Öffentliche Führungen Im Atelier. Raum, Arbeit, Mythos

The studio has always been considered a projection surface: a place of retreat, of inspiration – a space of intimacy and public attribution at the same time. Alberto Giacometti has shaped this topos with his sparse, almost mythical studio. Andy Warhol's Factory, on the other hand, turned the studio into a social space in which art, production and society merged. Today, the studio can be a factory, a collective workspace in which art emerges from visible processes. For many contemporary artists, the studio is no longer just a physical place, but also a screen, an interface, a digital network. At the same time, the studio itself repeatedly became a motif, a stage for artistic work. The exhibition sheds light on different ideas, myths, and realities of the studio by bringing together works from the collection with a selection of video works by Klodin Erb, Paul McCarthy, and Adrian Paci, among others. They show the studio as a global production site, as a space for thought and a place of imagination – and at the same time as a place where the romantic image of the artist's space is ironically refracted and questioned. The studio also appears as a space of longing, the meaning of which is changing: How do globalization and digitization affect the production of artistic work in the studio? How do the ideas of the studio shape the self-image of artists to this day? Who works in the studio today – and who only dreams of it?