Models appeal to the power of the imagination – what would and could something be or look like? But models also serve for re-construction. Reality can be staged and imagined on a small scale. The artists in this exhibition examine in models the models of architecture and urban planning that constituted modernism in the East and West during the fifties and sixties. The exhibition goes into the visions and utopias, as well as the failures of these models. At the same time the artists handle the material of modernism as still having contemporary potential for the discussion around urban planning and visions of life, and the future of our cities in how they treat history. All the artists handle the possibilities of the model in different ways.
The exhibition is being held as part of the Heimat Modernism project, a joint initiative by various Leipzig institutions and groups, supported by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
