Social space as a gallery

The Platform for Unasked Art (PfUA) is a platform for interventions in social space.
It bypasses the institutional moderator by using social space as its gallery, museum, studio and living room. The platform seeks to re-appropriate social space as a meeting point. 

It is often said that public space should retrieve its role as a meeting point instead of a purely functional, transitional space between private and institutionalised spaces. Yet, the only people who use it as a living room are often seen as a problem, like loiterers or the homeless.

Through artworks placed in public space, the Platform for Unasked Art reclaims the possibilities of public space beyond the institutionalisation and seclusion that govern our lives. Placing artworks outside and hosting openings, PfUA seeks to personalise and add depth and stories to daily surroundings and engage the passer-by.

More information

www.platformforunaskedart.com

www.facebook.com/platformforunaskedart/

PARTICIPANTS

The following artists participated:

Domenique Himmelsbach de Vries
Taya Hanauer
Cecile Mullens - Wentges
Leanne Wijnsma
Benjamin Brandenburg
Maurice van Daalen
David Hanauer
Nina Janssen
Dafna Rehavia
Janina Schipper
Risja Steeghs
Simon van der Weele

PROJECT TEAM

Domenique Himmelsbach de Vries
Taya Hanauer
Cecile Wentges