allmeinde commengrounds
The "Allmeinde Commongrounds" is an independent cultural initiative founded at the turn of the millennium by Gerold and Katia Schneider, which is dedicated to a special concern: the shaping of the community from the spirit of community. The name refers to the "Allme(i)nde", i.e. the common property, the physical as well as the spiritual of the knowledge communities. "Commonground(s)" is the English equivalent of this term, which is currently experiencing a great renaissance.
Bringing art, architecture, design, and theory into complicity and negotiating contemporary questions regarding the future design of the “commonground” from the tradition of Allme(i)nde in an international context: that is what it’s about.
An essential role is played by art as a medium of reflection. In the allmeinde commongrounds, art therefore finds its place, bringing new dimensions of reality into view, negotiating them aesthetically and prompting a productive questioning of the design realities of the shared living space.
To understand exhibitions as media of contemporary discourse and to engage in conceptual work for a new Allme(i)nde through aesthetic practices are therefore paths taken in the allmeinde commongrounds.
Allmeinde commongrounds was founded in 2000 by Gerold and Katia Schneider and has since been a hub for an internationally radiating transdisciplinary discourse in Lech, re-exploring the idea of community for the present.
