A participatory art project by Manfred Webel, a German sculptor.
A project funded by the Kultursekretariat NRW Gütersloh and on tour since 2021.
The Artist - Art Campaign - Mobile Art Container - Public space - 15 cities in NRW - Current dates
Manfred Webel, a pioneer of participatory sculpture, is a father of three and married to journalist Elke Vieth. He has initiated 150 participatory art projects, has been awarded the NRW Children and Youth Culture Prize, is a cultural mentor for artists, a member of the BBK and, with the Paderborn Creatures, one of the 20 CREATIVE.SPACES in NRW.
"My sculptures are made to be touched and moved by many people. I show them in museums but also take them into the city centre because I want to infect not only people interested in art, but all people with my love of art. My art can also be touched in order to make it accessible to all the senses."
The participatory art campaign by artist Manfred Webel has visited eleven cities in NRW so far. The artist Manfred Webel launched the art tour entitled "Please touch!" on 15 May 2021 and has already inspired over 8,000 people since its launch in Monheim.
Webel travels to the tour stops with his art container. In addition to this mobile art container, the rolling studio, he also brings along Monami, his huge mobile movement sculpture that people can touch and move. It is a highlight alongside many other sculptures of movement, such as Quattroporte, Loops, Bubbles and Rotor.
Touching, moving and being liberated is the basic philosophy of Webel's art: "Please touch my sculptures! Take them in your hand, turn them, move them. Sculptures want to be liberated, to experience something. With you!" says the NRW Culture Prize winner.
The mobile art container is always part of the "Please touch!" art event. The mobile studio offers visitors a space to develop and is the nucleus for fresh ideas. Once at the location, the artist docks onto the local structures with his "Please touch!" programme: whether museum, school, district or park - and launches his participatory offerings.
"Please touch!" is an official project of the Kultursekretariat NRW Gütersloh as an association of over 80 member cities and municipalities and is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Each location has regional project partners who use this multi-day art event for their individual purposes. This means that different focal points and content are developed for each location.
The art campaign with sculptures of movement "Please touch" has been travelling through NRW since 2021.
The participatory offers and a detailed schedule are currently being prepared. As soon as everything has been finalised, it will be published here immediately. If you would also like to be informed directly, please send an email to: kunst-at-manfred-webel.de.
| 7th until 22nd September 2024 | Please touch Troisdorf The city of Troisdorf invites all citizens to get active with the sculptor Manfred Webel and his movement sculptures. The final of the art project art project ‘Please touch!’ will take place in front of Wissem Castle. At the 15th station of this participatory action for 2 weeks there will be avaried programme for all visitors. It is characterised by Manfred's movement sculptures, the large monami, various models of the bubbles family, quattroporte and loops. Together they cavort in front of the castle and invite visitors to join them. |
The art campaign with sculptures of movement "Please touch" has been travelling through NRW since 2021.
| July 2024 | Please touch Lippstadt Project partner: Gymnasium Schloss Overhagen We were guests at the Schloss Overhagen grammar school as part of the programme for the exciting project week before the holidays. Together with the school and all the citizens of the town, we created individual friendship bracelets. Whether painted or created from individual wooden moulds, the figures nestled together almost seamlessly. |
| June 2024 | Please touch Minden Simeonsplatz, Minden Project partner: LWL-Preussenmuseum Minden As a guest of the LWL-Preussenmuseum Minden, the bright red art container stood on the huge Simeonsplatz. Citizens - young and old - tried out our hands-on activities and provided plenty of ideas for the use of the former parade ground. We wish the people of Minden that their ideas will make the square lively and colourful. |
| May 2024 | Please touch Remscheid Alleestraße, Remscheid Project partner: Stadt Remscheid, Innenstadtnetzwerk Citizens were invited to actively contribute their ideas to the redesign of the city centre. Many positive suggestions were generated through dialogue and participative hands-on activities. Read more in the article in the Rheinische Post. |
| September 2023 | Please touch Paderborn Project partner: Paderborn Diocesan Museum Joyful coexistence of sculptures of movement and sacred art. The best example of this is the Monami swings in the museum with a view of angels. |
| August 2023 | Please touch Unna Project partner: District town of Unna, culture department Hands-on activities in the centre of the city and an audience discussion with author and presenter Andrea Grießmann in the Jakobihaus. |
| July 2023 | Please touch Siegen Project partner: Siegerland Museum in the Upper Castle The summer programme of the Siegerland Museum in the Upper Castle was held in the container in the middle of the city, virtually as a satellite with a 9-day programme, competition and action in the museum. |
| May 2023 | Please touch Lünen Project partner: Museum of the City of Lünen Special experiences were offered when Manfred's sculptures of movement met objects from the "Barbie" exhibition. |
| September 2022 | Please touch Marl Project partner: Skulpturen Museum Marl For the first time, there is a space with a green pathway between the sculpture museum, the mobile art container and the Martin Luther King Comprehensive School. Here, people interact with Webel's sculptures and experience what art and sculpture can express and achieve; art is created and culture is lived. |
| September 2022 | Please touch Bünde Project partner: City marketing Bünde The campaign was part of the summer programme of the city of Bünde directly in front of the town hall. |
| August 2022 | Please touch Iserlohn Project partner: Iserlohn Municipal Gallery and Children's Lobby Come and make art! This was the motto of the campaign, which took place on the green lawn in the centre of the Friedensplatz. |
| October 2021 | Please touch Bergkamen Project partner: Bergkamen cultural department, youth art school Working with whatever material you can find was on the agenda at the wasteland right in the city centre. |
| September 2021 | Please touch Gütersloh Project partner: City of Gütersloh, Department of Culture The mobile art container stood in front of the desecrated Jacobus Church in the Blankenhagen district and sent a clear signal: something is happening here again, come and help shape it! |
| August 2021 | Please touch Viersen Project partner: Städtische Galerie im Park Viersen The art campaign "Please touch!" developed new forms of sculpture of movement at its station in the Städtische Galerie im Park in Viersen, such as the walk-in wardrobe with a fashion collection to dress the sculptures of movement. |
| May 2021 | Please touch Monheim Project partner: Monheim art school The campaign started in the first corona phase. But the Monheim Art School dared! With great hygiene efforts and mutual consideration, the campaign was very successful. Monami, the first sculpture of movement in public space, was given its name here. |
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