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PRESSTEXTS
VARIOUS OTHERS 2019
September 12 – October 13
Opening weekend September 12-16CONTENT Barbara Gross Galerie p.1 Museum Brandhorst p.2 Galerie Christine Mayer p.3 Deborah Schamoni p.4 Espace Louis Vuitton p.5 Sammlung Goetz p.6 Haus der Kunst p.8 Jahn und Jahn p.11 JO VAN DE LOO p.12 Galerie Klüser p.15 Kunstraum München p.16 Kunstverein München p.17 Lenbachhaus München p.18 Loggia p.20 Lothringer13_Florida p.21 Nir Altman p.23 Pinakothek der Moderne p.25 Ruine München p.27 Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle p.30 Galerie Sabine Knust p.31 SPERLING p.33 Museum Villa Stuck p.34 Ludwig Beck – Kaufhaus der Sinne p.36 Karl und Faber p.37 Magic Island – performance at Blitz p.41
Name participant: Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
Partner: Hollybush Gardens, London
Address: Theresienstrasse 56, 80333 Munich
Press Contact: Anna Geuder / Tel. + 49 (0)89 296277 / contact@barbaragross.de
Exhibition title: Andrea Büttner
Artist: Andrea Büttner
Short vita: Andrea Büttner (*born 1972, Stuttgart, Germany) lives and works in
London and Berlin.
Exhibition dates: Sept 14 - Nov 01, 2019 (Opening and artist talk: Sept 13, 6 pm)
Website: www.barbaragross.de
Website (partner): www.hollybushgardens.co.uk
For Various Others 2019, the Barbara Gross Galerie is collaborating with Hollybush
Gardens and concurrently featuring an exhibition of works by Andrea Büttner with the
London gallery. The show focuses on two groups of large-format graphics.
Beggars is a series of woodcuts depicting symbolically reduced, veiled figures in postures
of supplication. With this motif, which refers back to Ernst Barlach, Büttner articulates the
interplay between poverty and shame, giving and receiving, hiding and display. The
gesture of outstretched hands is one that remains understandable across time and
cultures.
By contrast, in the Phone Etchings Büttner shows the individual traces made by her finger
on the display of her smartphone while searching in the internet. Recalling abstract
paintings, the prints illuminate how our “movements” in virtual space are ultimately linked
back to the body. For the Munich exhibition, Büttner is presenting the Phone Etchings for
the first time on a tapestry.
1Name participant: Museum Brandhorst
Address: Theresienstraße 35a, 80333 München
Press Contact: Dr. Petra Umlauf, Head of Communication, +49 89 23805 1321,
presse@museum-brandhorst.de
Exhibition title: Forever Young—10 Years Museum Brandhorst
Curator: Patrizia Dander
Exhibition dates: May 24, 2019 - April 26, 2020
Sept 14, 2019, 7 pm: Panel discussion “Various Other Models”
Website: https://www.museum-brandhorst.de/en/
Since it opened in May 2009, the Brandhorst Collection has grown dramatically—from 700
to more than 1,200 artworks. The museum’s tenth birthday is the occasion for the first
large-scale exhibition drawn entirely from this expanded collection. With some 250 works
by 46 artists, “Forever Young—10 Years Museum Brandhorst” traces an arc ranging from
the 1960s to the present day. Alongside renowned and popular highlights from the
collection, a particular focus is placed on acquisitions from recent years–including major
works by Charline von Heyl, Louise Lawler, Amy Sillman, Seth Price, Wolfgang Tillmans,
Arthur Jafa, Alexandra Bircken, and Monika Baer, among others–many of which have
never been shown in Munich. In addition, two solo presentations of works by Jacqueline
Humphries and Albert Oehlen inaugurate a new exhibition series, entitled “Spot On,”
highlighting outstanding and recently acquired bodies of work by individual artists in the
collection. Subsequent exhibitions in the series will focus on R.H. Quaytman, Michael
Krebber, and Ed Ruscha.
“Various Other Models”:
Panel discussion on hybrid institutional models with Diana Campbell Betancourt (Samdani
Art Foundation/Dhaka Art Summit), Mareike Dittmer (Art Stations Foundation CH/Muzeum
Susch), and Tessa Praun (MAGASIN III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art).
2Name participant: Galerie Christine Mayer
Partner: Goldie’s Gallery, New York, USA
Address: Liebigstr. 39, 80538 München
Press Contact: Galerie Christine Mayer, +49 (0)89 – 24 24 38 32,
info@galeriechristinemayer.de
Exhibition title: Goldie’s Gallery, organized by Trevor Shimizu
Artists: André Butzer, Antoine Catala, Andy Hope 1930, Rafael Delacruz, Ken
Kagami, Tan Kagami, Marc Matchak, Quintessa Matranga, Mieko
Meguro, Kitty Cat Meow Meow, Chris Milic, Monique Mouton, Eric
Palgon, Asha Schechter, Trevor Shimizu
Exhibition dates: Sept 13 - Oct 10, 2019
Website: galeriechristinemayer.de
Website (partner): goldiesgallery.tumblr.com
On the occasion of Various Others 2019, Galerie Christine Mayer has invited Goldie’s
Gallery from New York, an artist-run space named after artist Trevor Shimizu’s daughter
Goldie.
The first Goldie’s Gallery exhibition (2016) was an installation of two paintings and an open
book propped against the wall, surrounding Goldie’s playmat. The playmat was situated in
a small corner between a couch and closet, illuminated by a small nightlight. At three
months of age, Goldie’s movement was limited to laying on her back and stomach before
learning to crawl. Several exhibitions revolved around this playmat until she outgrew it and
moved to a bouncing chair. Each installation is determined by Goldie’s development,
furniture and unused space. Recent exhibitions have had a focus on painting and
sculpture, installed on a neutral wall above a book shelf in Goldie’s bedroom.
This group show is our first since September 2018 and the first outside of the apartment.
Continuing our focus on painting and sculpture, this installation brings together many of the
artists previously exhibited and artists represented by Galerie Christine Mayer. Although
they’re a cross-generational group with opposing lifestyles, all share a generous spirit and
an active pursuit of new forms and ideas.
Artists exhibiting include André Butzer, Antoine Catala, Andy Hope 1930, Rafael Delacruz,
Ken Kagami, Tan Kagami, Marc Matchak, Quintessa Matranga, Mieko Meguro, Kitty Cat
Meow Meow, Chris Milic, Monique Mouton, Eric Palgon, Asha Schechter and Trevor
Shimizu.
