Exhibition view with geometric abstract photographs on orange wall and floor sculpture made of colorful plexiglass
    Sammlung Goetz BASE 103

    Barbara Kasten

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    The exhibition Barbara Kasten is the US-American artist’s first survey exhibition in a European museum conceived in cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. For its presentation at the Sammlung Goetz, the artist developed a site-specific color concept, which structures the exhibition space and the various groups of works.

    Barbara Kasten (*1936) has created an impressive body of work over her artistic career, spanning from the 1970s to the present. Her oeuvre includes photographs, sculptures, expansive objects and complex multimedia installations. Kasten completed her fine arts studies at the University of Arizona in 1959, earning a degree in painting.

    During her time in Germany—from 1964 to 1967—she became acquainted with the Bauhaus and its ideas; intrigued by its interdisciplinary approach, Kasten became interested in the interplay between architecture, space, textiles, stage, light and color.

    Inspired by the photograms of Bauhaus teacher Lázló Moholy-Nagy, the artist began experimenting with camera-less photography in 1974. In addition to the German Bauhaus, Russian Constructivism and American Minimal Art, the Californian Light and Space movement significantly influenced Kasten’s work.  

    The focus of the exhibition are Kasten’s abstract geometric color photographs from her 1980s series Construct and Architectural Site, which explores the interplay of light and shadow and introduces novel spatial experiences. Also on view are other work groups, such as the Photogenic Paintings, camera-less photographs—produced using a chemical iron solution--and Double Negatives, a series of silver gelatin prints, as well as pictorial objects with fluorescent Plexiglas and a video installation by the artist. The broad presentation is a testament to Kasten’s cross-genre artistic approach and her commitment to experimentation.

    Curator: Karsten Löckemann
    Curatorial assistant: Pietro Tondello

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    Accompanying program

    Sammlung Goetz

    Public tour

    Through the exhibitions 'Imi Knoebel' and 'Barbara Kasten'

    Sammlung Goetz

    Art after work

    Staff members of the Sammlung Goetz guide visitors through the exhibitions 'Imi Knoebel' and 'Barbara Kasten'

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    Architecture and Art in Dialogue

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    Barbara Kasten. Works

    272 pages, 145 ill., hardcover
    German/English
    2020, Koenig Books, London
    ISBN 978-3-96098-774-1
    € 39,90

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    Current exhibitions

    Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg. The Experiment

    – | Sammlung Goetz x LOVECRAFT

    Temporarily closed until probably October 4

    The Sammlung Goetz has a new exhibition venue in the heart of Munich. In the former Kaufhof department store at Stachus, which currently houses the interim use project LOVECRAFT, the Sammlung Goetz will occupy an area of around 2000 square meters in the basement, thus serving as a temporary alternative venue for the exhibition building in Oberföhring, which is closed for renovation. The artist duo Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg will inaugurate this new space with the expansive multimedia installation The Experiment.

     

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

    – | Münchner Stadtmuseum

    The Puppet Theater / Fairground Attraction Collection was a Münchner Stadtmuseum permanent exhibition on puppeteering history for over 30 years during which time it penned its own chapter for the annals of history. “(Not) A Doll’s House. Traditional Roles and Brand-New Images” is the result of interdisciplinary cooperation with the Sammlung Goetz and the Münchner Stadtmuseum Photography Collection. With the impending refurbishment and temporary close-down of the museum, it has seized the opportunity to stimulate a dialog between the museum’s collections and contemporary artworks.

    Further exhibitions

    Jianling Zhang. Media Art Award 2023
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    AkademieGalerie, München

    Barbara Kasten
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    Sammlung Goetz BASE 103

    Imi Knoebel
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    Sammlung Goetz

    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

    Pleasure Beach
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    Sammlung Goetz Unter Deck

    STILL LIFE. Photography from the Stiftung Ann und Jürgen Wilde in Dialogue with works from the Sammlung Goetz
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    Pinakothek der Moderne | Room 8

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