with Christiane Meyer-Stoll

The exhibition spotlights how artists since the 1960s have explored public space, questioning and appropriating it and opening up new spaces for meaning.

Streets are more than mere places of transit. They are scenes of everyday public life, where people stroll, play, come into contact with each other, work, sell goods or protest. Often though, we only notice them in passing. On the Street invites visitors to rediscover these spaces – as places of encounter, interaction and community, but also as scenes of protest, where people make their feelings publicly known and where social circumstances – for example life on the street – become visible. How does public space influence our thinking, actions and being – and how do we actively shape it through our presence?

The history of modernism is intimately linked to the "neutral" space of art – the "white cube". Especially since the 1960s, however, artists have been consciously breaking away from this concept. Abandoning the protected institutional setting, they take to the street – be it as a site for radical and poetic actions or as a source of inspiration for their works. Not only redrawing the boundaries of art, this stance has also redefined the relationship between private and public space. On the Street takes a closer look at these diverse relationships – between art, public space, museum practice and life.

The artworks on display, in four themed spaces, exemplify the complex treatment of their topics. Each space begins with artworks by pioneers of the 1960s.

The exhibition is accompanied by a reader containing a DIN-A2 poster with a full-page image and text in German and English for each artist represented.

A production of Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, curated by Christiane Meyer-Stoll.



Exhibiting artists

Majd Abdel Hamid
Francis Alÿs
Ovidiu Anton
Joseph Beuys
Stanley Brouwn
André Cadere
Lottie Child
Damiano Curschellas and Wim De Pauw
Guy Debord
Sari Dienes
Tomislav Gotovac
Liesbet Hermans
Anna Jermolaewa
Corita Kent
Jiří Kovanda
Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Klara Lidén
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
Martina Morger
Rivane Neuenschwander
Adrian Piper
William Pope.L
Lotty Rosenfeld
Salon Liz (Anna Hilti/Stefanie Thöny/Anita Zumbühl)
Agnès Varda
Steina and Woody Vasulka