Anna K.E.Backdoor Fantasies05.04. - 10.08.2014
KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION Dusseldorf

Dusseldorf’s Media Harbour is the reference point for the exhibition Backdoor Fantasies. Beginning in the 1960s, urban development and new landmark architecture catapulted the old docklands into the next century. This ambitious urban renewal project represented the start of a prosperous future. Five decades later it is time to ask what remains of the urban and workplace utopias envisioned then. The exhibition takes place at KAI 10, but also leads the visitor to other spaces, both indoors and out. One of the project’s main ideas is to look behind the façades: Backdoor Fantasies focuses on the visions and repressed emotions that are swept under the carpet, as it were, during the process of planning an area like the Media Harbour. The exhibition will capture the specific atmosphere of this area, reflecting upon it in works of art and turning the abstract notion of this district into a sphere of personal experiences. Twelve international artists are represented in the show, some with new productions, others with existing works. Instead of direct site-specificity, the project relies upon surprising confrontations and research into subtle emotional qualities.