Last but not least: Oh plastic bag!
Ubiquitous and international, disposable yet indestructible—the plastic bag epitomizes our global society. And now it’s making its way into the museum.
Whether cult or garbage, loved or frowned upon, it divides minds, polarizes and reflects our consumer behaviour. It reinforces status and identity, disrupts ecology, is collected lovingly or with environmental awareness, tells cultural history and is a current theme in art and design: the exhibition "Oh plastic bag!" opened at the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur on Saturday, June 2. For the first time in this interdisciplinary form, the exhibition shows over thirty international positions from contemporary art and design and at the same time tells selected cultural-historical, aesthetic and political plastic bag stories with collections from Germany and Switzerland. It is curated by Ida-Marie Corell and Susanna Kumschick.
