This shot shows a film still of three men dressed alike, with the same hairstyles, sitting exhausted and resigned on broad steps. The floor is full of scattered papers, the contents of which are not discernible. Aernout Mik, Sammlung Goetz Munich

Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid

fast forward. Avance rápido. Media Art de la Coleccíon Goetz

February 9 – April 17, 2005

“The fundamental questioning of our social reality all the way to the breaking of specific taboos and the formal investigation of our perception, the aesthetic – these are the two areas of art that interest me the most and that essentially dominate my collection.“ (Ingvild Goetz)

With Francis Alÿs, Emanuelle Antille, Kutlug Ataman, Andrea Bowers, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, David Claerbout, Rineke Dijkstra, Tracey Emin, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Rodney Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Mark Leckey, Metthew McCaslin, Bjørn Melhus, Aernout Mik, Tracey Moffatt, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Gabriel Orozco, Tony Oursler, Luca Pancrazzi, Paul Pfeiffer, Pipilotti Rist, Anri Sala, Sam Taylor-Wood and Diana Thater.

As a private collector, Ingvild Goetz decided early on to focus on the new medium of video art. She thus takes a vanguard role due to the fact that video art is technologically complex; its installation and maintenance is often highly time-consuming. Over the course of many years, she has developed an international collection of media art that is among the most significant in the world.

The exhibition fast forward. Avance rápido was developed in cooperation with ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and Sammlung Goetz in Munich and shown in 2003/04 in the ZKM Karlsruhe. Including a representative selection of videos, video installations and films, it for the first time gave an impression of the Sammlung Goetz media collection. Some of the works in this exhibition had been on view in the Centro Cultural Conde Duque in Madrid. This show featured a selection of current works from the 1990s through the present day.

Fast forward. Avance rápido. Media Art de la Colección Goetz

128 pages, 533 ill., softcover
Spanish
2005, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid
ISBN 84-96102-11-4

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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. Her series In and Around the House (1978/79) is exemplary for this set-up photography. The series is the centerpiece of the exhibition, with 56 black-and-white images showing a doll occupied with the mundane chores of a housewife in the cozy environment of a dollhouse. The exhibition “Laurie Simmons: Dollhouse Photographs”, a collaboration of Sammlung Goetz, Deutsches Theatermuseum and FILMFEST MÜNCHEN, 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

Los Angeles-based American artist Sterling Ruby is known for his cross-genre work, which ranges from ceramics and bronzes, collages and textiles, to enormous, spray-painted paintings. In his works, Ruby weaves together a variety of different autobiographical, art-historical, and sociological sources. Through deconstruction and reconstruction, he probes the idea of a non-hierarchical and borderless universe. The exhibition at the Sammlung Goetz /Schaufenster provides insight into his multi-layered artistic practice.

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.