Lawrence Weiner


__ +__ PUT WHERESOEVER, 2007

subway stop Dom/Hbf, access via main station, Mon–Sun 0:00 am – 12:00 pm

Lawrence Weiner (*1942) is considered to be one of the most important conceptual artists of today. Language and text are his forms of expression, and he uses them to create works that exist beyond their material manifestations, regarding the mental concept of the work as being equal to its transformation into the object-state. In Weiner’s logo-like design for “Models for Tomorrow: Cologne,” two white rectangles represent a spatial vacuum of no specified size, which can be placed “wheresoever.” According to this concept, the Kunsthalle is attached to no particular space, but exists instead wherever the art is on display: the art defines the institution. Weiner also gives his artistic design 
the flexibility he prescribes for 
the Kunsthalle. The artist has not 
determined the exact execution, materials, or size of his work, 
but rather, these things are to be 
dictated by the situation into which his proposal will be integrated.