3Name participant: Deborah Schamoni
Partner: MX Gallery, New York, USA
Address: Mauerkircherstr. 186, 81925 München
Press Contact: +49 89 80043097, bureau@deborahschamoni.com
Exhibition title: KAYA (Kerstin Brätsch & Debo Eiilers), Paul Gondry
Artists: Kerstin Brätsch, Debo Eiilers, Paul Gondry
Exhibition dates: Sept 14 - Oct 19, 2019 (Opening: Sept 13, 2019, 7-9 pm)
Website: www.deborahschamoni.com
Website (partner): www.mxgallery.com
Deborah Schamoni is a contemporary art gallery based in Munich, Germany, founded in
March 2013.
Since its beginning the gallery has presented works of upcoming international artists and
followed in their presentation a decidedly curatorial approach. In their works most of the
represented artists scrutinize the new challenges we face in society today as a result of the
impact of technology and digital communication.
MX Gallery is an exhibition and performance space established in 2015 by Rafael Amadeo
Foster, focusing on contemporary and conceptual art and located in the Chinatown
neighborhood of Manhattan.
KAYA is Kerstin Brätsch and Debo Eilers. Both artists consider their own practices –
painting and sculpture – the subject matter and base material of a conceptual and
multidisciplinary work. KAYA is interested in continual processes of displacement, variation
and reproduction through appropriations of digital imaging.
Paul Gondry is a New York based artist from Paris. Gondry will show a group of new larger
scaled paintings, produced for this occasion.
4Name participant: Espace Louis Vuitton München
Address: Maximilianstraße 2a, 80539 Munich
Press Contact: Isabella Alt / 089 55 89 38 / isabella.alt@louisvuitton.com
Exhibition title: Amar Kanwar. Exile. Selected Works from the Collection
Artists: Amar Kanwar
Short vita: Amar Kanwar (born in 1964) is an artist and filmmaker who lives and
works in New Delhi, India.
Exhibition dates: April 24 – Sept 15, 2019
Opening hours: Mon - Fri 12-7 pm, Sat 10 am – 7 pm
Website: https://de.louisvuitton.com/deu-de/kunst/espaces-louis-
vuitton#munchen
Amar Kanwar’s work is a constant quest to understand the troubled times we live in and to
research the diversity of narrative structures used on the Indian subcontinent. The results
of this practice are disturbingly contemplative works – poetic documentaries – which
examine nationalism, politics, violence, and social performance through video and sound
installations. Kanwar’s films are complex contemporary narratives that connect intimate
personal spheres of existence to larger social political processes. Henningsvaer (2006)
exemplifies this – a filmic interpretation of separation and exile. Mixing historical footage,
personal testimony and lyrical cinematography, Kanwar creates a multi-layered film
installation connecting intimate personal histories with the wider politics of power and
justice. A Love Story (2010) is a poetic documentary set on the fringe of an expanding
Indian city, addressing conditions of conflict through the combination of poetic sensibility
and political consciousness. The Representative of Kanwar’s complete body of work, these
works operate at the interface between art, documentation and activism.
Amar Kanwar: Born in 1964, Amar Kanwar is an artist and filmmaker who lives and works
in New Delhi, India. His oeuvre, deeply marked by the history of his country, shows
multiple influences ranging from 15th and 16th century Indian poetry to the works of
Russian director Andrei Tarkovski. Personal experience carries an immense weight in
Kanwar’s films. During the 1947 partition of India, both his parents were forced to flee
Punjab, a region divided between India and Pakistan. In 1984 Kanwar was a history
student at Delhi University when the assassination of the Indian Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi occurred, leading to a wave of violence where thousands of people were killed.
A few months later there was a gas explosion in a Bhopal factory which killed over 2000
people. These horrific and poignant events that Kanwar and his family experienced have
since become sources of reflection throughout his oeuvre – a form of commitment to civic
causes through expression.
5Name participant: Sammlung Goetz
Partner: Museion, Bolzano, IT and Neue Sammlung, Munich, DE
Address: Oberföhringer Str. 103, 81925 Munich
Press Contact: presse@sammlung-goetz.de / +49 (0)89 959396944
Exhibition title: Tutto. Perspecitves in Italian Art
Artists: Carla Accardi, Vincenzo Agnetti, Giovanni Anselmo, Nanni Balestrini,
Gianfranco Baruchello, Alighiero Boetti, Agostino Bonalumi, Luciano
Caruso, Enrico Castellani, Giuseppe Chiari, Giorgio Ciam, Dadamaino,
Giuseppe Desiato, Luciano Fabro, Lucio Fontana Luigi Ghirri, Emilio
Isgr6, Marcello Jori, Ketty La Rocca, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Piero
Manzoni, Elio Mariani, Plinio Martelli, Stelio Maria Martini, Fabio Mauri,
Maurizio Nannucci, Ugo Nespolo, Germano Olivotto, Giulio Paolini,
Claudio Parmiggiani, Giuseppe Penone, Achille Perilli, Gianni Pettena,
Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mimmo Rotella, Salvatore Scarpitta, Paolo
Scheggi, Mario Schifano, Franco Vaccari, Emilio Villa and Michele
Zaza.
Exhibition dates: Sept 19, 2019 – Feb 29, 2020
Website: www.sammlung-goetz.de
Website (partner): http://www.museion.it / https://dnstdm.de
The exhibition, a cooperation between the Sammlung Goetz in Munich and the Museion in
Bolzano, brings together a wide selection of more than 120 works of Italian art created
after 1950. In a dialogue, outstanding works of painting and photography from both
collections illuminate significant currents in Italian art that emerged in the artistic renewal of
the post- war period.
Tutto, the title of the exhibition, is borrowed from the eponymous work from 1986 by the
artist Alighiero Boetti. It is an iconic piece from the artist’s last embroidery series, in which
Boetti united all the principles of his artistic practice. The exhibition spans the period from
the 19508 to the 1980s, from Lucio Fontana’s cosmic concept of the image and the
associated triumph of the two-dimensional canvas, as exemplified in his Concetto spaziale
from 1954, to Boetti’s conceptual examination of the relationship between the whole and
the fragmentary in his Turto series. Based on works of painting and photography, the
exhibition provides insight into various artistic approaches of the period that combine
concepts of an opening up, expanding and moving beyond traditional panel painting. The
positions presented in the show range from the canvas experiments of Enrico Castellani,
Agostino Bonalumis, Dadamainos and Paolo Scheggis to Piero Manzoni’s exploration of
materials. Other focal points include the relationship between image and text and visual
poetry in experimental works on paper, as well as conceptual photography of the 1960s
and 19708.
6The exhibition is supplemented by an extensive selection of documentary material from the
archives of the participating artists. The multitude of different photographs, posters,
invitations, work notes and objects result in a multifaceted overall picture.
