Picnic Time

The show at the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main is retracing the fascination of dining outdoors through a wide range of different periods and cultures.

Frank and Patrik Riklin, BIGNIK. Photo Daniel Ammann
Picnic Time is the first major exhibition ever devoted to the phenomenon of the picnic. The show at the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main is retracing the fascination of dining out of doors through a wide range of different periods and cultures. For instance, what is the nature of the lavish picnics during the Henley Royal Regatta in England? How do people picnic on the world’s highest mountains? How do they do it in the Middle East and during cherry-blossom season in Japan?

 

On more than a thousand square metres of exhibition space, numerous objects – including picnic utensils of widely differing forms, makes and origins – as well as installations, photographs and films bear witness to the abundant diversity of a popular custom. The show sheds light on historical and contemporary picnic rituals and objects of Switzerland, Germany, France and the Nordic countries, India, Iran, Mexico and many other countries and regions.

Barbara Klemm, Cape Town, South Africa, 1978. © Barbara Klemm
Barbara Klemm, Cape Town, South Africa, 1978. © Barbara Klemm

until 17 September 2017
Picnic Time
curated by Charlotte Trümpler with Leonie Wiegand
Museum Angewandte Kunst
Schaumainkai 17, Frankfurt am Main

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