Subversive Spaces:
Surrealism + Contemporary Art
Saturday 7 February to Sunday 4 May 2009
With Kinderzimmer a major new commission
by Gregor Schneider
The Whitworth Art Gallery
The University of Manchester,
Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6ER
0161 275 7450
Conference
Friday 13 & Saturday 14 February
External Links
Opening Times
Open Monday - Saturday
10am – 5pm,
Sunday
12 – 4pm,
Admission Free
How to find us
The Whitworth
Art Gallery
Oxford Road, Manchester,
M15 6ER
0161 275 7450
Images
George Shaw, Scenes from the Passion: The Swing, 2002/3
Courtesy of the artist and Mead Gallery, University of Warwick. Purchased through the Contemporary Art Society Special Collection Scheme on behalf of the Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, with lottery funding from Arts Council England, 2003.
Opinions
The inner space man
Rachel Campbell-Johnston (The Times)
Tuesday January 27 2009
There is always something unsettling about the rooms that Gregor Schneider constructs and his latest is no exception.
Your heart should be pounding. A major new installation by the German artist Gregor Schneider opens at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester next week. Kinderzimmer will consist of a reconstruction of an abandoned nursery from a derelict village near the artist’s Rhineland home. Visitors will be invited into a completely dark space, a discombobulating, deserted blackness, while, in another room, a film of the abandoned world where this nursery once stood will be running.
