It’s coexistence or no existence – B. Russell
Ten Years of SCHIRN MAG
The SCHIRN MAG has established itself as an important medium in the contemporary art and culture scene in the ten years since its launch. Starting with the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt’s exhibitions and themes, the spectrum of contributions to the online magazine has continued to evolve. The SCHIRN MAG is therefore now presenting itself in an entirely new design and layout.
With its permanent columns, the SCHIRN MAG provides insights into the contemporary art scene, in German and English. “Context” includes essays, features, portraits, and soundtracks about current exhibitions and themes at the Schirn. Since 2015, “Schirn Podcast” has been offering art to listen to—the first ever German podcast by an art institution. In “Interview,” artists explain their works, and experts open up new points of view. Contemporary video art and portraits of artists from the Schirn’s monthly series DOUBLE FEATURE make up a special focus of the rubric “Video Art.” Selected highlights and events of the contemporary art and culture scene as well as film and book discoveries can be found under “Schirn Tip.” In the column “069,” the Schirn introduces protagonists from Frankfurt’s creative scene and their living and working environments. Finally, “What’s Cooking” combines art and culinary delights from different perspectives.
The focus of the SCHIRN MAG’s new design format is deliberately placed on a simple graphic presentation whose optimized font size gives priority to high-quality contents and heightens readability. The homepage of the online magazine, laid out as a display window, offers readers a clear overview of the whole range of multifaceted offers and themes. Full-screen chapter markers provide readers with a clear structure and clearly distinguish text contributions, videos, and podcasts. Image areas that are alternately large and small, make for liveliness and extend an invitation to explore. The Schirn is reacting to the altered reader behavior since the last relaunch as well as to the current viewing habits of its readers. At the same time, the SCHIRN MAG’s appearance is gaining more independence from the Schirn website. The new magazine design was developed and implemented by Henne / Ordnung in close collaboration with the team of the Schirn.
Philipp Demandt, Director of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, explains: “The SCHIRN MAG is a success story and has been an integral part of our digital strategy for the last ten years. With its new design, we are placing even more focus on its contents. With the SCHIRN MAG, we are opening up space for the examination of public discourses and the exchange of views on art from different perspectives, beyond the spatial boundaries of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.”
The SCHIRN MAG provides its readers with the opportunity to receive new articles, videos, podcasts, tips, and specials directly on their mobile phones via the app Notify and the Telegram Messenger service. Additional information is available at SCHIRN MAG NEWS.
Ten Years of SCHIRN MAG
Online Magazine of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Design: Henne / Ordnung
a construct
Coexistence means existing in the same place and time, in peace and harmony. But it also means that each part depends on another. When one is breaking the construction gets weaker and falls apart, it wouldn’t work anymore. Coexistence means together. And together we build a strong unity.
That is the power of mankind.
Merge
“Merge” is the first word that came to my mind when I thought about “coexistence”.
The idea behind it is the concept that we are all connected, and that everything depends on everything else. The acceptance of all living things being interlinked would lead to the ideal coexistence – In the end, we are all “one”.
Come together
respect the room — there’s enough for everyone
respect the room — there’s enough for everyone
Storm-bred
The house survives the storm. Or is the storm still on? The piece tries to depict the mindset of today, where we have to coexist together with nature and it’s wrath for our crimes from centuries on.
Holy Sepulchre
There aren’t that many places on earth where the idea of coexistence is associated with so much contradiction like in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem: here, the Greek Orthodox, the Roman Catholic Church, the Armenian Church meet with the Syrian Orthodox Church, the Ethiopian Orthodox and the Copts – like the pictured monk, kneeling at the Stone of the Anointing. Each church comes with its own rules, its own demands, its own principles about how coexistence should be. Which can get a little messy, so much so that the monks don’t just get uncooperative but sometimes start serious brawls. Indeed, coexistence needs its space (but there’s a light that never goes out 🙂
2gether
During these apocalyptic times, we all experienced something we didn’t expect. Many of us lost their jobs. Some of us didn’t go back in their home country and stayed in another place. This could happen again. And probably will. We are stronger together. Let’s build a new world based on mutual understanding, help and tolerance, compassion, togetherness.
The big fight over coexistence
WE
Co-exist
The geometric figures represent my interpretation of the word co-exist in how the units complete and complements each other
ONE WΩRLD/ØNE PATH
My submission represents a dreamy, fuzzy vision of a cosmic gathering between two worlds, the world of the apparent light and the world of the apparent darkness, where the light is hiding the dark and the darkness is hiding a glow.
The only possible world is a world in which opposite forces work together for a common goal, following the same path towards the enlightenment.
Enlightenment means mutual respect, compassion, love, understanding, solidarity, collaboration.
We are One.
Did we really need a virus to understand that?
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coexistence
Skin Color
This is camouflage typography of Korean Type ‘살색(skin color)’. I believe skin color is just skin color, it does not give to us any supremacy or does not define someone is inferior race. I thought this idea is gone, even if it still remain somewhere, but it should not appear in front of us anymore. But this idea hiding in our mind and revive again like zombie. It is stronger than corona virus. It scared me.
our four corners
we sail together these unchartered waters
our four corners entering a singular sphere of being
are we to meet in the middle? to open the close.
this piece is discussing our coexistence on a global level and entertaining the possibilities of this, alluding to opening up something greater when we all move as one.
what we have known may have been shut, but with a close can come a great open. and that is something to be thinking about around now.
Turbulent Seas
Using poetry and a harsh satellite view of the ocean, I chose to articulate the current state of community that I have felt and observed over the past weeks.
coexist
How? Together!
Co-exist
The figures in the images represent my geometric visual interpretation of the word co-exist and how each unit complete and complement the other
everything changes, nothing perishes
omnia mutandor, nihil interit
Ovid (43 BC- 17 AD), Metamorphoses, book XV, line 165
No man is an island
Could we live without others? Are we alone if we are locked at home in the middle of a city, with other people locked just like us in the house next to ours? What if the other people is locked, but miles away from us? Are we still connected? Are we still part of the same thing?
Love from afar
Is love about contact? Could we live without contact? Can we show love from a distance?
This is an installation done in my own house during the covid-19 lockdown. Photo by Ana Matos.
Embrace change
What would we like to see us doing in the face of a new situation? What does a new world look like? Are we ready to adapt to whatever comes?
This image is a random pick from over 700 versions generated by a custom typography-altering algorithm.
Stay together
Were we made to be together? Does society work if we don’t fit with one another? What happens when a social being is left to survive alone?
This image is a handmade linocut print.