ART-WORD-ART

Nine secondary schools in the Altöttting and Traunstein school cluster of the Technical University of Munich joined forces with the DASMAXIMUM museum for the first time in 2014 for the KunstWortKunst project, which places art and creative writing at the heart of extracurricular education. Pupils in year 10 were invited to write a text inspired by a work of art freely chosen at DASMAXIMUM - without any guidelines, without the framework of the school and without any restrictions from teachers. The interdisciplinary approach of "KunstWortKunst" and the concept of the museum, which was opened as a foundation in Traunreut in 2011 by art patron Heiner Friedrich, come together here in an ideal way, as the exhibition of major works of international contemporary art, which now covers a good 4,000 square meters flooded with daylight, is not intended to focus on art-historical instruction but on the experience of art. A high-caliber jury of experts from literary studies, art, culture and the press selects the best texts from the submissions, which are honored in a small anthology and made available to interested readers. The success of the writing competition ultimately led to KunstWortKunst now being firmly established as a biennial event.