Goswin Schwendinger
+ 1 /Frankfurt, 2025
Group Show “+ 1 Hospitality as Artistic Practice” Stifstrasse 30, Frankfurt a. M./Germany
+1 transforms the former Mainova Hall in Frankfurt into a soace of encounter and artistic hospitality for two weeks.
From video game essays to painting, sound and video installations, and dance performances, more than 20 international artists from Frankfurt, Berlin, London, New York, Seoul, and Beijing will transform the former Mainova Hall at Stiftstraße 30 in Frankfurt into a temporary art laboratory. For two weeks, the space becomes a site of hospitality, encounter, and artistic experimentation.
Initiated by artist and curator Olga Ulmann together with Mison Schreff and Martin Winkler, and supported by Rock Capital Group, which is currently redeveloping the building, the project translates the idea of hospitality into artistic practice.
Each invited artist brings a second artist — another voice, another perspective — forming collaborative duos that span painting, sculpture, sound, performance, and digital media. Together they explore new forms of exchange, co-authorship, and transience.
The participating artists include Coby-Rae Crosbie & Inès Murer, Shanjie Dong & Kaitong Zhang, Serkan Gören & Ning Yang, Dianne Hebbert & Ponnapa Prakkamakul, Mai-Li Helweg & Jen Wong, Joe + His Brothers, Kendall Glover & Goswin Schwendinger, Yun Kima & Mahmoud Ismail, Martin Winkler & Party of 22, Mison Schreff & Lisa Gareis, and Olga Ulmann & François Schwamborn.
Across these collaborations — from immersive sound and sculpture to performative gestures and mixed-media environments — hospitality, openness, and sensitivity to space form the connective tissue of this temporary collective experiment.
From video game essays to painting, sound and video installations, and dance performances, more than 20 international artists from Frankfurt, Berlin, London, New York, Seoul, and Beijing will transform the former Mainova Hall at Stiftstraße 30 in Frankfurt into a temporary art laboratory. For two weeks, the space becomes a site of hospitality, encounter, and artistic experimentation.
Initiated by artist and curator Olga Ulmann together with Mison Schreff and Martin Winkler, and supported by Rock Capital Group, which is currently redeveloping the building, the project translates the idea of hospitality into artistic practice.
Each invited artist brings a second artist — another voice, another perspective — forming collaborative duos that span painting, sculpture, sound, performance, and digital media. Together they explore new forms of exchange, co-authorship, and transience.
The participating artists include Coby-Rae Crosbie & Inès Murer, Shanjie Dong & Kaitong Zhang, Serkan Gören & Ning Yang, Dianne Hebbert & Ponnapa Prakkamakul, Mai-Li Helweg & Jen Wong, Joe + His Brothers, Kendall Glover & Goswin Schwendinger, Yun Kima & Mahmoud Ismail, Martin Winkler & Party of 22, Mison Schreff & Lisa Gareis, and Olga Ulmann & François Schwamborn.
Across these collaborations — from immersive sound and sculpture to performative gestures and mixed-media environments — hospitality, openness, and sensitivity to space form the connective tissue of this temporary collective experiment.
Kendall Glover & Goswin Schwendinger
The Planet Mercury Sings Like a Crystal Goblet / The Listening Body
The duo presents a collaborative work merging sculpture and sound. Glover’s sculpture, The Planet Mercury Sings Like a Crystal Goblet, engages directly with Schwendinger’s sound performance The Listening Body, performed on a large symphonic gong. The resonant vibrations of Schwendinger’s sonic environment animate Glover’s form, allowing the sculpture to respond physically and conceptually to sound. Together, their practices intertwine — sculpture and resonance becoming one sensorial field that opens deeper layers of perception and meaning.
