Opening

Tuesday, 19 November 2024, 6:30 pm

Opening String Figures / Fadenspiele

Museum Tinguely cordially invites you to the opening of the new exhibition String Figures / Fadenspiele from 6:30 pm onwards. 
Free admission.


Begrüssung / Welcome 
Roland Wetzel, Director of Museum Tinguely
Andres Pardey, co-curator of the exhibition and Vice-Director of Museum Tinguely
Mario Schulze & Sarine Waltenspül, curators of the exhibition

Followed by an apéro  

Free admission to the opening, no registration needed. The opening speeches will be translated into sign language.


String Figures / Fadenspiele
20 November 2024 - 9 March 2025

String Figures / Fadenspiele

Stretched between eight fingers and two thumbs, sometimes between teeth and toes, loops of string make shapes. String figures can do many things: they tell stories, they pass the time, they make the unsayable showable, they connect people. As one of humanity’s oldest cultural practices, they have inspired artists, performers, ethnologists, and theorists. String figures have been studied as an aesthetic practice, collected as artifacts, and considered as a non-Western way of thinking.


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