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Dear friends of the Skulpturenmuseum Marl,
dear guests,
currently on view in the Skulpturenmuseum Marl: THERE ARE NO MORE COCKCHAFER!
From now on until 18th February 2024, you can visit the group exhibition THERE ARE NO MORE COCKCHAFER in the temporary building of the Skulpturenmuseum at Georg-Herwegh-Straße 63-67. Based on the song of the same name by Reinhard Mey, the exhibition by nine students from the Cologne Academy of Media Arts addresses how utopian modernization and urbanization projects in Marl and around the world have fallen out of time.
We look forward to you!
Your museum team
Free public tours
Free, public tours about art in the public space in the city-center of Marl continue to take place every Sunday at 11:30 a.m. The meeting point is the work Non Violence by Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd at Creiler Platz.
Thematic tours of the changing exhibition at the museum and in the Marl-Hüls district also take place at our temporary location every Sunday at 3.30 p.m. The meeting point for this is the temporary museum at Georg-Herwegh-Straße 63-67.
Prior registration on 02365 992257 or sculptenmuseummarl@gmail.com is required for the Sunday tour in the city center.
Projekte
The project Marschall 66
Transparent, with lots of glass for views in and out of the building, accessible and elegant: Marschall 66 was to be integrated as a new cultural center and with its conception as a "third place" in the center of Marl. A meeting place with a special quality - art institution and educational institution at the same time - for everyone in the city and of national importance. You can read about the latest media reports on the planned Marschall 66, in which the Skulpturenmuseum will also find its new home, here.
Audiowalk through the city
Where are Les Fleurs du mal from? How do ATMs at Marler Stern sound? Why is the melon column in the parking lot? What is the history of the bull in Hüls? What is the tree doing in the dungeon?
Are you interested? Simply scan the QR code on the work panels around the city or go to https://skulpturenmarl.de/ - off you go!
Sculpture in Marl
The Marl city centre is home to an unusual density of high-class works of art. Many of the residents of Marl have grown up with the sculptures, which have been a constant presence in the city since the early 1960s, long before the Skulpturenmuseum was founded in 1982. Some of the works were even purchased before the Rathaus was built from 1960 through 1967. A whole series of sculptures came to Marl as a result of the legendary ‘Kunst und Skulptur’ exhibitions in 1970 and 1972. The open-air presentation was revolutionary for the time, and when they concluded, the works were purchased by the city. This group also includes ‘Naturmaschine’, by Brigitte und Martin Matschinsky-Denninghoff (1969), certainly one of the most popular sculptural works in the city. Generations of children have climbed around on the work. Passing by and seeing children play on it today reminds many residents of Marl of their own childhood.