Gregor Peschko
Gregor Peschko

EINGANG / ENTRANCE
Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig
05.07.–29.07.2018

The spatial installation EINGANG / ENTRANCE at the MdbK deconstructed the museum’s appearance and visual guidance system, reappropriating it as an artistic vocabulary of forms. Located in a hall at the museum’s side entrance—temporarily opened as an additional access point for the project—the installation played with the authority of institutional architecture. An oversized banner above the portal, bearing the exhibition title EINGANG / ENTRANCE, proclaimed what appeared to be the museum’s official entrance.

Inside, familiar elements such as a counter, printed programs, benches, and a screen mimicked the actual foyer at the main entrance. Yet the doubled counter served no practical purpose as a ticket desk—it was reduced to a superficial imitation, shifting the spatial codes. Visitors and museum attendants became participants in this speculative situation.

The project fictionalized the museum’s threshold, creating an in-between space that blurred the boundaries between appearance and function. Through appropriation and a reimagined dramaturgy, the installation humorously questioned the institution’s accessibility, its public role, and its function as a gatekeeper. The materials used to construct the counter later formed the basis for the ongoing project series IDEAL Forum.

images: dotgain

EINGANG / ENTRANCE
Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig
05.07.–29.07.2018

The spatial installation EINGANG / ENTRANCE at the MdbK deconstructed the museum’s appearance and visual guidance system, reappropriating it as an artistic vocabulary of forms. Located in a hall at the museum’s side entrance—temporarily opened as an additional access point for the project—the installation played with the authority of institutional architecture. An oversized banner above the portal, bearing the exhibition title EINGANG / ENTRANCE, proclaimed what appeared to be the museum’s official entrance.

Inside, familiar elements such as a counter, printed programs, benches, and a screen mimicked the actual foyer at the main entrance. Yet the doubled counter served no practical purpose as a ticket desk—it was reduced to a superficial imitation, shifting the spatial codes. Visitors and museum attendants became participants in this speculative situation.

The project fictionalized the museum’s threshold, creating an in-between space that blurred the boundaries between appearance and function. Through appropriation and a reimagined dramaturgy, the installation humorously questioned the institution’s accessibility, its public role, and its function as a gatekeeper. The materials used to construct the counter later formed the basis for the ongoing project series IDEAL Forum.

images: dotgain