The act of walking has gained new importance as a social phenomenon in the 21st century. In addition to everyday physical locomotion or the modern moment of recreation and sensual experience, it touches on current issues of ecological, global, geopolitical as well as economic change.
With the group exhibition WALK!, the SCHIRN provides an overview of the facet of walking as a practice in contemporary art production that has been little illuminated to date. It inquires into the contemporary exploration and extensions of Walking Art, whose origins lie in Minimalism, Land Art, and the Conceptual Art of the 1960s.