Description: Performance artist Marinka Limat’s “Kunst-Pilger-Reise” are artistic ventures into different topics per pedes utilizing the old cultural practice of pilgrimage.
Newsletter Press Contact Blog EN DE FR Kunst-Pilger-Reise 3 Kunst-Pilger-Reise 3 (KPR-3) saw Marinka Limat journeying from Kassel to Athens in 2017: her performance established a physical connection between the twin locations of “Documenta14”. Her focus was the question of the art that arises between these two centres.
Kunst-Pilger-Reise 3 was the longest and most ambitious project that Marinka Limat has undertaken in her artistic career to date. It took 163 days and covered 3000 km across nine countries. The starting point was Kassel, the home of the Documenta art exhibition, while the destination was Athens, the cradle of western culture. Throughout the entire duration of Documenta14, which in 2017 was taking place in two different locations for the first time, Marinka Limat was en route between the two, joining them to
Encounters were at the heart of Marinka Limat’s project. They provided the basis, and in such moments the artwork could emerge. This was fleeting, direct, spontaneous and unrepeatable. Being present in the moments of encounter with a wide variety of people was what constitutes Marinka Limat’s performative work. She exposed herself to the strange and unknown, and chose an open and direct setting to do so: the pilgrimage.