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TinyBE: Living in a Sculpture (stylized proper spelling tinyBE • living in a sculpture) is an exhibition and event format that is intended to enable an interdisciplinary dialogue at the interface of fine art, architecture, design and science. TinyBE's inaugural exhibition took place in 2021 in the Metzlerpark of the Museum of Applied Arts in Frankfurt am Main, at Kranzplatz in Wiesbaden and at the State Museum in Darmstadt. The curator and initiator is Cornelia Saalfrank, the co-curator is Katrin Lewinsky. The exhibition is sponsored by the non-profit tinyBE gGmbH.

Concept
TinyBE is a global platform for artists on the topic of “sustainable living”. TinyBE organizes exhibitions of habitable sculptures in public spaces and offers them as “free space for discourse about meaningful life”. The artists create habitable sculptures that make the fundamental questions of our society tangible: how we want to live and what we actually need. The project will be continued in the form of a Biennale or Triennale and will also be shown in other cities and countries.

Exhibitions
The exhibition locations were the Metzlerpark at the Museum of Applied Arts in Frankfurt am Main, the Kranzplatz in Wiesbaden and the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt. The 2021 premiere of TinyBE: Living in a Sculpture included nine residential sculptures by international artists as well as three other sculptures. The specifications for the artists were to use sustainable resources and a maximum size of 30 m². The work could be viewed throughout and guided tours and temporary accommodation could be booked.

Participating artists included Mia Eve Rollow & Caleb Duarte, Onur Gökmen, Christian Jankowski, Alison Knowles, Terence Koh, My-Co-X, Laure Prouvost, Sterling Ruby, and Thomas Schütte. The artist for TinyBE Extra was Charlotte Posenenske, for TinyBE Extend it was “Vista 3.5°, 2021” consisting of Beatrice Bianchini, Robin Wenzel and Andrea Nicola Strehl under the direction of Matthias Wagner K. The TinyBE Info Box was planned by Schneider + Schumacher.

A supporting program for the exhibition included lectures, discussions and an art education program with guided tours. Around 20,000 visitors and 148 overnight stays were recorded.

Literature

 * Cornelia Saalfrank and Katrin Lewinsky (Hrsg.): tinyBE. living in a sculpture, Distanz Verlag GmbH, Berlin 2021, ISBN 978-3-95476-437-2


 * Website tinyBE
 * Ist das Kunst oder mein Bett?, Die Zeit, Nr. 29/2021