The unique feature of the exhibition, which makes no claim to completeness, lies in the
uniting of two perspectives - on the one hand, the ‘native’ perspective on Italian art
provided by the Museion in Bolzano and, on the other hand, a northern Alpine view as
seen through the Sammlung Goetz in Munich. The institutions also look back on quite
different histories. While the Museion was founded in Bolzano - on the border of the
Mediterranean and northern cultural realm - as amuseum of Central European art, the
Sammlung Goetz owes its collection to Ingvild Goetz’s passion for collecting art, which
was guided by her personal interests. Already in her gallery Art in Progress, founded in
1972, Ms. Goetz frequently showed works by Italian artists, including Giulio Paolini and
Mario Schifano, both of whom are also represented in the exhibition Turio. When Ingvild
Goetz gave up her gallery work in 1984 to concentrate on collecting art, she was in part
guided by her passionate interest in Arte Povera. In recent years, she has expanded the
collection’s stock of Italian art through her acquisition of conceptual works from the 1960s
and 1970s, by artists such as Carla Accardi and Dadamaino (Eduarda Maino), who
developed artistically innovative strategies with their experimental approaches.
A modified version of the exhibition was on view between October 2018 and March 2019
at the Museion in Bolzano. At the presentation in Munich, a third partner, the Neue
Sammlung, was gained for the international cooperation project. The transgressing of
boundaries in Italian art of the post-war period manifests itself not only in artistic concepts,
but also in design. The exhibition in the Sammlung Goetz is complemented by objects of
Murano glass and loans of new Italian design, while works of painting in the rooms of the
Pinakothek der Moderne enter into a dialogue with other design objects.
Curated by Ingvild Goetz, Leo Lencsés, Karsten Löckemann, Letizia Ragaglia, Elena Re,
as well as Angelika Nollert, Xenia Riemann-Tyroller and Josef Straßer for the field of
design.
In cooperation with the Museion in Bolzano and the Neue Sammlung in Munich.
Under the auspices of S. E. Luigi Mattiolo, Ambassador of the Italian Republic in Germany.
7Name participant: Haus der Kunst
Address: Prinzregentenstraße 1, 80538 Munich
Press Contact: Elena Heitsch / +49 (0) 89 21127 115 / heitsch@hausderkunst.de
Exhibition title: Miriam Cahn: I As Human
Curator: Dr. Jana Baumann, Senior Curator, Haus der Kunst
Artist: Miriam Cahn
Short vita: Miriam Cahn was born in 1949 in Basel and studied at the School of
Applied Arts in Basel. In 1981 Cahn canceled her participation in
documenta 7. A few years later, in 1983, her first large solo-exhibition
Das Klassische Lieben, takes place at Kunsthalle Basel. Several
international solo and group exhibitions follow, such as her
participation in the 41st Venice Biennial 1984, and most recently
documenta 14, 2017.
Exhibition dates: July 12 – Oct 27, 2019
Opening hours: Mon. – Sun., 10 am – 8 pm
Website: https://hausderkunst.de/en/exhibitions/miriam-cahn-ich-als-
mensch?locale=en
With more than 200 works from all periods, Haus der Kunst is honoring Miriam Cahn’s
artistic career, which has spanned more than five decades. Her work provokes a
discussion about new images of the body and human beings today through painting. Even
in her early work, Cahn (born 1949 in Basel) explored the female body as a vehicle of
social significance, as well as its involvement in the network of power structures. In the
1970s the reduction of women to their physical being was addressed in art forms such as
performance or video; the body itself was also employed as an artistic material and
instrument. At the time, Cahn was already translating these ideas and practices into
radically extended forms of painting.
In her pictorial worlds, Cahn pushes for the abolishment of social norms and counters the
traditional representation of female and gender-specific roles; her images nevertheless
seek to include physical experiences that fundamentally elude a visual representation.
Particularly in her later oil paintings, the artist finds new pictorial strategies and the
destruction of identity beyond binary gender discourses.
Exhibition title: Markus Lüpertz: Über die Kunst zum Bild
Curator: Dr. Pamela Kort, freelance curator
Artist: Markus Lüpertz
Short vita: Markus Lüpertz was born in 1941 in Reichenberg and studied at the
School of Applied Arts in Krefeld. Lüpertz started teaching at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe from 1976 to 1987 and became
director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf in 1988, where he
8remained until 2009. Lüpertz participates in many solo and group
exhibitions such as the documenta 7 in Kassel in 1982 and was
honored with retrospective exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Centro
de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Kunstmuseum Bonn and Musée d’Art
Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
Exhibition dates: Sept 13, 2019 – Jan 26, 2020
Opening hours: Mon. – Sun., 10 am – 8 pm
Website: https://hausderkunst.de/en/exhibitions/markus-luepertz-die-zone-der-
malerei?locale=en
Markus Lüpertz is one of the most internationally acclaimed if controversial post-1945
German artists. Nonetheless, little attention has been paid to the underlying principles of
his approach to image-making. The exhibition Markus Lüpertz: The Zone of Painting at
Haus der Kunst opts for the first possibility: it begins by zooming in on the appearance of
Lüpertz’s early paintings (1963-1975) in particular – meaning their serial imagery,
monumentality, fragmentary forms, collage-like technique, unconventional perspectives
and frequent horizontal format – to reveal just how much this work was informed by a
cinematic manner of looking at the world. Lüpertz said as much about the period in which
his art first emerged, paintings that set the tone for almost all of the work that would come
after them. According to Lüpertz, “It was a time [the Sixties] that had a lot to do with
cinema. I was fascinated with the temporal succession of images in a film in the form of
thousands of pictures. That I paint images sometimes three or ten times using almost the
same form … articulates a temporal sequence, a staccato rhythm, something modern [for
me].” Far from giving up that approach to looking at the world, Lüpertz has continued up
until today to do paintings that build upon its possibilities.
Exhibition title: At Night. Between Dream and Reality - Sammlung Goetz at Haus der
Kunst
Curator: Dr. Cornelia Gockel, Curator Media Art, Sammlung Goetz
Artists: Christoph Brech, Olaf Breuning, Janet Cardiff / George Bures Miller,
Thomas Demand, Stan Douglas, Ed van der Elsken, Teresa Hubbard /
Alexander Birchler, Jochen Kuhn, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Hans Op de
Beeck, Clement Page, Paul Pfeiffer and Andro Wekua
Exhibition dates: July 12, 2019 – Jan 06, 2020
Opening hours: Thu. - Sun., 10 am – 8 pm
Website: https://hausderkunst.de/en/exhibitions/at-night-encounters-between-
dream-and-reality?locale=en
The night has a magical quality. It is the time when people come to rest, when they retire
to their homes to sleep. Yet the night is also populated by the restless, the sleepwalkers,
the night owls and criminals, many of whom are searching for something – perhaps
themselves – because many things seem clearer at night. In 14 stations, the exhibition
takes visitors on a journey through the night, that time between dreams and reality. On
display are films, videos, installations and photographs from the Sammlung Goetz that
9reflect different facets of a nighttime foray. The tour through the galleries spans an arc
from moonrise to sunrise.
