Petition richtet sich an: LWL-Museum of Fine Arts and Culture Münster, Landscape Association Westfalen-Lippe, City of Münster, Sculpture Projects 2017

The Initiative for Public Art Münster calls for greater transparency in the times of digitization, globalization and new economies, the themes of "Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017". In the face of the rude marketing overlap of the LWL (Landschaftsverband-Westfalen-Lippe), the artist's work »Silver Frequency«, newly recognized by the internationally renowned lighting artist Otto Piene (ZERO Group), was launched in 2014 on the outer wall of the LWL Museum of Art and Culture " in Munster.

In the middle of Otto Piene's redesigned work, the LWL logo now shines with flawless letters in meter-sized letters. The conversion of the work of art to an "LWL advertising system" as well as to "art as a trademark" is difficult to accept. Therefore, the initiative would like to establish the public and open up an art discourse in order to bring more transparency and clarification into these intolerable events on the museum facade.

This is all the more true since the sculpture projects of Münster 2017 of the LWL have as their theme »Digitization, Globalization and New Economies« and are to examine the change of »art and the public« in Münster. In an openly and professionally conducted struggle with the »LWL-façade«, which was openly and professionally conducted in a sculptural, emancipative manner, there was the chance that the public would be transparent, participative and cosmopolitan.

The Initiative for Art and the Public Münster therefore calls for:

• the Landschaftsverband-Westfalen-Lippe (LWL), in addition to its scientific commissions for antiquity, dialect, literature, geography and folklore, as well as a contemporary art commission. To examine the LWL marketing overlap on art as well as the topic of »Changing of museal and curatorial tasks in the sign of digitization, globalization and new economies«, as well as an expert consultation of the LWL Culture Committee.

• the LWL Museum for Art and Culture, during the »Sculpture Projects 2017«, the International Symposium on the subject of »LWL-Logo and Silver Frequency«, which has already been announced several times by Director Dr. Hermann Arnhold.

• LWL and "sculpture projects" to release the "Piene" location at the LWL Museum of Art and Culture for necessary participatory processes, discourses and artistic ideas from the local and international public. Suggestions, concepts and criticism should be collected, discussed and documented during the sculpture projects.