Denkmalpflege
By Emmelines

Emmelines is presented in partnership with the MTA’s Vacant Unit Activation Program, which finds new creative uses for underused space within subway stations.

Denkmalpflege is an exhibition of Harun Farocki’s public video installation Übertragung (Transmission) at the Limmatplatz tram shelter in Zurich.

Übertragung was commissioned under the working title Denkmal as a pilot project of the Kunst Öffentlichkeit Zürich (Art Public Zurich) research program, led by Christoph Schenker, which produced public artworks in collaboration with the city of Zurich and other public and private backers from 2004 to 2012.

Accompanying the video are photographs of Limmatplatz from the Baugeschichtliches Archiv (Zurich Construction History Archive) and the Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv (Swiss Social Archives), which maintains the archive of Swiss social photographer Gertrud Volger.

About the Artists: 

Harun Farocki (1944-2014) lived and worked in Berlin. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Hamburger Bahnhof — Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Berlin; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Hessel Museum of Art, Annadale-on-Hudson, New York; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Hamburger Bahnhof — Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Berlin; M+ Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Goetz Collection, Munich; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; and ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, among others.

Gertrud Vogler (1936-2018) lived and worked in Zurich. From 1980-2003, she worked as the photo editor of the Swiss independent weekly WOZ. Over the course of her career, she produced more than 200,000 negatives documenting social movements and alternative scenes in Zurich and beyond.

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