Exhibition: A World in Flow - Movement and Impermanence in Japanese Art - Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt

Installation view: The End of the World at Federkiel Foundation Munich, 2022

Centuries-old weathered wooden sculptures, ceramics and lacquerware, Hokusai's Great Wave as an archetypal expression of beauty and mortal danger, wind as a draughtsman, tea as a means of communication: Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt presents precious collection items from the museum, complemented by selected contemporary art positions in the exhibition 'A World in Flow'. The displayed objects and exhibits describe Japan as a country that has produced a unique aesthetic language of the ephemeral. Where life can end abruptly from one moment to the next due to earthquakes, tsunamis, or man-made disasters, an art flourishes that is always conscious of the fragility and preciousness of our existence.

With works by Ueda Rikuo, Nasu Hide, Kotobuki Shiriagari, Peter Granser, and Kashiwagi Mari, surprising contemporary positions in art, tea culture, and poetry are given voice, reflecting in different ways the panta rhei attitude to life that has always characterized Japan.

Peter Granser will exhibit his teahouse installation 'The End of the World' as well as his new book "The Manchurian Crane & The End of the World," which will be published by Edition Taube in February 2025.

Peter Granser offers individual tea sessions on February 1st and 2nd, 2025. Please register directly with the museum: sabine.huth@stadt-frankfurt.de

On view from 31.01.2025 to 27.04.2025

Idea, concept, and tea sessions: Peter Granser

Design/implementation: OHA - Office Heinzelmann Ayadi

Ceramics: Mattthias Kaiser

Book: Jonas Beuchert/Antonia Albert, Edition Taube

Sound: Martin Wehl

Special thanks to: Karsten Schmitz/Federkiel Stiftung