The gallery invited all those willing to hang their works on its walls

In this way, the gallery wants to provide space for beginners

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Gallery Edinburgh Printmakers (Edinburgh, Great Britain) invited everyone to join the exhibition by hanging their works on its walls. The announcement comes almost a week after a museum in Munich fired an employee after he hung one of his own paintings next to works by Andy Warhol.

Edinburgh Printmakers Gallery opened 57 years ago. It is located in the premises of a former factory in the industrial district of the city of Fountainbridge, writes The Guardian.

The exhibition will have a title “Castle Mills Then and Now”: Whose Gallery Is It Really? and will open on April 18. It aims to give budding artists a space to showcase their work, while creating a “real-time interactive experience”.

“Anyone can add work and/or co-curate an exhibition, moving artwork around the space in a way that makes sense to them. We want to give people and communities the opportunity to occupy our large, light-filled, street-facing gallery space and reflect on our heritage and social role, encouraging people to rearrange and add to the exhibition as they see fit.“, says the announcement of the exhibition in Instagram galleries.

The gallery, which has previously featured works by Alasdair Gray, John Byrne, Rachel McLean and others, hosts works in a variety of genres and formats, including paintings, drawings, sculptures and performances. Visitors, representatives of the local community, schoolchildren, etc., are expected to join the project there.

The news appeared almost a week after the Museum of Modern Art Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich discovered that one of its technicians had hung his own painting alongside famous works of contemporary art. In the end, the 51-year-old technician was punished with dismissal and a ban on visiting the museum for three years.

At the time, the Pinakothek der Moderne said that they would not comment on the details of the painting, because it could allegedly “encourage impersonators.” “Mand did not receive any positive feedback from gallery visitors about this painting“, said the press secretary of the institution.

However, a person who knew about the technician’s idea noted that it was an “artistic challenge”: “The technician who hung the picture did not crave fame“.