Das KloHäuschen

Thalkirchner Str. 81

Ecke Oberländerstr.

International Fruit Market, Westtor, Munich

25th July, 8pm: Opening of the market stall by Dorothea Seror and Claudia Kappenberg

26th.-29th July: WHITE MARKET Market stall with the artists

29th July, 8pm: WHITE MARKET Liquidation

WHITE MARKET moves into the KloHäuschen Munich, former public toilets situated in between Munich’s International Fruit Market, local market stalls and Turkish and Italian cafés and restaurants.

Inspired by the coming and going of the neighbouring Market Halls the White Market artists also open a market stall to restage and replay the rituals of the location.  The choreographic intervention foregrounds the procedures and formalities of trade and creates an opportunity for reflection.

In this performative intervention the artists mix and match different aspects of the market economy that is the market as location for material exchange, the market as urban ritual and Art itself as merchandise.

At the WHITE MARKET stall the performers deploy found and rejected products and turn them into a new collection of art objects. These objects are offered for sale, whereby visitors may either witness the interventions or engage in trading themselves.

Some objects remain as exhibits in The Klohäuschen and lead to further interventions.

The event is part of an initiative for the regeneration of the public toilets and the market halls by the Realitätsbüros in collaboration with the Experimental-Raum Galerie von Roit (Hoya|München) and the Galerie la (Berlin).

Supported by: Grossmarkthalle Munich and  Kulturreferat Munich

The Work was subsequently performed at VOGELFREI 9, Darmstadt Germany, July and August 2011. For further information on this event see:  "Trophäen/Trophies", Vogelfrei 9, Darmstadt, Germany

Photos: Tom Gonsior and Claudia Kappenberg