The Skulptur Biennale M\u00fcnsterland took place in 2001 in Steinfurt, where nine of the twelve original sculptures remain on a permanent basis. The Skulptur Biennale was a collaborative project between the Borken, Coesfeld, Warendorf, and Steinfurt districts of M\u00fcnsterland. Chronologically located between the 1997 and 2007 Skulptur Projekte M\u00fcnster, the biennale was designed to offer contemporary artists a rural place to work in addition to the urban spaces of the other events. Curated by Christoph Tannert, the exhibition focuses on the M\u00fcnster park landscape and all of its features. This route can still be accessed to see how the different contemporary artists interacted with the landscape of the M\u00fcnsterland.<\/p>\n
This route is best explored by bike, traveling over predominantly flat terrain. You can also take a detour into Bagno park, which was designed as a public space in the 18th century and is home to one of the oldest freestanding concert halls in Europe. You can also find more contemporary sculptures there, carefully incorporated within the stetting of the English landscape park.<\/p>\n
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The viewer suddenly seems to be in a surrealist or futurist painting, such as a work by De Chirico, for example. \r\nFor his work in the Skulptur-Biennale M\u00fcnsterland 2001, the artist sought out a location outside of the cities and towns, selecting a meadow at the edge of the woods near Hembergen. There, it takes on the appearance of a relic from a forgotten industrial culture and serves as a monument to it.\r\nWithout any actual function, the chimney becomes a vertical landmark in the otherwise flat countryside, corresponding only to the trees in the background. Jan Svenungsson's work offers an open field of interpretation. It begs for a non-functional aesthetic of art that shapes exterior spaces while evoking inner spaces of imagination.\r\n\r\nAdditional information: www.kreis-steinfurt.de\/skulptur-biennale\r\nFurther reading:\r\nCatalogue: skulptur biennale m\u00fcnsterland 2001<\/em>, Eds.: Kreis Steinfurt, the District Administrator, Christoph Tannert, Vice Versa Verlag, 2001\r\n","post_title":"The Sixth Chimney","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"der-sechste-schornstein","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-09-12 11:06:09","post_modified_gmt":"2018-09-12 09:06:09","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/der-sechste-schornstein\/","menu_order":1197,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":27319,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:24:17","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:24:17","post_content":"The Zone is a sound and light installation located in a section of forest near the Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst that was designed to represent a field of wishes. For this work, the artist traveled throughout the district of Steinfurt and asked people of different backgrounds, social statuses, and ages the fairytale question about what three wishes they would request if given the opportunity. Using this audio material, she created a sound collage of 500 wishes spoken in a soft rhythm and then incorporated modern lighting technology to create a sensory experience.\r\nThe fleeting, intangible sound and light create a poetic atmosphere, which is enhanced by the forest \u2013 a place characterized in fairy tales by the presence of the mystical, the homes of witches and sorcerers. The result is a sense of being between dream and reality, creating an awareness that wishes and ideas are also what make people. \"To become aware of one's own desires is to be on the path to fulfillment,\" the artist explained of her work.\r\n\r\nFurther reading: \t\r\nCatalogue: skulptur biennale m\u00fcnsterland 2001<\/em>, Eds.: Kreis Steinfurt, the District Administrator, Christoph Tannert, Vice Versa Verlag, 2001\r\n \tAdditional information:\r\n \tWebsite of the district of Steinfurt: www.kreis-steinfurt.de\/skulptur-biennale<\/a>\r\n \tM\u00fcnsterland sculpture guide: s370305094.online.de\/skulpturen\/skulpturen\/steinfurt_03.php<\/a>","post_title":"The Zone","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"die-zone","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-09-16 20:27:51","post_modified_gmt":"2018-09-16 18:27:51","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/die-zone\/","menu_order":1191,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":27386,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:15:18","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:15:18","post_content":"The Ems Acropolis<\/em> is a cubic structure made of cast concrete with columns around the perimeter. From a distance, it resembles the shell of a new house in the middle of a meadow. The structure is so small, that you can barely stand inside of it. Between the columns, there are six openings that provide a framed view of the surroundings on all sides.