Pattern Recognition

Every Skulptur Projekte Münster is shaped and identified by three rather elusive words – “public”, “project” and “sculpture” – whose meanings alter, morph and distort at a faster pace than the ten-year cycle of the exhibition. This means that when you arrive in Münster, you instantly switch on your personal “pattern recognition” function to try to figure out what each of these terms means today. At the same time, as the curators have said,“every decade also raises issues of its own.”In 2017 this means attention is given to the changing nature of “our experiences of body, time and space in times of increasing digitalisation.” Here, curator and writer Valentinas Klimašauskas picks out five projects that demonstrate how the works make this both visible and rather difficult to grasp at the same time.