This picture shows a painting with pencil, acrylic colours and coloured pencil on paper, which has the shape of a star. The motive consists of several small drawings, in the middle you see an odd version of Jimi Hendrix.

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Mike Kelley – Peter Fischli, David Weiss

June 13 – November 4, 2000

With the exhibition Mike Kelley – Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Sammlung Goetz contrasted two artistic positions of a generation that address existential questions from very different perspectives. They give no answers but shake up views that have become taken for granted.

The Swiss artist duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss is known for its fragile experimental set-ups. Often with only minimal artistic intervention, the two use humor to convey a feeling of permanent uncertainty. Their international breakthrough came with their film Der Lauf der Dinge (1986/87) (The Way Things Go, translator's note), that was presented at the documenta 8. Fischli and Weiss do not commit themselves to any particular interpretation of their works. Instead, they invite viewers to openly reflect upon the world.

Mike Kelley reveals the traumas of our affluent western society. His installations of used stuffed animals, such as Citrus and White (1991), touch upon long forgotten childhood memories. Kelley comes from a working class family in the 'motor-town' of Detroit. Social repression, family conflicts and the flight into subcultures soon became issues for him. Although he is now one of the most influential artists in the US, he has always felt like an outsider.

This exhibition in Sammlung Goetz enables a dialogue between video works, installations, drawings and sculptures: a dialogue that has come together largely due to the willingness and cooperation of the three artists. Due to space limitations, the extensive installation Alma Pater / Wolverine Den (1990) is being shown in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus. The Filmmuseum also presents two evening screenings of the video films.

Mike Kelley – Peter Fischli, David Weiss

136 pages, 104 ill., hardcover
German/English
2000, Kunstverlag Ingvild Goetz GmbH, Hamburg
ISBN 3-9805267-5-5

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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.