At the Weserburg Museum of Modern Art in Bremen, the current exhibition “Cold as Ice. Cold in Art and Society” invites visitors to illuminate the existential dimension of cold from an artistic perspective. Cold not only stands for low temperatures, but also becomes a symbol for social tendencies such as emotionlessness, lack of solidarity and a lack of empathy. International artists, including renowned names such as Kader Attia, David Hammons and Shilpa Gupta, will present large installations, photographs, video works, sculptures and performances on 1,000 square metres that reflect and critically question the increasingly frosty social climate. The exhibition also focuses on the need for warmth, social cohesion and solidarity and evokes the counter-image of change and resistance.
The exhibition is accompanied by a wide range of programmes: Regular Sunday tours with the curators provide an in-depth insight into the works, while private tours and specially developed educational formats for daycare centres, schools and youth groups are also offered — often free of charge. A special highlight is the project space, which invites visitors to “warm up” creatively once a month on Thursdays and offers printing workshops, community choirs, clothes swaps and DJ events: Here, the coldness of the exhibition becomes an impetus for encounters and social warmth, beyond fixed attributions and disciplines. The exhibition runs on level 3 of the Weserburg and is open to everyone — with free admission to the opening and for school classes.
