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

November 22, 2004 – May 7, 2005

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 single-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.

Cyrill Lachauer. The Sunset Route

June 20 – September 27, 2026 | 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.