Fanshop of Globalization: Soccer, Space and Economy

From May 5 - July 16, 2006 Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) presents two exhibitions on the topic of football and globalisation at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund: "Glamour and Globalisation" (curated by Inke Arns, HMKV Dortmund) and "Fanshop of Globalization: Soccer, Space and Economy" (a project by Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung and raumtaktik, Berlin).

Fanshop of Globalization: Soccer, Space and Economy
May, 5 -10, 2006, container in front of PHOENIX Halle Dortmund
Opening: Thursday, May 4, 2006, 19:00
Opening Speech: Thomas Krüger, Präsident der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung; Dr. Friedrich von Borries, raumtaktik

The „Fanshop of Globalization“, a project by Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung and raumtaktik located in a 12 meter long overseas container, presents a comprehensive exhibition on the global economic system. Here, the soccer fan can get acquainted in an entertaining way with the economic mechanisms, political backgrounds and cultural contexts of soccer in the age of global economy. The five thematic chapters of the “Fanshop” are added value, migration, networking / global corporate enmeshment, cultural identity and social divide. The exhibition's central elements are soccer shirts from all over the world, newly designed and furnished with  background information on the consequences of globalization as well as visual charts of the functioning of the global system of soccer. The „Fanshop of Globalization“ will travel from Dortmund to nine other "World Cup" cities in Germany.

A project by Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung and raumtaktik