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Deutsches Theatermuseum München

Encounters. Artistic perspectives on cinema

July 3 – September 8, 2024

In the context of the Munich Film Festival and in cooperation with the Deutsches Theatermuseum, the Sammlung Goetz will present films by artists who explore aesthetic strategies of cinema. Through the use of innovative techniques and experimental narrative forms, the works on view offer a multi-layered reflection on film as a medium. So viewers can experience the full scope of artistic perspectives, an extensive, changing program has been created and will be shown in a specially designed cinema on the upper floor of the Deutsches Theatermuseum. A reading lounge in the foyer invites visitors to discover more about the exhibited artistic positions.

With works by Yael Bartana, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster & Tristan Bera, Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler, Sven Johne, Isaac Julien, Jesper Just, Annika Larsson, Christian Marclay, Tracey Moffatt, Tracey Moffatt & Gary Hillberg, Marcel Odenbach, Julian Rosefeldt, Aïda Ruilova, Ann-Sofi Sidén and Yang Fudong.

Film program

1^stprogram (3.–28.7.2024), duration: approx. 68'

Isaac Julien, Paradise Omeros, 2002, 20’29’’

Tracey Moffatt, Night Cries – A Rural Tragedy, 1989, 16’34’’

Marcel Odenbach, Im Schiffbruch nicht schwimmen können, 2011, 8’15’’

Yael Bartana, The Undertaker, 2019, 13’

Yang Fudong, Honey (mi), 2003, 9’29’’

2^ndprogram (30.7.–18.8.2024), duration: approx. 70'

Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler, House with Pool, 2004, 20’39’’

Jesper Just, A Room of One's Own, 2008, 8’29’’

Annika Larsson, Pink Ball, 2002, 16’13’’

Sven Johne, Elmenhorst, 2006, 6’20’’

Yang Fudong, Lock Again, 2004, 3’

Julian Rosefeldt, Lonely Planet, 2006, 16’18’’

3^rdprogram (20.8.–8.9.2024), duration: approx. 80'

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster & Tristan Bera, Belle Comme le Jour, 2012, 13’

Isaac Julien, Three, 1996-99, 15’55’’

Aïda Ruilova, life like, 2006, 5’19’’

Julian Rosefeldt, Deep Gold, 2013/14, 18’12’’

Ann-Sofi Sidén, QM, I Think I Call Her QM, 1997, 28’

Presentation in the reading lounge on a monitor (3.7.–8.9.2024)

Christian Marclay, Telephones, 1995, 7’30’’

Tracey Moffatt & Gary Hillberg, Lip, 1999, 9’45’’

Tracey Moffatt & Gary Hillberg, Artist, 1999, 9’50’’

Curated by Cornelia Gockel, Pietro Tondello and Susanne Touw.
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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.

Laurie Simmons. Dollhouse Photographs

June 25 – August 30, 2026 | 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

July 16 – October 24, 2026 | 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

November 17, 2026 – February 20, 2027 | 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.