Featuring works by Michael M. C. Driesch, Markus Henschler, and Juliana Paek in dialogue with the Morsbroich Museum’s collection.

A collaborative project between the Master’s program in Art Education and Cultural Management (KUK) at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and the Exhibition Design program at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences.

In the rehearsal room of the Morsbroich Museum, the City of Leverkusen’s art collection is presented from new perspectives. Here, people who do not work at the museum decide how the exhibition space will be designed. To this end, groups or individuals who work closely with art education are invited on a rotating basis. They select works from the collection and decide how they will be presented—from their own personal perspectives. The aim is to test new forms of presentation and explore which of these could be implemented throughout the entire museum.

From August 20, 2026, through January 6, 2027, an interdisciplinary group of students from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, the Peter Behrens School of Arts at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, and the Düsseldorf Art Academy will be guests in the rehearsal room. They have set themselves the goal of realizing an interdisciplinary exhibition project and strengthening collaboration between emerging artists and established cultural institutions.

The title “Desire Path” refers to the well-trodden paths that emerge when people stray from designated routes and create new connections through repeated use. As a metaphor, it points to the tension between established structures and individual agency. This idea is explored in the exhibition. Students from the Düsseldorf Art Academy—Michael M. C. Driesch, Markus Henschler, and Juliana Paek—engage in a dialogue with works by Georg Baselitz, Ralph Fleck, Jürgen Teller, and Manabu Yamanaka from the museum’s collection. In parallel, they are presenting an exhibition at the Kunstverein Leverkusen from August 20 to 30. Both exhibitions engage in a dialogue with one another and open up new perspectives on curatorial practice and institutional spaces.

Desire Path was realized by: Elisa Stellmach, Pia Koop, Elif Aydin, Gamze Can, Sabrina
Görlich, Nathalie Sofie Schulz

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