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  • Makroville

    Museum Kunstpalast

    Makroville is a collaborative project in which over 160 artists from various countries are participating and building a model city on a table about 33 feet by 33 feet (10 by 10 meters)—not a utopian city but, rather, an exhibition. The exhibitors are called the modesidents; the Ring Club initiated this project. Just as in life, but also just as in games, a city council approves construction permits. Any artist can buy land, and indeed must in order to participate. That so many artists have worked peacefully together may result from the project’s duplication of the structure of private property.

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