Galerie 3AP

The decentralized memorial (Path of Liberation) today commemorates the local resistance against Nazi-Germany and the liberation of the city of Düsseldorf in April 1945 via six stations in form of information steles. In the former apartment of master baker Josef Lauxtermann – today Station 1 at Fürstenwall 74 – members of the resistance group met from the beginning of the Second World War to discuss politics and plan how the city could be handed over to the Allies. This is where the „Aktion Rheinland“ was organised. (Source: Federal Agency for Civic Education, NS memorials)

The exhibition and residency project WOHNUNG LAUXTERMANN, conceived and curated by Aileen Treusch, enables artists to use the premises at Fürstenwall 74 for their work to bring this historic address back into the active life of the city. The tour begins on the first floor at the staircase and leads through office space, storage and work rooms on the upper floors of Fürstenwall 74. In addition to the residency, which was awarded to Julie Mia in spring (February-April), the fluid exhibition is now taking place for the fifth and last time this year. The exhibition can be visited by appointment.

The fluid exhibition concept focuses on the social role of art and artists and their possibility for self-efficacy and agency. It addresses very different questions of orientation, cohesion, democracy, participation and domesticity. The boundaries of different artistic design practices are wide open here. Predominantly young but also internationally active artists come together from different, not only geographical directions. What dimensions does a work need to attract attention? What does it mean to have „format“? How do both the works and the artists benefit from challenging exhibition contexts and neighbourhoods? In this historically significant location, the participating artists engage with their surroundings. The works predominantly take up figurative or architectural moments.