Skulptur Projekte Münster Adds 13 Commissions for Its 2027 Edition
Skulptur Projekte Münster has announced 13 more artist commissions for its next edition, according to ArtNews. A commission is a work made for a specific place, so each piece will be built for a site in or around the German city.
The show is a sculpture exhibition that takes place only once every ten years in Münster, in western Germany. It has run since 1977, and the 2027 edition marks its 50th anniversary. The sixth edition opens on 12 June 2027, according to e-flux, and runs until 3 October, according to the exhibition's website.
The new names include Ali Cherri, Kapwani Kiwanga, Nolan Oswald Dennis and Kosen Ohtsubo. Cherri will make several large sculptures for the garden of the Officers' Casino in Gremmendorf, a district of Münster. Dennis's commission will turn the Berg Fidel neighbourhood into an observatory, a place for watching the stars, with the layout of the streets mapped onto the sky.
Earlier in the year, the organisers named five artists in their first announcement, including Hew Locke and Oscar Murillo, Artnet News reported on 30 June. Those names were part of the first list of artists and locations, Artforum reported the same day.
The artistic direction has been handed to What, How & for Whom, known as WHW, a Zagreb-based curatorial collective. Its three members are Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović. Their names carry a particular weight this year. The 2027 edition is the first to be organised since the death of Kasper König, one of the show's two founders, in 2024. The other founder, Klaus Bußmann, started the project with him.
The exhibition is run by the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, a museum in Münster, and it is backed by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, a regional authority, and the City of Münster. Those backers are named on the official site, which also says the show is built around the poetic, philosophical and connecting power of art.
For visitors, the practical point is simple. The works are spread across the city rather than gathered in one building, so people walk, cycle or take the bus from one piece to the next. The summer dates give a long season to plan that route.
