This film still shows a young girl with dark hair in a dark room playing a game with threads among her fingers. She seems to be isolated from the other children playing along, of whom only the raised hands with the same threads in them can be seen. Doug Aitken, Sammlung Goetz Munich
    Sammlung Goetz BASE103

    Doug Aitken

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    Doug Aitken's video installations and photographs are located between documentation and fiction. Sammlung Goetz presented a selection of art by the American artist in its BASE 103 media area. These works reflect the tense relationship between nature and civilization.

    The 1995 eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano on the Caribbean island of Monserrat is the starting point of the video installation Eraser (1998). Taking a fictitious walk, the seven-part artwork shows how nature reclaims a piece of land that humans have left. I am in you (linear version) (2000) provides insights into the emotional world of a very young girl. The combination of image and sound in this one-channel video projection gradually causes the interior and exterior perspectives to diverge.
    Doug Aitken's photographs form an independent work complex in his oeuvre. Similarly to his video installations, they poetically focus on the relationship between time and space. In the lounge area of BASE 103, Sammlung Goetz presented the photographs The movement (2000) and the monumental tryptich Two second separation II (1999).
    Doug Aitken became internationally known through his prizewinning video installation Electric Earth (1999) which was shown at the Venice Biennale.

    Upcoming

    Gutai. Collection + Goetz

    – | Pinakothek der Moderne | Sammlung Moderne Kunst (Modern Art Collection)

    Since 2019, in the context of the Sammlung+ format, the Sammlung Moderne Kunst has presented artistic discoveries, new acquisitions and thematic foci in the Pinakothek der Moderne in collaboration with partners and foundations. This has led to the emergence of new perspectives on the collections, new insights into research work and the establishment of new dialogues. It is in this framework that a selection of paintings by the Japanese artist group Gutai from the Sammlung Goetz will be presented in room 23, within a series of rooms focusing on near-contemporaneous regional and German abstraction phenomena under the title “Walk the Line.”  Founded in 1954 by the abstract painter Jiro Yoshihara, Gutai was one of the 20th century’s most innovative artistic movements, which combined action, abstraction and materiality.

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    Sammlung Goetz x LOVECRAFT

    Jianling Zhang. Media Art Award 2023
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    AkademieGalerie, München

    (Not) A Doll’s House. Traditional Roles and Brand-New Images
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    Münchner Stadtmuseum

    Blumenprojektion, Herbst (Flower Projection, Autumn), (1998) Peter Fischli David Weiss
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    An intervention of the Sammlung Goetz in the Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg

    Barbara Kasten
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    Sammlung Goetz BASE 103

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