On the way, I had seen a flyer from a museum of contemporary art at Wolfsburg. That wasn't on my route, but wasn't that far from Helmstedt, where I had arrived on Wednesday. 32 km by bike, however, I did not see fit, as the return ride would probably be too hard, after a meandering museum visit.
So I went with the bus. I found 11€ one way quite expensive, but it was nice not to have to pedal to watch the landscape glide by. The buses were comfortable and ran punctually.
As soon as I got off the bus, I saw the four towers of the VW factory. Wolfsburg motor city, everything here is all about VW.
It is a modern city which also has something to offer architecturally, including a building by Zara Hadid, the Iranian architect of the Port House in Antwerp. On Wikipedia, I read that the city and the factory had only been founded by the Nazis in 1938 . No cars were produced during the war, but heavy war equipment mainly by forced labourers. No fresh past....
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
After the chilly border crossing at Marienborn which I visited yesterday was the art museum a fresh relief. The exhibition "Worlds in motion, 30 years of the Art Museum" included big names of contemporary and 20th century artists such as Bruce Nauman, Jan Dibbets and even our Luc Tuymans (2 works) and Panamarenko were there. Without any censorship, the artists give criticism of key aspects of the Western world And what all that skews. Or they just create an alternative world.
An exhibition by Dominican-American artist ran on the upper floor Firelei Báez (*1981). Multi-layered works of colourful, often strange, unrecognisable anthropomorphic figures on a background of old maps or plans of buildings or industrial plants.
16 September: Opening the door at Diamondway Buddhist Centre in Tallinn The centre's meditation sessions are open
