S AM exhibitions abroad
Once again, the S AM has been able to send its exhibitions on tour abroad, thus increasing the museum’s presence across Europe.
For example, the exhibition ‘Bengal Stream: The Vibrant Architecture Scene of Bangladesh’ was presented at Arc en Rêve - Centre d’Architecture in Bordeaux (22/11/2018 – 3/3/2019) and at the German Architecture Museum (DAM) in Frankfurt am Main (7/6 – 20/10/2019) and at Bengal Shilpalay, Quamrul Hasan Exhibition Hall, Dhaka Bangladesh (9.12. - 9.1.2023).
‘Swim City’ also went on tour and has already been shown at the AIT Architektur Salon in Munich (14/11/2019 – 12/1/2020), AIT Architektur Salon in Hamburg (31/1 – 24/4/2020), Deutschen Architekturzentrum DAZ (20/6/–2/8/2020), MAO Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana (27/8/–8/10/2020), in the context of an event of Bremer Zentrum für Baukultur (16/9/2021) and at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021 and at ArchitekturFORUM Konstanz Kreuzlingen (22.7.-25.9.2022).
The exhibition ‘Mock Up’ will be on display at Gelben Haus in Flims from 19/12/2021-18/4/2022.
Current:
KUNST MERAN im Haus der Sparkasse
Mock-Up. Architectural Models in 1:1 Scale. Photographs by David K. Ross
Opening: 14.04.2023, 7 PM (15.04 - 28.05.2023)
The opening will be accompanied by a talk with the artists David K. Ross and Andreas Kofler (S AM)
In architecture, a “mock-up” is a materially accurate demonstration model that reproduces a section of a building on a real scale and ideally as part of in its future environment. The underlying intention of these objects, realised on nearly standard-base in Switzerland, is to understand the appearance and detailed design of a project before the actual construction begins.
These models are usually photographed only in passing, but the Canadian photographer and filmmaker David K. Ross has turned them into artistic objects. In his photo project Archetypes, begun in 2016, he portrays them as heroic monuments, but also as dreamlike and uncanny pseudo-architectures.
In 2021, the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel used. Ross’s series as the starting point for an exhibition to explore the extended potential of mock-ups between what is simulation and reality. The exhibition at Kunst Meran / Merano Arte, on the other hand, focuses on the critical interface between planning and execution – one that does not exist in either the regional or national context of South Tyrol or Italy. And poses the question: why not?
Photos 1-2: © David K. Ross
Make Do With Now. New Directions in Japanese Architecture
Von 12.11.22 bis 12.3.23 zeigte das S AM die Ausstellung «Make Do With Now. New Directions in Japanese Architecture» über eine junge Generation von Architekt*innen in Japan. Wir freuen uns, dass die Ausstellung auch nach der Laufzeit in Basel weitere Resonanz findet und weisen gerne auf weitere Veranstaltungen in diesem Zusammenhang hin:
Wanderausstellung «Make Do With Now»
11.04.2025 – 05.10.2025
MENDRISIO, SCHWEIZ in Kooperation mit der Accademia di architettura, Università della Svizzera italiana
Pressekonferenz: 09.04.2025, 11 Uhr
Eröffnung: 10.04.2025, 18.30 Uhr und
Vortrag: 10.4.2025, 18.30 Uhr von Suzuko Yamada Suzuko Yamada architects, Tokyo: “Body to landscape”, gefolgt von einem Gespräch mit Yuma Shinohara, S AM
Ort: Teatro dell’architettura Mendrisio, Università della Svizzera italiana, Via Turconi 25, 6850 Mendrisio, Schweiz
Screenings «Make Do With Now»
Vorführungen des Films «Make Do With Now» (Regie: Anne Gross & Sebastian Gross, 62 min), produziert vom S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum für die gleichnamige Ausstellung:
05.10.23 + 09.10.23
Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
19.10.23
Architektur Filmtage, Erfurt, Germany
26.10.23
Archifest Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
24.11.23
Filmfest Akizuki, Akizuki, Japan
16.02.23
Reel Houses Festival, Dayton, USA
09.04.24
Filmmuseum München, Munich, Germany
10.04.24
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany
23.05.24
Architecture Film Festival Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
05.09.24
Seoul International Architecture Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea
06.11.24
Architektur Filmtage Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
27.11.24
Amsterdam Academy of Architecture, Amsterdam, Netherlands
20.03.25
Budapest Architecture Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary
Vorträge «Make Do With Now»
13.01.23
HTWG Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
14.10.23
Die Angewandte, Vienna, Austria
As part of the symposium «Circular Strategies 4»
20.11.24
Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
10.03.25
Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
Publikation «Make Do With Now»
Seit September 2023 ist die Begleitpublikation zur Ausstellung «Make Do With Now: New Directions in Japanese Architecture» (Christoph Merian Verlag, 2022) wieder in 2. Auflage verfügbar. Erhältlich im S AM-Shop oder in Buchhandlungen weltweit.