Was bedeutet Nachhaltigkeit in Museen?

Tino Sehgal was born in London in 1976 and studied Economics and Dance in Berlin und Essen. For the last 15 years he produced his work worldwide at art biennials and prestigious museums including the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2016), the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2015), Tate Modern in London (2012) and the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2010). He has curated exhibitions for the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2011), Manchester International Festival (2013), “A Prelude to The Shed” in New York (2018) and “Welt ohne Außen” at the Gropius Bau (2018). Following his solo exhibition at the Gropius Bau in 2015 Tino Sehgal will present “This Situation” once again as part of a walk-through exhibition in “Down to Earth”. As fine art works, Sehgal’s pieces exist in space and are permanent. The animated, speaking bodies and their deceleration include the visitors in a situation while challenging the conventional relationship between object, subject and exhibition. In “This Situation” Sehgal constructs encounters between people in a cultural institution – and gives visitors the chance to enter an exchange with his performers on social themes such as economy and ecology. In this way the institution of the future will become a place of meeting and daylight will dissolve the white cube. Welcome to this situation.

Michela Rota is an Italian architect and holds a PhD in Cultural Heritage. She is involved in architectural design and advisory for sustainable museography. From 2008 to 2017, she carried out research activities at the Energy Department of Politecnico di Torino in Italy on museums and built heritage, that is about methodologies related to preventive conservation, sustainability for the built environment, access through smart technology and museum standards. Rota is a member of the ICOM (International Council of Museums) Working Group on Sustainability and Coordinator of the ICOM Regional Committee Piemonte and Valle D'Aosta. She is author of scientific publications such as her most recent book “Musei per la Sostenibilità Integrata” [2019, Museums for the integrated sustainability].

Albrecht Grüß has been working for the Berliner Festspiele for 16 years and is currently production manager of the Immersion programme series. Since 2019, he has been working as an EMAS auditor for the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH. As early as 2013, the KBB GmbH has increased its commitment in the field of environmental management and obtained EMAS certification. EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) is a demanding system for sustainable environmental management developed by the EU. Among other things, it obliges the KBB GmbH to set itself environmental goals, to work continuously on improving its own environmental balance sheet and to undergo annual internal and external audits.

Christopher Garthe holds a doctorate in engineering and works as creative director and consultant for sustainability in museums. He develops exhibitions related to sustainable topics and supports museums, science centres and adventure worlds with transdisciplinary approaches to the introduction of a sustainability management. Since 2009, Garthe has been working for studio klv, an interdisciplinary consulting firm and creative office. He is also the author of several articles and blogs and a lecturer on “Sustainability in Museums”. For Garthe, experiencing nature is an elementary inspiration and motivation to shape major transformations.