MMP: Hinrich Sachs

Anna Gili, working in Milan, and one of the few women in the international design world, is known not only for glass vases and the “Tonda” arm chair used in an Italian talkshow, but also for the remarkable organising of design exhibitions and her very personal approach to design, and her attitudes towards life. Hinrich Sachs presents the Italian designer from various perspectives, ranging from a specially edited audio interview to a selection of her objects and a special surprise. Biographical aspects, reflections about the city and food and about the notion of success are also developed in the portrait.

Hinrich Sachs (born in 1962 in Osnabrück, lives in Hamburg) arranges socially and intellectually challenging situations which include an audience. These situations take place both inside and outside of art institutions. When in 1994 he happened to discover a collection of African objects in the Museum of Natural History in Venice, he invited Omar Top Ndga’e, a Senegalese street vendor to the museum to comment on the collection and talk about the various objects in Wolof, his native language.

To spread information about his project, Hinrich Sachs borrows from the world of entertainment: he hangs up posters and puts out flyers. Before the exhibition Do All Oceans Have Walls? at Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst in Bremen in the summer of 1998, his poster on “Taking risks” could be found all over the town. A mountain climber, a business woman, a heart surgeon and others participated in a public discussion of what taking risks means in today’s society. In his work for Moderna Museet Projekt Hinrich Sachs will be making a “live-portrait” of the Italian designer Anna Gili, in the form of an interview and an installation at Citysalongen Centralstationen Stockholm.

Curator: Maria Lind