogue has been published by Hatje Cantz.

MEGASTRUCTURE RELOADED is funded by the Capital Culture Fund, Berlin and the Berlin Lottery Foundation. Additional support is kindly provided by the British Council, Berlin; Danish Arts Council, Center for Icelandic Art, Reykjavik; Fundación/Collección Jumex, Mexico; Geruestbau Tisch GmbH, Berlin; Ikea Stiftung, Hofheim-Wallau; Koenig GmbH & Co KG, Moringen; Lafarge Gips GmbH, Oberursel; Mondriaan Stichting, Amsterdam; The Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green; Nawrocki Alpin Group, Berlin/London.

Project Partners: Archigram Archives, London, Greige / Buero fuer Design, Berlin, Hatje Cantz, Berlin; pro-qm, Berlin; raumlabor_berlin and Weiss-Heiten Design, Berlin