Filmmuseum Munich

Matthew Barney. CREMASTER 2

March 3 – March 5, 2000

In 1999, CREMASTER 2, Matthew Barney’s third film of the monumental, five-part CREMASTER cycle, which was not produced chronologically, was completed; it premiered in Minneapolis that same year and was acquired a short time later by the Sammlung Goetz. The Filmmuseum is presenting this new acquisition in a cooperative event with the Sammlung Goetz.

CREMASTER 2, 1999, 79’

The film CREMASTER 2 tells the life story of the murderer Gary Gilmore, who was executed in Utah in the 1970s for killing a Mormon gas station owner in Orem. Gilmore’s childhood was characterized by abuse and violence. After his arrest, he refused to defend himself and demanded his lawyers seek the death penalty for him. Barney, who gives the story a mythological charge and transports it to the Columbia Icefields in Canada and the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, stages the execution of the convicted murderer as a rodeo.

Introduction: Rainald Schumacher

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.