Supported by Sammlung Goetz, the Beruflichen Schulen an der Bergsonstrasse, Munich (Vocational Schools on Bergsonstrasse, translator's note) showed Bjørn Melhus's video installation The Oral Thing (2001) from April 14 to May 13, 2005.
In this work, the artist satirizes American daytime talk shows. For the entire duration of the exhibition, the video installation was available for viewing in a specially designed black box in the school auditorium. Informational guides to assist in teaching this media-critical work had been available.
The staging of female role models in photographic self-portraits is the central theme in the work of the American artist Cindy Sherman. In doing so, she draws on stereotypes from the collective visual memory within a media-shaped world. The exhibition at the Sammlung Goetz / Schaufenster focuses on works from her Fashion series, created between 1983 and 1984. Through Sherman’s passion for costume and masquerade, the world of fashion offers a broad field for her artistic exploration.