Black and white photograph of four women holding number balloons
    AkademieGalerie, München

    Jianling Zhang. Media Art Award 2023

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    Jianling Zhang, a graduate of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, has been selected to receive the Media Art Arward 2023 of the Kunststiftung Ingvild and Stephan Goetz for her project proposal, The First and Final girl. The prize is acknowledged with 5,000 euros and linked to an exhibition in the AkademieGalerie.

     

    Researching into the history and formation of monstrous femininity and reproductive powers in horror films, Zhang looks into parthenogenetic motherhood: the mother who has the power of reproduction beyond male control. Wrapped in shifting tempo-spatial coordinates, the ghostly belly evokes different associations: would it be a miracle of life, a coffin of an unborn child, a satanic entity or a host of post/transhuman? In contrast to a typical Hollywood “Final Girl”, the characters seem to be haunted by pregnancy itself, entangled with other forms of being.

    The Media Art Award of the Kunststiftung Ingvild and Stephan Goetz is a cooperation between the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München and the Sammlung Goetz. The prize is to be awarded annually for an initial period of three years and is bestowed on younger artists active in the field of media art in order to help support the creation of new works and strengthen their public perception.

    Opening weekend during Various Others

    3 channel black and white video projection on wall

    Q & A with Jianling Zhang

    What if women had the ability to reproduce without a partner? A horror vision? Or a paradise without men? Chinese artist Jianling Zhang explored this question in her installation. In our Q & A she reports on the genesis of the cinematic project

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    Current exhibitions

    Encounters. Artistic perspectives on cinema

    – | Deutsches Theatermuseum München

    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.

    Gutai. Collection + Goetz

    – | Pinakothek der Moderne | Sammlung Moderne Kunst (Modern Art Collection)

    Since 2019, in the context of the Sammlung+ format, the Sammlung Moderne Kunst has presented artistic discoveries, new acquisitions and thematic foci in the Pinakothek der Moderne in collaboration with partners and foundations. This has led to the emergence of new perspectives on the collections, new insights into research work and the establishment of new dialogues. It is in this framework that a selection of paintings by the Japanese artist group Gutai from the Sammlung Goetz will be presented in room 23, within a series of rooms focusing on near-contemporaneous regional and German abstraction phenomena under the title “Walk the Line.”  Founded in 1954 by the abstract painter Jiro Yoshihara, Gutai was one of the 20th century’s most innovative artistic movements, which combined action, abstraction and materiality.

    A Change of Scenery. Artists' Wallpapers from the Sammlung Goetz

    – | Neues Museum Nürnberg

    The collaborative project between the Sammlung Goetz and the Neues Museum Nürnberg offers an exciting interplay between interior and exterior space. In the museum’s six façade rooms, the two institutions present wallpapers designed by artists represented in the Sammlung Goetz. Most of the works were created in the context of earlier large-scale installations and have now been adapted to the new space in Nuremberg.

    Further Exhibitions

    Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg. The Experiment

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    Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg. The Experiment
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    Sammlung Goetz x LOVECRAFT

    Jianling Zhang. Media Art Award 2023
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    AkademieGalerie, München

    (Not) A Doll’s House. Traditional Roles and Brand-New Images
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    Münchner Stadtmuseum

    Blumenprojektion, Herbst (Flower Projection, Autumn), (1998) Peter Fischli David Weiss
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    An intervention of the Sammlung Goetz in the Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg

    Barbara Kasten
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    Sammlung Goetz BASE 103

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