The structure of the grid is indispensable in modern and contemporary art discourses. It can be found in concrete-constructive to conceptual confrontations. The grid has a political effect, it stretches across maps and city plans, it divides our world and power. The grid is a system of order and disorder. The grid offers arrangement and structuring of information and data, at the same time its voids offer space for projections. Especially in times of digitalization, globalization, and climate change, and the territorial wars that are burgeoning as a result, the grid takes on a new significance.
The treatment of the phenomenon of the grid in art and the diverse artistic explorations of it have prompted artist-curator Roman Lang and Galerie Gisela Clement to jointly develop a mobile non-profit exhibition project. Twenty positions will travel around the world in an art transport box specially developed for the project. The box serves as a unifying format that highlights the individual approaches and makes them accessible across cultures.
