Patrick Blümel

Futur 21
 https://futur21.de/

Patrick Blümel works as an art historian at the interface of digital and analog visual worlds and, as curator at the Max Ernst Museum Brühl of the LVR, has addressed both historical and current trends in the thematic field of Surrealism in numerous exhibitions. He studied art history at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn.
He is currently working as a curator in the cooperative project FUTUR 21 – kunst industrie kultur of the Landschaftsverbände Rheinland (LVR) and Westfalen-Lippe (LWL). The four-week festival of media art in March 2022 encourages people to think about the future of work, sustainability and the climate crisis, the influence of digitalization, and the limits of growth and consumption.

Selected publications

Patrick Blümel, “Reale und irreale Landschaften bei Max Ernst“, in: Entdeckungsfahrten zu Max Ernst. Die Sammlung Peter Schamoni, Ausst.-Kat. Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Ostfildern 2013, S. 44-59.

Patrick Blümel, “Die erotisch-verhüllte Frau im fotografischen Werk von Man Ray“, in: Man Ray – Fotograf im Paris der Surrealisten, Ausst.-Kat. Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Brühl 2013, S.46-57.

Patrick Blümel, „Der See Bethesda – Frühe Kombinatorik bei Max Ernst“, in: Seine Augen trinken alles – Max Ernst und die Zeit um den Ersten Weltkrieg, Ausst.-Kat. Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Brühl 2014, S. 54-65.

Patrick Blümel, „Von Menschen und Monstern – Joan Mirós plastisches Werk der 1960er- und 1970er Jahre“, in: Miró – Welt der Monster, Ausst.-Kat. Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Köln 2017, S. 158-191.

Patrick Blümel, „Die fantastische Reise des Mœbius‘“, in: Mœbius, Ausst.-Kat. Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Brühl 2019 S. 214-237.

Social Profiles

All Sessions by Patrick Blümel

  • 1. Nov. 17, 2021: 11th Clash Of Realities (Part III)

    Summits: Immersive Gaming x Cultural Heritage & Media Education

  • 12:20  - 12:40
    How can digital art promote new narratives for our society? How can digital art make our increasingly complex world comprehensible? What roles can digital artists play in the formation of a future society? What potential does participation have on the way to the future? FUTUR 21 – art industry culture encourages people to think about the future of work, sustainability and the climate crisis, the impact of digitalization, and the limits of growth and consumption. At 16 industrial museums in North Rhine-Westphalia, the cradle of industrial culture in Germany, digital artworks, light installations, immersive games and spatial interventions will be created from November 2021 to March 2022. FUTUR 21 combines theory and research with artistic practice with a special focus on digital art and narratives. The project brings together the future of society with the past of former industrial sites. Where once workers stood behind the looms, visitors interact with creative artificial intelligence. Where paper was once made from wood, artistic visions of a resource-conserving future are emerging. Between November 2021 and March 2022, 32 international and local media artists, designers, and game developers will transform the industrial museums into temporary laboratories of the future. 16 temporary and 16 permanent art works take a visionary, utopian, or critical look at the future. At each of the 16 industrial museums of the LVR and LWL, FUTUR 21 will addresses the pressing questions of today and tomorrow.

  • 13:00  - 13:30




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