“Homeland – now?!“ Münsterland Re-thought
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“Homeland – now?!“ Münsterland Re-thought
With top-class art and historico-cultural testimonies of the last 200 years, the exhibition, “Homeland – now?!”, casts a view at the changing sense of home of Westphalians and of Münsterlanders in particular.
“We are staying at home” – is a sentence we could read in the windows of our houses lately. What does it mean, having a home, a homeland, and developing a feeling for one’s homeland? How do Münsterlanders feel about their homeland now, 20, 50 and 200 years ago? Why is their homeland so important to them?
A critical questioning of the term ”homeland” on the basis of current artistic positions is inevitable. At the centre of the exhibition, there are views of landscapes, cities, but also group portraits, still life and artisan objects. In an exemplary manner they illuminate social and political aspects and show how a sense of home can develop, ranging from “nostalgic in retrospect” to “present-day austerity” and finally to a “forward-looking orientation”: Homeland often is and remains, defined or non-defined, a place of yearning.
The exhibition calls for leaving behind the nostalgic transient note attached to the term, but rather striving for future remodelling instead. The point is to make our homeland fit for the future and to model the Münsterland in such a way that everyone may find his/her homeland here.