\r\nDue to its abstract form, the object stands in sharp contrast to the landscape. Rather than fitting in with the surroundings, the Ems Acropolis<\/em> incorporates architectural interpretations of antiquity. It stands on an open plane, making it less like a house and more like a temple through which the landscape becomes visible in its individuality. \r\nIn its poured concrete form, it also represents a modern ruin and in turn addresses the transition between landscape architecture's efforts to create an artfully ordered cultural landscape and the stance that nature should reclaim the landscape. The use of concrete here creates a link to industrialization, to the cities and the shells of buildings that exist today.\r\n","post_title":"Emsakropolis \/ Ems Acropolis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"emsakropolis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-09-22 17:06:11","post_modified_gmt":"2018-09-22 15:06:11","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/emsakropolis\/","menu_order":1569,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":27387,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:16:21","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:16:21","post_content":"Via Lewandowsky realized Ems Sport<\/em> for the Skulpturenbiennale M\u00fcnsterland in a large meadow near Kloster Bentlage along a hiking\/bicycle trail that leads to Rheine. The structure is crooked and the front edge is dug into the ground, as if it had fallen from the sky. What landed was a new, unknown alternative to all of the sports that are played within sight of the location, including tennis, soccer, hockey, and track and field.\r\nThese types of sports are also referenced in the materials used for the sculpture, such as the tartan track surface or the metal netting that is found in actual sports facilities. Situated on the steep banks of the Ems River, observers are free to decide what the rules would be for a sport that requires such a structure. However, the sculpture is often spontaneously used for sports activities without any rules \u2013 and not only by children. In other words: the work lives.\r\n\r\n","post_title":"Emssport","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"emssport","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-09-21 15:50:42","post_modified_gmt":"2018-09-21 13:50:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/emssport\/","menu_order":1529,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":28035,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:37:17","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:37:17","post_content":"The five Platonic solids are named after the Greek philosopher, who discusses them in detail in his work Timaios<\/em> from 5 BC. Here, Ekkehard Neumann has recreated these forms out of sheet steel. The objects are loosely grouped without pedestals along the shore of the lake in the Steinfurter Bagno.\r\n\r\nA source of fascination for scientists and artists since antiquity, these geometric forms include the tetrahedron (pyramid), hexahedron (cube), octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron, each named after its number of sides (8, 6, 8, 12, and 20 respectively). Plato integrated the solids into his philosophical system, assigning each of them to one of the elements: tetrahedron \u2013 fire; octahedron \u2013 air; icosahedron \u2013 water; hexahedron \u2013 earth; dodecahedron \u2013 \"ether,\" which is the fifth element as postulated by Aristotle.\r\n\r\nEkkehard Neumann conceived the sculpture specifically for this location, creating a link between public modern art and historical parks. The work also visually represents theoretical and practical attempts to arrange the environment according to specific parameters.\r\n\r\nThe park is an example of nature designed according to man\u2019s rules and ideas. The Platonic solids illustrate how this design is driven by the desire to understand the laws of the world and the cosmos, to classify the phenomena and, in turn, understand them. The desire for orientation in a complex environment is shared by geometry, art, philosophy, and landscape architecture, and is clearly illustrated by this sculpture.\r\n\r\nReference: http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Platonischer K\u00f6rper","post_title":"Untitled (Five Platonic Solids)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ohne-titel-fuenf-platonische-koerper","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-01-19 00:39:31","post_modified_gmt":"2019-01-18 23:39:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/ohne-titel-fuenf-platonische-koerper\/","menu_order":666,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":28192,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:24:05","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:24:05","post_content":"Otmar Sattel\u2019s work is installed on a bridge that is located on a traditionally high-traffic route between the Emsdetten districts of Sinningen and Isendorf. The Emsradweg \/ Ems bicycle path also follows this route, making it popular among tourists and locals. On weekends, cyclists, pedestrians, and canoers all pass through here. The installation interacts with this movement, which flows in opposite directions on the bridge and the river.