LowTech Instruments Museum

Munich not only had a new museum!

Also in 2015, a store gallery in Gärtnerplatzviertel in Munich will be transformed for several months into the LowTech Instruments Museum with kinetic art machines by Charly-Ann Cobdak.

Several smaller and larger kinetic machines transform the exhibition spaces into a kind of wonder chamber, reminiscent of cabinets or panoptics from previous centuries.

Charly-Ann Cobdak, Munich-born artist with American passport, has been designing and building kinetic art machines since 2009.

Parts of the machines come from flea markets, ebay, antique shops, junkyards, basements and warehouses. Lovingly and passionately, Charly-Ann Cobdak installs them into moving machines with squealing drives spinning wheels, flashing lights, moving figures, sounds and music.

They attract the observers, who can set the ironic, funny, subtle machines themselves in motion. This is done via motion detectors, foot switches or crank drives.

Already at the first contact with the machines, Gerhard Grabsdorf, the curator and initiator of the exhibition, thought that these should necessarily be made accessible to a broad public in a museum. Since a permanent and permanent establishment of a museum would overwhelm the temporal, financial and personal capacities of all involved, the plan to create a temporary (LowTech Instruments) museum came to life. This plan is now to be implemented in the summer of this year for 13 weeks in a central location, between Isartor and Gärtnerplatz.

During the lifetime of the LowTech Instruments Museum, Munich, in the area of ​​kinetic art, will be joining cities such as Brussels and Paris and presenting art of the quality of Jean Tinguely or Franz Gsellmann.

»The machines take words in the famosest manner à la Karl Valentin at the word and let visions, imaginations and playful sentences be haptic Phrases, phrases, word games are implemented in a multi-racial, fantastic panopticon. This speaks of Cobdak 's unlimited curiosity, her linguistic affinity and her gifted - witty engineering - puzzling competence, which enables her to transpose words taken metaphorically into matter. " (Kirsten Bauerdorf, M.A. Art History)

In their machines Cobdak processed partly literary quotes. With the machine "Citation Considerations Taking into Account the Space-Time Continuum", she takes on the story of "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Caroll. With the "Tchaikovsky Machine" she takes up her own childhood memories of her first record "The Nutcracker" by Tchaikovsky. "Speed ​​Dating in the Orient" and "Psychogram of a Marriage" deal with the interpersonal processes and changes in a relationship over time from becoming acquainted to everyday life.

In their machines Cobdak processed partly literary quotes. With the machine "Citation Considerations Taking into Account the Space-Time Continuum", she takes on the story of "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Caroll. With the "Tchaikovsky Machine" she takes up her own childhood memories of her first record "The Nutcracker" by Tchaikovsky. "Speed ​​Dating in the Orient" and "Psychogram of a Marriage" deal with the interpersonal processes and changes in a relationship over time from becoming acquainted to everyday life.

The machines appeal to children, adolescents and adults. They playfully ask the children and adolescents to engage with them and the stories behind them. For adults, there are many opportunities to gather new impressions and bring memories to life again. One of the important elements here is that the machines have to be actively set in motion by the observers themselves in order to make the stories that the machines tell - always humorous - tangible.

Opening hours from 16.10.2015

Opening hours: Sat. 15.00 - 20.00

Evening openings: 1 x per month with guided tours - The dates will be published on the Museum's homepage in a timely manner.

Guided tours after registration