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	Frankfurter Kunstverein Exhibitions Deutsche Börse Residency Program Invited Artists and Curators Membership Events Café im Kunstverein Calendar About us Visitor information Contact Press Publications Editions Partners and promoters Archive →Exhibitions →Events →Programs Imprint © Copyright 2006, Frankfurter Kunstverein		17.03.2010 „Le Grand Magasin“ Talk with Andreas Wegner (Artist & Founder of the „Le Grand Magasin“ Project, Berlin) and Hans-Gerd Nottenbohm (innova eG, Federal Assosiation for Collective Ideas Support, Dortmund), Moderation: Dr. Bernd Wagner 7 p.m. Art is overwhelmingly successful in serving business goals - one can see pieces of art at the priority positions in department stores, advertisments, design props or even architecture. The artist Andreas Wegner will highlight the main ideas of his project "Le Grand Magasin" (where invert consume principles were acquired into suitable art goals) during the talk at the Frankfurter Kunstverein. ANDREAS WEGNER, „Le Grand Magasin", 2009 Installationview Frankfurter Kunstverein 2009, Foto: Norbert Miguletz, 2009, © Frankfurter Kunstverein Courtesy the artist and several cooperatives From September 2008 to the end of 2009 the european-wide project „Le Grand Magasin" was on display in Berlin, offering products created by the cooperatively functioning companies. The main ideas of the project were also presented at the art space of the Frankfurter Kunstverein during the exhibition „Notions of the Artist" (November 11, 2009 - January 17, 2010) and later „The Inner Life of Things". The overal results of the project „Le Grand Magasin" were presented to the general public during three exhibitions in Hungary and Czech Republic as well as at the Kongress in Germany. „The meanings of alternative economic product models broadens during the social transformation crises. An unambiguous and clear conceptual definition of forms of alternative economy - an anti-economy within the capitalistic system of products - is therefore difficult, because these forms have passed diverse transformation processes since their genesis. This tendency is expressed through the, so-called, Oppenheimer's transformation principle, according to which the alternative manufactureres/ producers, if subjected to the rules of market economy, are not able to sustain their original goals during any extended period of time, so that they equalize more and more their competitive." (Andreas Wegner) Huge amount of the, so-called, alternative economic product models are wildly presented in Europe: from the cooperatively functioning companies and self-governing organisations to the intercultural gardens and free sources and softwares. Some experts are sure that due to the recent financial and economical crisis the conflict between self-determined employees and the missing of working perspectives among the self-governing economy might gain speed. Others think that the results of the crisis will  mostly focus on the so called „poverty" economy and certain citizen groups.   The panel discussion with Andreas Wegner and Hans-Gerd Nottebohm centered between the aspects of pure art and political and economical problems, will focus on the perspectives of producers' cooperative society and alternative business models and try to answer the question about the artistic background of  the project „Le Grand Magasin". The event is realised in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Hessen and  the Frankfurter Kunstverein. Free admission Café im Kunstverein Talk will be held in German