27.10.-13.11.2022
In recent years, Matthias Lüben and artist Janusz Czech have travelled to Pforzheim's twin towns - Gernika (Spain), Győr-Moson-Sopron (Hungary), Irkutsk (Russia), Nevşehir (Turkey), Osijek (Croatia), Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (France), Częstochowa (Poland) and Vicenza (Italy) - on a voyage of discovery.
Special, significant buildings, places or squares in the twin cities were the starting point for the artistic works and the virtual tours that are shown in the exhibition. They present the cities with their regional history and cultural specialities.
The project was developed in cooperation with the City of Pforzheim's European and Town Twinning Department.
Janusz Czech, born in 1975 in Kedzierzyn (Poland), studied painting, graphics, photography and conceptual art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He has been a member of the editorial team at the philosophical business magazine "agora42" since 2011 and Artistic Director at A.K.T; in Pforzheim since 2019. In 2021, he was a fellow at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris and received a working grant from the Stiftung Kunstfonds. His installation "Anarchie-Tektur" was acquired by the Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2021.
Matthias Lüben, born in 1971 in Sondershausen in Thuringia, lived in Berlin, Heidelberg and Linz, among other places, before moving to Pforzheim in 2001. He has been involved in the production of virtual 3D tours since 2016 and is the founder of the start-up company RAUMGANG, based at EMMA - Kreativzentrum Pforzheim. Since 2020, he has also been head of the project
"Stattbad", which makes the men's swimming pool of the former Emma Jaeger pool in Pforzheim virtually usable for art projects.