Exhibition title: Archive Gallery 2019: Archives in Residence – Southeast Asia
Performance Collection
Curators: Eva Bentcheva, Annie Jael Kwan and Damian Lentini, with Sabine
Brantl
Artists: Amy Lee Sanford (Cambodia / USA), Svay Sareth (Cambodia), Lee
Wen (Singapore)
Exhibition dates: June 28 – Sept 29, 2019
Opening hours: Mon. – Sun., 10 am – 8 pm
Website: https://hausderkunst.de/en/exhibitions/southeast-asia-performance-
collection
Conceived as part of the series ‘Archives in Residence’ in Haus der Kunst’s Archive
Gallery, the exhibition Southeast Asia Performance Collection presents photographs,
videos and archival materials from the pioneering ‘Southeast Asia Performance Collection’,
an expansive research project and digital archive compiled by an international team of
researchers and curators in the UK and Asia between 2015 and 2017. This archive
currently contains documentation of performance-based works such as live art, urban and
social interventions, by over fifty artists from across Southeast Asia and its diasporas. The
exhibition presents a selection of these materials for the first time in Germany, and
explores the relationship between performativity and digital exchanges, networks and
virtual preservation across Southeast Asia.
10Name participant: Jahn und Jahn
Partner: Galerie Conradi, Hamburg
Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin
Address: Baaderstr. 56 C, 80649 Munich
Press Contact: Dr. Nadine Seligmann: nadine@jahnundjahn.com
Exhibition title: Computer und Papier
Artists: Thomas Baldischwyler, Soyon Jung, Albert Oehlen, Laura Owens,
Avery Singer, Felix Thiele
Exhibition dates: Sept 14 – Oct 12, 2019
Opening hours: Tue - Fri 10 am - 6 pm | Sat 11 am - 2 pm and by arrangement
Website: https://www.jahnundjahn.com/
Website (partner): https://www.galerie-conradi.de/hamburg.php
https://k-t-z.com
The exhibition explores the interaction of digital media and the traditional medium of paper.
Rather than focusing on technical advancements, the show reflects on how working with
an analog art form has been inspired by technology and vice versa. To what extent has the
economy of digitalization entered artistic practice, and in what way do works on paper
benefit from digital tools? The immediate access to both allows various approaches to this
complex topic, as the works in the show reveal.
11Name participant: Galerie JO VAN DE LOO, Munich
Partner: Produzentengalerie Hamburg
Address: Theresienstrasse 48, 80333 Munich
Press Contact: Noémie Stegmüller / Tel. + 49 (0)17622264837 /
noemie@galerie-jovandeloo.com
Exhibition title: Monika Michalko and Lorenz Strassl in cooperation with
Produzentengalerie Hamburg
Artists: Monika Michalko, Lorenz Strassl
Exhibition dates: Sept 13 – Oct 26, 2019
Opening hours: Wed. and Fri., 12 am – 6 pm, Thurs., 12 am – 8 pm,
Sat. 12 am – 3 pm and by appointment
Website: www.galerie-jovandeloo.com
Website (partner): www.produzentengalerie.com
In May, 2011, Jo van de Loo founded his gallery across from the Brandhorst Museum and
the Pinakothek der Moderne in the center of Munich’s Museum Quarter. The program
features young, emerging national and international artists working in the fields of painting,
photography and installation.
For this year’s edition of Various Others, JO VAN DE LOO is hosting Produzentengalerie,
Hamburg. Founded in 1973 and considered one of the leading galleries for contemporary
art in Germany since the 1980s, Produzentengalerie Hamburg is well-known for its
innovative and cutting-edge exhibition program and for discovering new aesthetic
positions.
This collaborative exhibition is showcasing the work of Monika Michalko. Colorful, surreal
paintings and site-specific installations define her artistic work. Inspired by numerous
travels around the globe, Michalko brings memories to life in the form of dream
landscapes, abstract apparatuses and fantastic urban scenes.
In this context, JO VAN DE LOO will also present installations and sculptures by Lorenz
Strassl. By recombining accumulated found and everyday objects, the artist creates
expressive and ingenious works full of irony.
12Monika Michalko (*1982, Falkenau, Czech Republic) lives and works in Berlin.
2003 – 2009 Studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (College of Fine Arts),
Hamburg
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2019 Jetzt! Junge Malerei in Deutschland, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Museum
Wiesbaden, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
VARIOUS OTHERS, Galerie Jo van de Loo, Munich
2018 VEYLON, Galerie Maïa Muller, Paris
2017 Eine ganz schöne Sucherei, Stadtscheune Otterndorf by griffelkunst
Vereinigung Hamburg, Otterndorf, Germany
2016 Bleiben will ich, wo ich nie gewesen bin, Kunstverein Jesteburg, Germany
New Positions, Art Cologne, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, DE
2015 Nur nicht mit beiden Beinen auf der Erde stehen, Galerie im Marstall,
Ahrensburg, Germany
2014 Produzentengalerie Hamburg
2013 Spirolina, Kunstverein Uelzen, Germany
2012 Monika Michalko, Namalovala, Kunsthaus Hamburg
2011 Keiner sieht alles, Produzentengalerie Hamburg
2009 Sileni Lestra, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg
Lorenz Strassl (* 1970, Ingolstadt) based in Munich.
