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Volkswagen ID.4 official mobility partner of SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS by Tom Sachs

September 17, 2021 by Volkswagen

Volkswagen ID.4 official mobility partner of SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS by Tom SachsAll-electric SUVs to transport Sachs and team of sculptor-astronauts during exhibit at Deichtorhallen, Hall for Contemporary Arts in Hamburg, Germany

Herndon, VA — Volkswagen's award-winning ID.4 has been selected for a new mission; to transport sculptor Tom Sachs and studio team during the fourth exhibition in Sach's Space Program series, a thirteen-year exploration of the boundaries of other worlds and human possibilities. SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS will be on display at Hamburg, Germany's Deichtorhallen from September 19, 2021 to April 10, 2022.

'The street is where we find inspiration and there is no better way to capture that than in a Volkswagen' said Cameron Batten, Chief Communications Officer for Volkswagen Group of America. 'We're proud to feature the all-electric ID.4 as the official mobility partner for American artist Tom Sachs and his studio team's latest Space Program, 'Rare Earths.'

For SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS, Sachs will transform the Deichtorhallen's Hall of Contemporary Art – and its 3,200+ square feet of gallery space into an interactive landscape of original sculptures and bricolage work. Clad in the artist's signature 'Sachs Research Laboratory' branding, a small fleet of Volkswagen ID.4 electric vehicles will transport Sachs and team throughout Hamburg to key exhibit-related events and tasks. When not in use, the fleet will frequently be stationed outside of Diechtorhallen for public observation.

On September 18, 2021, SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS will open with a 12-hour marathon activation documenting a mission to 4-Vesta, the brightest asteroid visible from Earth. Tickets to the exhibit are available at deichtorhallen.de.

The ID.4 is Volkswagen's first all-electric SUV and the brand's first global EV. Built on Volkswagen's MEB electric vehicle architecture—the modular electric drive matrix—it marries the strengths of a purpose-built EV with performance, packaging and value, features that have marked the brand for decades. The ID.4 competes in the world's largest market segment—compact SUVs—and is currently produced in Germany and China; it is slated to begin assembly in 2022 in the United States at the Chattanooga, TN plant.

About Volkswagen

Volkswagen of America, Inc. is an operating unit of Volkswagen Group of America, which is a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG. Headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, Volkswagen Group of America's operations in the United States include research and development, parts and vehicle processing, parts distribution centers, sales, marketing and service offices, financial service centers, and a state-of-the-art assembly facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Volkswagen Group is one of the world's largest producers of passenger cars and Europe's largest automaker. Volkswagen sells the Arteon, Atlas, Atlas Cross Sport, Golf, Golf GTI, ID.4, Jetta, Jetta GLI, Passat, and Tiguan vehicles through more than 600 independent U.S. dealers. Visit Volkswagen online at www.vw.com or media.vw.com to learn more.


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About Tom Sachs

Sachs' genre defying mixed media sculptures, often recreations of modern icons using everyday materials, show all of the work that goes into producing an object - a reversal of modernization's trend towards products with cleaner, simpler, and more perfect edges. Sachs' sculptures are conspicuously handmade; lovingly cobbled together from plywood, resin, steel, and ceramic. The scars and imperfections in the sculptures tell the story of how it came into being and remove it from the realm of miraculous conception. His studio team functions like a teaching hospital or cult, that worships plywood and an ethos of transparency.

Sachs' work has been included in many exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad, and is in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo. Major solo exhibitions include Nasher Sculpture Center (2017), Brooklyn Museum (2016), Noguchi Museum (2016), the Contemporary Austin (2015) Park Avenue Armory (2012), Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (2009), Fondazione Prada, Milan (2006), Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin and SITE Santa Fe (1999). Sachs lives and works in New York.

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