This photograph seems like a film still. A woman in a red dress stands thoughtfully in the foreground, holding glasses in her hands. Behind her, different stereotypes gather in front of a painted desert scenery.
    Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

    Die Wohltat der Kunst. Post/Feministische Positionen der neunziger Jahre

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    Against the backdrop of a detailed examination of gender relationships, the exhibition again raises questions about the construction of the concepts of body image and attributes of identity. The term 'post-feminism' in the subtitle does not aim to set boundaries to feminist concepts from the 1970s but to review them.

    With Matthew Barney, Rineke Dijkstra, Tracey Emin, Mona Hatoum, Jonathan Horowitz, Sarah Jones, Mike Kelley, Karen Kilimnik, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Moffatt, Cady Noland, Catherine Opie, Pipilotti Rist, Daniela Rossell, Cindy Sherman, Ann-Sofi Sidén, Sam Taylor-Wood, Gillian Wearing, Sue Williams and Andrea Zittel.

    Based on the observation that female artists were fairly well represented in exhibitions and on the art market of the 1990s, this show presents works by 20 artists (17 female artists and three male artists) who deal critically with body image as manifested in our society, as well as with the balance of power. This issue is also one of the main emphases of Ingvild Goetz's collection: “I want my collection to shake up people or draw their attention – not only in the political sense but also through very good, i.e. aesthetically good art.” The exhibition includes many photographs and video works that investigate and criticize the notion of the ideal body image found in the media.
    The exhibition, curated by Rainald Schumacher (Sammlung Goetz) and Matthias Winzen (Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden), which will subsequently be shown in a modified form in the Sammlung Goetz exhibition building, was created in close collaboration with Ingvild Goetz. It not only reflects the profile of the collection, but also provides an insight into the collector's thinking.


    Further exhibition dates :

    Sammlung Goetz
    December 1, 2002 – March 14, 2003

    Under the tilte Just Love Me:
    Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, NO
    August 23 – October 26, 2003

    Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL
    April 24 – June 21, 2004

    Die Wohltat der Kunst
    Post/Feministische Positionen der neunziger Jahre aus der Sammlung Goetz

    241 pages, 140 ill., softcover
    German
    2002, Kunstverlag Ingvild Goetz GmbH, Hamburg; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
    ISBN 3-88375-621-0
    € 20,00

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    Upcoming

    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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