1992 – 1996 Studied at the Fachhochschule (Universityof Applied Sciences), Augsburg
(Diploma, 2006)
1999 – 2004 Studied at Academy of Fine Arts Munich (Class of Günther Förg)
2005 Diploma
Exhibitions (selected)
2019 Le Pong Le Ping, Galerie Jo van de Loo, Munich
2018 Lorenz Straßl, Galerie Jo van de Loo, Munich (solo)
2016/2017 No Place like Home, Sammlung Goetz, Haus der Kunst, Munich
2016 Lorenz Strassl, Galerie Jo van de Loo, Munich (solo)
2015 piep, Städtischer Kunstraum Kunstarkaden, Munich
2014 Kunstraum Jahresgaben, Kunstraum, Verein für aktuelle Kunst und Kritik,
Munich
Lorenz Strassl, Galerie Jo van de Loo, Munich
LePingLePong, Galerie Jo van de Loo, Munich
2013 justforanightandaday, Auswärtsspiel der Galerie Jo van de Loo, Munich
Lorenz Strassl, Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich
132012 Jahresgaben 2012, Kunstraum München, Munich
Lorenz Strassl / Skulpturenpark, Prince of Wales, Projektraum Munich
Im Raum des Betrachters. Skulptur der Gegenwart. Werke aus der
Sammlung Moderne Kunst, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
2011 außigrasn, Galerie van de Loo Projekte in Art Babel, Munich
Lorenz Strassl, Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich
Lorenz Strassl & Frank Stürmer, Kunstverein Bonn, Bonn
2010 6. Körber Foto Award, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
10 Jahre Klasse Förg, WhiteBox e.V., Munich
Seiler zeigt im Puerto Giesing KOKOLORES, Galerie Seiler, Munich
2009 Robert Crotla, Lorenz Strassl, Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich
Fifty Fifty – Kunst im Dialog mit den 50er Jahren, Wien Museum
Karlsplatz, Vienna
Crotla presents, Städtische Kunsthalle Lothringer 13, Munich
Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis 08, Galerie der Künstler, Munich
14Name participant: Galerie Klüser, Munich
Partner: Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York
Address: Galerie Klüser / Georgenstrasse 15, 80799 Munich
Galerie Klüser 2 / Türkenstrasse 23, 80799 Munich
Press Contact: Judith Koller / Tel. + 49 (0)89 3840810 / presse@galerieklueser.com
Exhibition title: Il Mondo Animale
Artists: Stephan Balkenhol, Joseph Beuys, James Brown, Jan Fabre, Gregor
Hildebrandt, Victor Hugo, Alex Katz, Ute Klophaus, Jannis Kounellis,
Robert Longo, Olaf Metzel, Lori Nix, Mimmo Paladino, Julian
Rosefeldt, Cindy Sherman, Volker Tannert, Ernesto Tatafiore, Boyd
Webb, William Wegman
Exhibition dates: Sept 14 – Oct 12, 2019 (Opening Sept 13, 2019)
Opening hours: Galerie Klüser / Tues. – Fri., 11 am – 6 pm, Sat. 11 am – 2 pm
Galerie Klüser 2 / Tues. – Fri., 2 – 6 pm, Sat. 11 am – 2 pm
Website: www.galerieklueser.de
Website (partner): www.speronewestwater.com
Following last year’s exhibition Il Mondo Botanico, Galerie Klüser is now dedicating a
comprehensive show to the animal world: Il Mondo Animale. In cooperation with the New
York gallery Sperone Westwater, Galerie Klüser is presenting an ensemble of most
diverse artistic perspectives on the real as well as the mythical fauna.
Both galleries are linked by their early collaboration with representatives of the European
transavantgarde and their more than 40 years of commitment to contemporary art.
Galerie Klüser 2 shows photographic animal portrayals including works by William
Wegman, who is particularly known for staging his Weimeraner dogs in the style of human
portrait photography. Sperone Westwater and Galerie Klüser are now presenting the
artist’s works for the first time in Munich.
Drawn, painted and sculpted art works of the past five decades from the gallery and the
Klüser collection can be explored at Galerie Klüser 1 – with the exception of a somewhat
older dinosaur egg. Domesticated and wild animals are protagonists of various kinds and
appear in figurative and abstract, idealistic and material form.
An entire room is dedicated to Julian Rosefeldt’s ‘La parola è sempre l’avanguardia
dell’azione’ (2018; ‘The word is always the avant-garde of action’), in which the artist
translates the political symbolism of the horse derived from art history into the current
situation in Italy. Four riderless horses gallop through Rome, on their saddlecloths excerpts
of the Italian constitution.
Il Mondo Animale opens the view to the artistic involvement with the animal world, the
constant actuality of the subject and the diverse manifestations of the animal motif in
contemporary art.
15Name participant: Kunstraum München
Address: Holzstraße 10, 80469 München
Press Contact: Nina Holm / Tel. + 49 (0)89 54379900 / holm@kunstraum-
muenchen.de
Exhibition title: Sun Mu – Look at Us, curated by Jae-Hyun Yoo and Alexander Steig
Artist: Sun Mu
Exhibition dates: Sept 14 - Oct 20, 2019 (Opening Sept 13, 7 pm)
Opening hours: Wed. – Sun., 2-7 pm
Website: www.kunstraum-muenchen.de
Kunstraum München presents exhibitions of international and regional artists. The
volunteer board is responsible for the conception and implementation of the program.
Sun Mu was trained as a propaganda painter in North Korea and, following his escape,
has been living in Seoul, South Korea. His paintings draw on the propaganda images of
his former homeland but at the same time break down their ideological messages and
topics. His tableaus also address corruption, the deficit of democracy and the abuse of
power in his new home country. At first glance, the images seem like a pop-art version of
the propaganda posters of the North Korean Workers’ Party but in his native country these
artworks are capital crimes.
Sun Mu (born 1972 in North Korea), trained as a propaganda painter in the army.
Art school in the North of North Korea
2007 BFA Hong-ik University, Seoul, Korea
2009 MFA Hong-ik University, Seoul, Korea
To ensure the safety of his relatives, he neither talks about his biography nor shows his
face.
Solo shows (selection):
2019 UPSIDE-DOWN PROPAGANDA. The Art of North Korean Defector Sun Mu,
Wende Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2018 bangabseubnida / nice to meet you, Maehyangri Studio, Seoul, Korea
2018 Two hearts / zwei Herzen, Parkhaus im Malkastenpark, Düsseldorf, Germany
2016 (If that were what happiness is), Gallery Loop, Seoul, Korea
2014 (red. white. blue.), Trunk Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2014 (red. white.blue.), Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
2013 What are you doing? Gallery dam, Seoul, Korea
2012 ALL THAT IS BANNED IS DESIRED, World Conference on Artistic Freedom of
Expression, Oslo, Norway
2012 Who am I?, Gallery idm, Busan, Korea
16Name participant: Kunstverein München
Address: Galeriestr. 4, 80539 Munich
Press Contact: Alwina Pampuch, alwina@kunstverein-muenchen.de
Exhibition title: Wall Sits
Artist: Diamond Stingily
Exhibition dates: Sept 21 – Nov 23, 2019 (Opening Sept 20, 2019)
Website: www.kunstverein-muenchen.de
Diamond Stingily (*1990 in Chicago) works on the materiality and mythology of identity.
Using everyday, found objects such as hair, doors or chains, Stingily negotiates personal
recollection and societal memory by relating them to social and economic questions. Wall
Sits at the Kunstverein München is Stingily’s first solo exhibition in Europe and presents an
overview of various groups of work as well as new productions that specifically relate to
the Kunstverein and its urban environment.