\r\n\r\nWhen someone crosses the bridge or a canoe passes under it on the Ems, Sattle's awnings extend outward. When looking from above or below, the eye is drawn to the moving monochrome fields of color. Here, the artist plays with awnings as prefabricated industrial objects: their intended purpose is to shield the sun, making their location on the bridge seem unusual and even absurd. He also plays with the methods of color field painting that were influenced by Mondrian, transforming it into a sort of moving choreography in this work.\r\n\r\nFurther reading:\r\nCatalog: skulptur biennale m\u00fcnsterland 2001<\/em>, Publisher: Kreis Steinfurt, der Landrat, Christoph Tannert, Vice Versa Verlag, 2001","post_title":"SCHUTZ K.O.nTAKT \/ SCREEN CONTACT","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"schutz-k-o-ntakt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-01-17 00:38:52","post_modified_gmt":"2019-01-16 23:38:52","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/schutz-k-o-ntakt\/","menu_order":1199,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":28222,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:37:20","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:37:20","post_content":"Constructed out of ordinary paving stones, the sculpture Heavy Flora<\/em> is located along the edge of a central square in Steinfurt's Bagno Park. It is especially popular among children, who like to walk along the gently sloping wall, tracing the sculpture\u2019s natural forms and tapering branches.\r\n\r\nWhen seen from above, the sculpture depicts the abstract lines of a tree or a branch. However, it could just as well be another structure, such as a cellular structure seen under the microscope or part of a leaf skeleton.\r\n\r\nThis work illustrates the principle of all organic growth in its basic form. Its construction is also comparable to a living organism: the paving stones represent the individual cells, which create layers and rows to form the greater whole.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nReference: http:\/\/s370305094.online.de\/skulpturen\/skulpturen\/steinfurt_11.php\r\n\r\nFurther reading: Bagno-Skulpturen<\/em>, ed. by the Kulturstiftung der Sparkasse Steinfurt and the Kulturb\u00fcro M\u00fcnster e. V., M\u00fcnster 1996.","post_title":"Schwere Flora \/ Heavy Flora","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"schwere-flora","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-02-14 10:57:20","post_modified_gmt":"2019-02-14 09:57:20","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/schwere-flora\/","menu_order":664,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":30404,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:24:20","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:24:20","post_content":"Before designing the Paradise Garden<\/em> in Lengerich, the artist held a several week workshop in which he first intensively considered notions of paradise and garden design alongside Lengerich residents, as well as a group of patients from the psychiatric clinic at the former protestant hospital.\r\n\r\nThe garden that emerged from this process is a combination of individual designs that incorporate the participants' own visions of paradise.\r\n\r\nThe result is a natural, but symmetrically designed garden with seasonally changing plants, scents, and atmospheres, bubbling water, benches, and a panoramic view of the M\u00fcnsterland.\r\n\r\nNestled in the hills of the Teutoburg Forest, it is a tranquil and secluded place where visitors can relax, let their minds wander, and enjoy nature.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nFurther reading:\r\nCatalog: skulptur biennale m\u00fcnsterland 2001<\/em>, publisher: Kreis Steinfurt, der Landrat, Christoph Tannert, Vice Versa Verlag, 2001\r\n\r\nAdditional information: www.kreis-steinfurt.de\/skulptur-biennale<\/a>","post_title":"The Lengerich Garden Project","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-lengerich-garden-project","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-06-17 15:45:14","post_modified_gmt":"2019-06-17 13:45:14","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/the-lengerich-garden-project\/","menu_order":1189,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":30461,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:16:24","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:16:24","post_content":"This work is installed in a location where the hiking trails