Artists

The projects will focus the artistic spotlight on very varied spaces and contexts. Artists invited include Munich art professor Olaf Metzel (Interpretation) who will create a work for the Main Market Square, documenta participant Olaf Nicolai with a project for the island "Insel Schütt", Frankfurter artist Silke Wagner (Interpretation) who is working on a concept for a neon work for the Königstor Tower, as well as Cologne artist Alexandra Bircken or British artist Jonathan Monk (Interpretation), both presently working out specific designs for the "Large Piece of Turf".

Some artists have already submitted very concrete suggestions. Romanian Dan Perjovschi, who recently raised a lot of interest with his "Naked Drawings" in Cologne's Museum Ludwig, will be a kind of "writer in residence" in the city during the entire exhibition period, producing little drawn "annotations" on the World Cup and football, on the City of Nuremberg and its history, and on current political affairs.

Rirkrit Tiravanija, honoured with the 2004 Hugo Boss Prize of the New York Guggenheim Museum, will create a "Cookery Book for Half Time" for the Nuremberg exhibition, containing various international recipes.

Neville Gabie has been dealing with football for years. His artist's book "Posts" shows photographs of football goal posts taken all over the world, which will now be shown on large advertising billboards in the public domain. He will contrast his international motifs with pictures taken of goal posts in Nuremberg. Uri Tzaig will create a stir with video work shown in the public domain, and Elizabeth Peyton will present one of her unique paintings from the world of football in an unusual place.

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