17Name participant: LENBACHHAUS MÜNCHEN
Address: Luisenstr. 33, 80333 Munich
Press Contact: Claudia Weber, +49 89 233 32020,
presse-lenbachhaus@muenchen.de
Exhibition title: BODY CHECK. Martin Kippenberger - Maria Lassnig
Curators: Veit Loers with Matthias Mühling and Elisabeth Giers
Artists: Martin Kippenberger, Maria Lassnig
Exhibition dates: May 05 – Sept 15, 2019
Opening hours: Tue. 10 am – 8 pm / Wed. – Sun. 10 am – 6 pm
Website: www.lenbachhaus.de/exhibitions/body-check/?L=1
The Lenbachhaus owes its worldwide renown to its unrivaled collection of "Blue Rider" art,
with works by Marc, Klee, Kandinsky, Münter, and others. In addition to the Munich school
of painters, treasures of Art Nouveau, and works of the New Objectivity, the museum also
showcases vital tendencies in international contemporary art and influential artists working
today.
The exhibition BODY CHECK. Martin Kippenberger - Maria Lassnig ventures an
unexpected encounter: it is the first to confront the works of these two influential
protagonists of twentieth-century painting with each other. Both artists undertake a
searching painterly examination of their own physical existence. The frail and fragmented
body serves them as a metaphor for social and psychological conflict. Pain and suffering,
absurdity and humor are inextricably interwoven in these studies of the flesh. Maria
Lassnig and Martin Kippenberger sought to cast the maladies of human life into artistic
form by dramatizing the female and male bodies. Their theatrical creations are self-
portraits in the classical sense, but without the air of heroism which is a hallmark of the
genre. Both reveal their disfigurements and the ravages of illness in depictions that are
alternately mocking and self-pitying–but never fall for the trope of the eminent artist and his
traditional attitudes. The results are touching self-explorations; in Lassnig's works, they
take on an aspect of obsession and introversion as she wrestles with the theme of the
artist's role, framing what we can recognize today as a feminist perspective.
Kippenberger's paintings, sculptures, and drawings signal a sense of humor that
complements Lassnig's wit with a note of inscrutable grotesquerie. The exhibition is
arranged to initiate intimate conversations between about one hundred selected works on
loan from international collections that are rarely on public display. A dialogue commences
that reveals intersections and shared concerns as well as differences between the artist's
approaches to the theme of the body.
An exhibition project in cooperation with the Museion. Museum of Modern and
Contemporary Art, Bozen/Bolzano.
18Exhibition title: Senga Nengudi. Topologies
Curators: Stephanie Weber and Anna Straetmans
Artists: Senga Nengudi
Exhibition dates: Sept 17, 2019 – Jan 19, 2020
Opening hours: Tue. 10 am – 8 pm / Wed. – Sun. 10 am – 6 pm
Website: https://www.lenbachhaus.de/exhibitions/vorschau/senga-nengudi/?L=1
For close to fifty years, Senga Nengudi (b. 1943) has shaped an oeuvre that inhabits a
specific and unique place between sculpture, dance and performance. Before moving to
Colorado Springs at the end of the 1980s where she lives until today, Nengudi was mostly
based in Los Angeles. In the 1960s and 1970s, L.A. was the capital of an African-
American artistic avant-garde with Nengudi as one of its pivotal figures. Her iconic R.S.V.P
sculptures, exhibited for the first time in 1976, are made from pantyhose combined with
natural materials such as sand and stone. While ostensibly abstract, their biomorphic
forms suggest a body under tension, both physical and social. The artist herself describes
the works as “stationary performances.” As the title of the growing series—R.S.V.P., short
for “Répondez, s’il vous plait” or “Please respond”—implies, these works formulate an
invitation and are occasionally activated during choreographed performances.
Performance is at the core of Nengudi's practice—a fact that will be reflected by the
exhibition.
19Name participant: Loggia
Partner: Mélange, Cologne, DE and Galeria Sabot, Cluj-Napoca, ROU
Address: Gabelsbergerstraße 26, 80333 München
Press Contact: Yves-Michele Saß / Tel. + 436608584392 /
info@loggialoggialoggia.com
Exhibition title: Mélange hosted by Loggia: Tramaine de Senna & Nicolás Lamas in
cooperation with Galeria Sabot, Cluj
Artists: Tramaine de Senna and Nicolás Lamas
Short vita: Tramaine de Senna (*San Francisco, California) lives and works in
Antwerp.
Nicolás Lamas (*1980, Lima, Peru) lives and works in Ghent.
Exhibition dates: Sept 14 – Oct 12, 2019
Opening hours: by appointment
Website: http://www.loggialoggialoggia.com
Website (partner): www.megamelange.com / www.galeria-sabot.ro
Nicolás Lama’s artistic practice is rooted in the collection and combination of found objects
that depict, in the sense of assemblage, ephemeral hybrids of nature and technology in
ever new contexts. His works reflect on the temporal condition surrounding us that is not
only mirrored in the form objects take but also in the moments between human beings.
Although it may have seemed, for a short time, that things were made to last, in the last
decade we have been awfully corrected. This impermanence is a key element of today’s
economic development and its maxims have been transferred to our own lives. Things that
stagnate and flow, wait, gain time, ferment and produce something incomprehensible.
As Tramaine de Senna puts it: materials are charged with “instincts” or memories. They
silently witness their own becoming. While Lamas combines found objects, de Senna
reacts to the everyday by recreating things that seem familiar. She plays with colors, forms
and material in order to revive and reconstruct the familiar. It is a strange migration of
forms pushing on our thought process across this effusive object. It can internalize
violence, maintain an ambiguous presence, just like a ghost, and, ultimately, visualize the
collision of histories and fading pasts.
20Name participant: Lothringer13_Florida
Address: Lothringer Str. 13, Rear Building, 81667 Munich
Press Contact: Frauke Zabel / Tel. + 49 (0)1751900045 /
frauke@lothringer13florida.org
Maria von Mier / Tel. + 49 (0)15775374374 /
m@lothringer13florida.org
Exhibition title: Paula Van Erven, Raphael Daibert, Mavi Veloso
Artists: Paula Van Erven, Raphael Daibert, Mavi Veloso
Exhibition dates: Sept 13 – Oct 30, 2019
Opening hours: Florida_ Fenêtre is always visible from the Lothringer Str. 13 (in front
of and in room in the Lothringer13_Halle)
Website: www.lothringer13florida.org
Website (partner): www.lanchonete.org/en/
The Lothringer13_Florida practices discussion and exchange – through screenings,
readings, meals, care, struggle and improvisation – and is based on a collaborative and
collective approach. In addition to its programs (both at its location in the Lothringerstrasse
and elsewhere), Lothringer13_Florida produces the annual Florida Magazine which
expands on the positions it represents as well as unites leading discourses and emphases.
Lothringer13_Florida is a municipal art space currently run by a committee of artists
consisting of Beowulf Tomek, Maria VMier, Gülbin Ünlü and Frauke Zabel.