intersect at the edge of a large open meadow. The two parts of this sculpture are positioned along the same axis and are reminiscent of the windows found at a classical manor house. Although they were built from historical construction materials, they seem more like architectural quotations than ruins. Viewers can look out the windows, while simultaneously being outdoors. The view of the landscape is framed like a picture, lending it a new sort of focused awareness. Landscape, sculpture, and architecture enter into a synthesis here.","post_title":"Two Green Windows","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"two-green-windows","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-07-28 18:33:57","post_modified_gmt":"2019-07-28 16:33:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/two-green-windows\/","menu_order":1527,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":30514,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:24:03","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:24:03","post_content":"In her Sunken Village<\/em>, Mariele Neudecker captures the transience of human civilization in a poetic image. Two traditional tiled roofs and the top of a church tower rise just above the surface of Steinfurt Tiggelsee. The viewer is left to imagine of what is hidden beneath the water and what might have caused the village to sink.\r\n\r\nWith the depiction of an idyll preserved in fragments, the artist draws from the types of ruins that have been part of many gardens and parks since the 16th century. These ruins served to accentuate certain visual elements and create an atmospheric setting, as well as to signify the transience of all human work. An example of this can be found in the Bagno Park in Steinfurt, where the Ruineninsel (Island of Ruins) was built on site in 1805.\r\n\r\nMariele Neudecker's installation is not only a contemporary reinterpretation of this tradition \u2013 it also evokes thoughts about the relationship between reality and imagination.\r\n\r\nFurther reading:\r\nCatalog: skulptur biennale m\u00fcnsterland 2001<\/em>, Editor: Kreis Steinfurt, der Landrat, Christoph Tannert, Vice Versa Verlag, 2001.\r\n\r\nAdditional information: www.kreis-steinfurt.de<\/a>","post_title":"Versunkenes Dorf \/ Sunken Village","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"versunkenes-dorf","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-08-01 16:30:01","post_modified_gmt":"2019-08-01 14:30:01","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/versunkenes-dorf\/","menu_order":1201,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":30534,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:23:59","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:23:59","post_content":"Kendell Geers' art doesn't aim to win over the viewer by looking nice, but instead strives to present a powerful social and political sign of resistance.\r\n\r\nNot far from Kloster Gravenhorst, also a site of violent historical conflict, the South African artist erected a labyrinth of security fences and barbed wire. Despite its fortified appearance, the structure offers no real protection.\r\n\r\nAt most, it functions here as a sort of trellis, leaving all of the fences to one day be overgrown with ivy. The installation seems to suggest that all of the conflicts between opposing viewpoints \u2013 war and peace, savagery and civilization, art and nature \u2013 will only come to an end once nature has triumphed.\r\n\r\nBeyond that, however, it also asks about inside and outside, about who is seeking protection from whom, about cause and effect. The barbarians we are waiting for here are probably always the others.\r\n\r\nFurther reading:\r\nCatalog: skulptur biennale m\u00fcnsterland 2001<\/em>, Editor: Kreis Steinfurt, der Landrat, Christoph Tannert, Vice Versa Verlag, 2001\r\n\r\nAdditional information:\r\nKreis Steinfurt website: www.kreis-steinfurt.de\/skulptur-biennale<\/a>\r\nSkulpturenf\u00fchrer M\u00fcnsterland: s370305094.online.de\/skulpturen\/skulpturen\/steinfurt_04.php<\/a>","post_title":"Waiting for the Barbarians","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"waiting-for-the-barbarians","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-08-02 13:46:19","post_modified_gmt":"2019-08-02 11:46:19","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/waiting-for-the-barbarians\/","menu_order":1203,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sculpture_maps\/26872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sculpture_maps"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sculpture_maps"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"sculpture_maps_tempo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sculpture_maps_tempo?post=26872"},{"taxonomy":"sculpture_maps_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sculpture_maps_region?post=26872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}