Urination is an - essential - biological function that has been subjected to a great degree of social control. But keeping this level of control is for some harder than for others. For many people, disappearing public toilets is a massive problem. Older people and pregnant women don’t have the luxury of a stoic bladder. Unless you’re not male (who are able to find their “public toilets” at numerous places in the public realm) or in perfect health, it’s difficult to imagine the mental energy expended on assessing whether or not it is possible to find a toilet in the next five minutes.

As a (symbolic) response to the current lack and continual vanishing of public toilets, Kunsthalle3000 will turn a toilet inside Kunstverein Langenhagen into a free and unisex public toilet. A sign on the outside wall announces this new service of the Kunstverein and provides a place for those who need one. In the exhibition space a small sculpture entitled “A corner for relief” can be found, which can be seen as the counterpart to the new public toilet: an imprint of Langenhagen’s most popular peeing-corner – an “anti-monument” to male dominated street urination which is also the predictable outcome of a lack of public toilet infrastructure.

*Kunsthalle3000 is a project by German artist Thomas Geiger - who is a guest at the Kunstverein for one year. As an intervention within the institution, Kunsthalle3000 creates a series of situations located in the gap between institutional-, private- and public space.