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    Pinakothek der Moderne | Room 8

    STILL LIFE. Photography from the Stiftung Ann und Jürgen Wilde in Dialogue with works from the Sammlung Goetz

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    The presentation in the Pinakothek der Moderne of still life photographs from the Ann and Jürgen Wilde Foundation and the Sammlung Goetz continues the dialogue between works of different collections that began with the show Au rendez-vous des amis.

    With Florence Henri, Albert Renger-Patzsch and Wolfgang Tillmans.

    The focus of the current presentation is photography, an artform that experienced great shifts in aesthetics and reception during the twentieth century. Both collections were built by private individuals and reflect their creators’ distinct interests. The collection of Ann and Jürgen Wilde focuses on avant-garde artists from the 1920s and 1930s, while the Sammlung Goetz aspires to build a bridge between contemporary art and other artistic media and processes. For the juxtaposition of the impressive holdings of both collections, the curators have selected the still life, a genre that has its roots in painting but continues to play an essential role in photographic images today.

    Curated by Simone Förster and Karsten Löckemann

     

     

    Pinakotheken München
    Pinakothek der Moderne

    Au rendez-vous des amis. Modernism in Dialogue with Contemporary Art from the Sammlung Goetz

    176 pages, 100 ill., hardcover
    German/English
    2021, Hirmer Verlag, Munich
    ISBN 978-3-7774-3766-8
    € 29,90

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    Upcoming exhibitions

    Cyrill Lachauer. The Sunset Route

    – | Kunstpalais Erlangen

    feat. Mike Brodie, Mouse Green, Rhyw, Mia Justice Smith, Moritz Stumm

    In the exhibition The Sunset Route, on view at the Kunstpalais Erlangen and created in collaboration with the Sammlung Goetz, Cyrill Lachauer presents works from 2020 to 2025, a period during which he traveled on freight trains through the USA, Mexico, and Bosnia. In the spirit of poetic ethnography, he created photographs and films that are now being shown together for the first time. They all explore questions of freedom, self-determination, and resistance, as well as colonization, exclusion, and exploitation.

     

    Laurie Simmons. Dollhouse Photographs

    – | Deutsches Theatermuseum

    The American artist Laurie Simmons is known for her photographs featuring tiny dolls representing stereotypical female roles in domestic interiors. The exhibition, a collaboration between Sammlung Goetz, Deutsches Theatermuseum and Filmfest Munich, presents a selection of works by Simmons that cast a critical gaze at gender stereotypes in the American middle class.

    Sterling Ruby

    – | Sammlung Goetz /Schaufenster

    The American artist Sterling Ruby, who lives and works in Los Angeles, is known for his multi-disciplinary body of work, which includes sculptures, ceramics, bronzes, collages, textiles, and expansive spray-painted canvases in which he intertwines a wide variety of autobiographical, art historical, and sociological sources. Through deconstruction and reconstruction, Ruby explores the idea of a non-hierarchical and borderless universe. The exhibition at the Sammlung Goetz /Schaufenster lends insight into his multifaceted artistic practice through a selection of works created between 2008 and 2016.

     

    Jeff Wall

    – | Sammlung Goetz /Schaufenster

    Canadian artist Jeff Wall is one of the most influential photographers of our time. In his elaborately staged pictorial compositions, he combines the narrative of cinema with painting. Wall became known for his large-format lightbox images, which are formally more reminiscent of the world of advertising than that of fine art. With this technique, he revolutionized the medium of photography, elevating it to the height of painting and sculpture. The exhibition at the Sammlung Goetz /Schaufenster presents a selection of his iconic lightbox images from the 1990s.

    Further exhibitions

    Elmgreen & Dragset. Handle with Care
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    Sammlung Goetz /Schaufenster

    Merlin Stadler. Stilled Life
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    AkademieGalerie München

    Pipilotti Rist and Yayoi Kusama. Works from the Sammlung Goetz
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    Neues Museum Nürnberg

    Cindy Sherman at Palais Montgelas
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    Palais Montgelas

    Eunju Hong. Somnium
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    AkademieGalerie München

    Encounters. Artistic perspectives on cinema
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    Deutsches Theatermuseum München

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