Hew Locke, Oscar Murillo, Iza Tarasewicz, Selma Selman and Róza El-Hassan are among the artists taking part in the 2027 edition of Skulptur Projekte Münster, an exhibition that takes place every ten years in the northern German city.
Next year’s exhibition will expand beyond the city centre to neighbourhoods in transformation, according to a statement from the organisation. The artistic directors are Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić, and Sabina Sabolović, the members of the Zagreb curatorial collective What, How & for Whom (WHW). They plan to include around 30 locations and projects in total.
“In 2027, Skulptur Projekte will engage in a particularly meaningful way with the diversity of our city,” Tilman Fuchs, the mayor of Münster, said in the statement. “By focusing on different vicinities, the exhibition makes processes of urban transformation visible and brings Skulptur Projekte into dialogue with new neighbourhoods.”
The non-central districts of the city to be incorporated into Skulptur Projekte include Kinderhaus, which originated in the 14th century as a home for the sick outside the city gates in the north of Münster. It grew rapidly in the 1970s through residential housing. Tarasewicz, a Polish artist, will develop an installation structured around seasonal cycles and agricultural processes at Gut Kinderhaus, a former farm that is today a residential and working community for people with different disabilities.
Murillo will collaborate with local crop producers and communities to create an installation centred on communal cooking and collective sharing at a former military barracks built by the Nazis and used by British armed forces from after the Second World War until 2012. Located in the south-east of the city, it currently accommodates refugees and is undergoing redevelopment as a new residential neighbourhood.
Locke’s contribution will be on view in the city centre at the Krameramtshaus, which was built in 1589 and served as the meeting place and administrative headquarters for local merchants. Selman’s installation, which draws on her own family history and explores the “cycles of globalised labour”, according to a release, will be shown at a 19th-century cemetery. El-Hassan, a Budapest-based artist, activist and lecturer who represented Hungary at the Venice Biennale in 1997, will divide her work between two locations; the Botanical Garden by the baroque palace and a residential district in the south of Münster.
Further artists invited to take part will be announced in the months leading up to the opening of Skulptur Projekte Münster on 12 June 2027, the statement said. The exhibition, which is funded by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the German government as well as a number of private sponsors, will run until 3 October 2027.