Within the framework of Various Others, and in cooperation with the Villa Waldberta,
Lothringer13_Florida has invited the artists Paula Van Erven and Raphael Daibert from
São Paulo, Brazil, for a three-month stay in Munich. During this time, they are developing a
project which interweaves, through process-based approaches, their own individual artistic
practices with research on the queer history of Munich. The results will be compiled in an
artistic documentary publication. Together with Mavi Veloso, a performance artist from
Brazil who lives in Amsterdam, they will present their work during the opening weekend. A
portion of this will be on view in Florida_Fenêtre, Lothringer13_Florida’s exhibition space,
until the end of October.
Paula Van Erven is a painter, artist and translator. Born in Rio de Janeiro, she is currently
based in São Paulo, Brazil. She received her B.A. in Studio Arts from Bard College in
2014. From 2017– 2018, she was involved in the collective Lanchonete.org, a cultural
platform that raised questions concerning contemporary renderings of Lefebvre’s “right to
the city” and its ramifications for today’s São Paulo.
Raphael Daibert is a Brazilian researcher who works at the intersection of curating,
producing and art practice. He is currently completing his M.A. in Art Praxis at the Dutch
Art Institute. He is a founding member of Lanchonete.org in São Paulo, where he was
21based for the last ten years. From 2016–2018 he was a member of the ArtsEverywhere.ca
editorial team and has also been a fellow researcher for the study group “Gesturing
Towards Decolonial Futures” at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His work
focuses on engaged art projects involving gender and sexuality, anticolonialism,
migrations, indigeneity and radical pedagogy.
Mavi Veloso (Pacaembu, São Paulo, 1985) is a Brazilian transdisciplinary visual and
performance artist, dancer, actress, singer, songwriter, graphic and web designer currently
based in Amsterdam. As a transgender and as a migrant from Latin America to Europe,
she embodies and appropriates transformation and cultural adaptation processes as well
as elements from the fashion, queer, trans and drag queen spheres to investigate issues
of gender, identity, sexuality, placement and displacement in her productions.
22Name participant: Nir Altman
Partner: Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig, DE
Address: Ringseisstrasse 4 Rgb, 80337 Munich
Press Contact: Nir Altman / +49 (0)17645749584 / info@niraltman.com
Exhibition title: Eva Grubinger, Timo Seber, Johannes Tassilo Walter: Various Others
Artists: Eva Grubinger, Timo Seber, Johannes Tassilo Walter
Exhibition dates: Sept 12 – Oct 13, 2019
Opening hours: Wed. – Fri. 12 – 6 pm, Sat. 11 am – 4 pm
Website: www.niraltman.com
Website (partner): www.tobiasnaehring.de
Founded in Munich, Germany, in 2016, Nir Altman continually explores the revision of
spaces, highlighting the interplay between body and space that figures into the process of
production in the artist's studio and is well known to add layers of complexity in the
exhibition space. It approaches the spatial terrain not only as the setting for the staging of
objects for display but also as abstracted pictorial content itself.
Showcasing primarily installations and interdisciplinary work, Nir Altman aspires to provide
an intimate, adaptable environment and supportive platform for experimental projects
initiated by emerging and mid-career artists of diverse backgrounds and practices. The
sites of art production and exhibition – including the studio – are reflected and playfully
explored in the projects encountered there, which the gallery, in turn, situates within an
ongoing discourse on the production and reception of contemporary art.
Galerie Tobias Naehring was founded in Leipzig in 2011. The gallery was initially located
on the first floor of a Wilhelminian house west of Leipzig, until it moved to a new space in
2018 on the site of a former cotton spinning mill, the Baumwollspinnerei. The gallery's
program includes painting (Sebastian Burger, Malte Masemann, Nadira Husain, Johannes
Daniel), sculpture (Eva Grubinger, Wilhelm Klotzek, Thomas Rentmeister), photography
(Oskar Schmidt), video (Ronny Bulik) and conceptual art (Timo Seber). The gallery has
taken part in numerous art fairs including Art Cologne, Art Berlin (formerly "abc"), Sunday
Art Fair (London), Not Fair (Warsaw), DAMA (Turin), Art Rotterdam, Art Dusseldorf and
Code Art Fair (Copenhagen).
Nir Altman and Tobias Naehring are pleased to announce their collaboration for Various
Others
2019 with a group exhibition by Eva Grubinger, Johannes Tassilo Walter and Timo Seber.
Eva Grubinger (*1970, Salzburg) studied at the Berlin University of the Arts. Over the past
twenty years, her work has been shown in numerous international institutions including
solo exhibitions at the Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, Baltic Centre for
Contemporary Art in Newcastle, Kiasma Museum in Helsinki, Berlinische Galerie, Schirn
23Kunsthalle in Frankfurt and Museum Belvedere in Vienna. She has also participated in
many group exhibitions in Germany and abroad including the Deichtorhallen Hamburg,
Taipei Fine Art Museum, Krannert Art Museum, Illinois, Marrakech Biennale and Witte de
With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam. In addition, she has been a professor for
sculpture in Linz, Dusseldorf and Munich.
Johannes Tassilo Walter (*1982, Munich) studied fine arts in Munich and Dusseldorf. In
2015, he completed his studies as a master student of Markus Oehlen. From 2011 to
2015, JTW was a fellow of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German Academic
Scholarship Foundation). He also received the Debutant Funding of the BBK Bavaria as
well as the Bavarian Art Award in 2017. JTW was co-founder and operator of the artist-run
space Prince of Wales in Munich. He has taken part in exhibitions in Berlin, Dusseldorf,
Copenhagen, Hamburg, Leipzig, Milan, Munich and Reykjavik.
Timo Seber (*1984, Cologne) studied at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. His works
have been shown in solo exhibitions including the Ludwig Forum in Aachen and the
Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst in Bremen, among others. He has taken part in group
exhibitions at the nGbK – neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, the Bonner
Kunstverein and the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn. He received the Peter Mertes Scholarship
and the Columbus Award for Contemporary Art, a working stipend for fine arts from the
Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
24Name participant: Pinakothek der Moderne
Sammlung Moderne Kunst | Gegenwartskunst
Address: Barer Straße 40, 80333 München
Press Contact: Tine Nehler M.A., Head of Press Department Pinakotheken |
Pinakothek der Moderne | Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen,
+49 (0)89 23805-300 / presse@pinakothek.de / www.pinakothek-der-
moderne.de/presse, http://www.pinakothek.de/press
Exhibition title: Raoul de Keyser. Oeuvre
Curator: Bernhart Schwenk
Artists: Raoul de Keyser
Exhibition dates: April 04 – Sept 15, 2019
Website: https://www.pinakothek.de/en/exhibitions/raoul-de-keyser-oeuvre
The exhibition of the life’s work of Belgian painter Raoul De Keyser (1930–2012) at the
Pinakothek der Moderne brings together more than 100 paintings, many going on public
display for the first time, representing all phases of his long career. The works are on loan
from around 40 public and private art collections in Europe, China, Japan and the USA.
