tinyBE is an innovative exhibition and event format that facilitates an interdisciplinary dialogue at the interface of visual arts, architecture, design and science. From 26 June to 26 September, 2021, tinyBE will bring together for the first time nine temporary habitable sculptures by international artists in the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main metropolitan area with locations at Metzlerpark in Frankfurt as well as Darmstadt and Wiesbaden.

The exhibits offer visionary, utopian, and sometimes even dystopian ideas on new forms of living and working, while the temporary habitability of the sculptures provides a new way of looking at art and life. Anyone can try out these artistic concepts and stay there at night.
 

The tinyMONDAYS, an event series of accompanying the exhibition create an intellectual space for a cross-generational dialogue on meaningful living and visions for the future and promotes interdisciplinary discussions related to the sustainability of alternative living forms and spaces. The events provide a forum for leading speakers from the fields of culture, science and business. 

With the tinyMONDAYS, tinyBE has set itself the goal of creating an interactive and inspiring discussion space about possible living models or ways of living in the future on the basis of the artistic concepts.

The exhibition series tinyBE’s art mediation program conveys the content of the sculptures being presented – including questions surrounding the interface between art, architecture, and design, as well as themes such as sustainability, ecological building, trends in minimalism etc. The program also creates a common area that can be used to negotiate visions of the future, ideas for sustainable living, or the concept of “public space”. In the digital and free of charge podcast series tinyTALKS, interlocutors from our partner museums discuss and debate greenery in the city, the location of the Metzlerpark, public space, or the exciting dialogue between art and architecture.

Offerings feature various mediation formats for adults, with emphasis on a diverse range of topics in which themed-, dialogue-, or overview tours communicate the exhibition’s ideas. A free tinyQUIZ invites younger visitors to explore the exhibition independently and, like the family tours or workshops for children, encourages participants to ask questions about the conditions under which they will live and work in the future. Cooperation with school classes should make it possible for the exhibition tinyBE to give children and youth an opportunity to reflect upon the spaces in which they (want) to live and encourage them to openly question established space- and living concepts.

A lively, public group discussion will take place on the platform Telegram (t.me/tinybeofficial) and will go beyond this first exhibition to play a role in future realizations from tinyBE.