Black and white photograph of four women holding number balloons

AkademieGalerie, München

Jianling Zhang. Media Art Award 2023

September 7 – September 21, 2023

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.

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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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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.

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.