With a lightness of touch and more than a splash of humor, Raoul De Keyser plays with
the conventions of art history. This, too, may be one reason why De Keyser is admired as
a “painter’s painter” who continues to inspire subsequent generations of artists. The
retrospective is the first major German museum show since the artist’s death.
Event title: Ambient for a Silent Forest
Sound Performance by Kalas Liebfried in Resonance to Joseph Beuys
followed by an Artist Talk
Curator: Corinna Thierolf
Assistant curator: Tatjana Schäfer
Artist: Kalas Liebfried
Date: Sept 17, 2019, 6:30 pm
Joseph Beuys’s “The End of the 20th Century” is a key artwork in the permanent collection
of the Pinakothek der Moderne. The installation comprising 44 basalt columns questions –
in title, materiality and form – the meaning of nature in relation to society and the
individual. Kalas Liebfried’s ambient sound performances fuse our visual perception of
space with acoustic experience, creating atmospherically charged environments.
25Specifically developed for the site of “The End of the 20th Century”, the sound performance
“Ambient for a Silent Forest” spins a web between naturally occurring forms on the one
hand and those made by human intervention on the other, with the individual acting as a
dynamic force at the web’s center. The sound performance is followed by an artist talk
between Kalas Liebfried and Corinna Thierolf, Head of Postwar Art, moderated by Tatjana
Schäfer, whose curatorial assistantship is generously funded by the International Patrons
of the Pinakothek.
Event title: Denkraum Deutschland | The museum as a place of political exchange
In context of the TOGETTHERE-XPERIENCE, programm of the art education
Duration: Sept 28 – Oct 10, 2019
Following the model of Joseph Beuys’s participatory project during documenta 6 in 1977,
the museum is about to become a place of open dialogue on our society and democratic
values, and an arena for shared experience. A starting point is the video work “On Fear
and Education, Disappointment and Justice, Protest and Division in Saxony/Germany” by
Mario Pfeifer. Artists, designers and architects are invited to engage the audience in a fluid
discourse on politics and their understanding of democracy as reflected in artistic thought
and activity. The program, which for the first time ever museum visitors will themselves
codetermine in a preparatory workshop, will be announced in September at
www.pinakothek-der-moderne.de.
26Name participant: Ruine München
Address: No fixed address; please send your physical letters to Ruine München,
Baumstraße 8b, 80469 München
Press Contact: Jan Erbelding (Tel. + 49 (0)17624469448) / Maria von Mier (Tel. + 49
(0)15775374374) / Leo Heinik: mail@ruine-muenchen.de
Exhibition title: Wisdom Warriors
Artists: Diogo da Cruz, João Pedro Costa
Exhibition dates: Sept 13 and Sept 15, 2019
Opening hours: Sept 13: 6-9 pm, Sept 15: 2-9 pm (performance at 7 pm)
Website: www.ruine-muenchen.de
Website (partner): www.diogocruz.net
Diogo da Cruz is a conceptual artist based in Munich and Lisbon working within an
interdisciplinary field of speculation. He received a B.A. in sculpture from the Faculty of
Fine Arts of Lisbon (2012) and a Diploma in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts
Munich (2016), where he studied with the professor Hermann Pitz and the guest
professors Ceal Floyer, Andrea Fraser and Tyler Coburn. He participated in the
Independent Study Program at the Maumaus School of Visual Arts in Lisbon (2016). His
work has been shown in Portugal, Germany, Austria, Spain, Greece, Sweden, Bulgaria,
Scotland, Russia, Poland and England.
João Pedro Costa is a product designer based in Lisbon. He received a B.A. and M.A. in
product design from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon (2014/2018) and he is a member of
the graduate staff in the Product Design Department of the same institute. During his
studies, he was awarded a research grant from the Amadeu Dias Foundation. Costa is
cofounder of the ProjectLAbb of FBAUL thats gives support to students in bachelor,
masters and doctoral programs and produces prototypes or small series of products for
several companies, designers and artists. His Master‘s thesis “Compostable Bioplastics in
the Circular Economy” was presented twice publicly in Lisbon, and he has been engaged
in several projects bridging art and design.
(...) the “Wisdom Warriors” are a collective or movement that is responding to an
expected dystopian future through technological disruption and rebellion. The idea of the
“Wisdom Warriors” was developed by Diogo da Cruz, in these times of so-called
“alternative facts,” out of the desire to investigate how one can talk about reality today and
how one can obscure or even dissolve the difference between what is real and what is
imagined. Among other things, da Cruz presents the uniforms, manifestos or internet chats
of this group that has left the realms of the art object and increasingly perforates and
obscures the border between the art object and a group of activists: da Cruz has created a
movement that he no longer controls. As spectators, we remain in doubt: is it really
27possible that this group has formed, enlarged and emancipated itself from the artwork in
real life, or is it still part of the artistic narration?
(Text: Anja Lückenkemper)
After an invitation from Ruine München to collaborate on a publication, Diogo da Cruz will
develop a new aspect of “Wisdom Warriors.” In addition to the publication, he is designing
– together with João Pedro Costa – a provisional shelter that will be used not only to host
the launch of the publication in a public space but also to expand the collaboration into an
immersive sculpture that will integrate a new performance piece.
RUINE MÜNCHEN
(RNE MN)
Ruine München (Ruin Munich) understands itself as an exhibition space in the format of a
series of publications, something like a performance-oriented artist-run space without a set
place – an art institution as a zine for real-life solo shows. We do about four
exhibitions/editions/zines a year, each accompanied by a performative release event at a
different location. As always, in the most urgent desire to run an art space. Emerging from
the suspicion that, as a young artist, something isn’t being provided to me, something that
requires some kind of trust in advance, something unapproved, misleading,
disadvantageous, maybe possible. Emerging from various – at least it feels like –
absences; absences that produce the urgency to change something.
Ruine München is meant to be the space for what we are missing out on and what we are
missing here – a space for those whose allies we’d like to be, a space for those we’d like
to be closer to, a space for what, from our distorted perspectives, is most of the time
getting overlooked or exaggerated.
Ruine
Urine(
Everything is already corroded. Fucked-up system – funny, crusty, transcendent, etc.:
yesyes, nono:
Rejection
Triumph
-> Back to the artists.
In our selection process, we focus on supporting artists that don’t (or barely) deal with the
production of objects and who, as part of their artistic practice, develop formats of
representation beyond the situation of an exhibition. Furthermore, Ruine München is
meant to be a podium for artists who have had no or little institutional opportunities to
exhibit.
No career coming.
And no down.
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