Streets are more than mere transit sites. They are sites of public life where people stroll, play, socialize, work, offer goods, or protest. Yet we often only notice them incidentally. Being on the street invites us to rediscover these spaces—as places of encounter, exchange, and community, but also as sites of protest, where feelings become public and social conditions, such as life on the street, become visible. How does public space influence our thinking, actions, and being—and how do we actively shape it through our presence?

The history of modernism is closely linked to the “neutral” space for art—the “white cube.” But since the 1960s, artists have consciously broken with this concept. They have left the protected institutional framework and sought the street—whether as a place for radical and poetic actions or as a source of inspiration for their works. This attitude has redefined not only the boundaries of art but also the relationship between private and public space. On the Street explores these complex relationships—between art, public space, museum practice, and life itself.

The exhibition unfolds a broad spectrum of artistic perspectives in four thematic rooms, each taking works of art by pioneers of the 1960s as its starting point.

The exhibition is accompanied by a reader containing a DIN A2 poster with a full-page image and text in German and English for each artist represented.

A production of the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, curated by Christiane Meyer-Stoll.