Video Still of a car driving scene bathed in pink light, seen from the back seat through the front windshield. Olaf Breuning, Sammlung Goetz Munich

Seedamm Kulturzentrum Pfäffikon, Charles and Agnes Vögele Foundation

Realit;-)t. Video works from Sammlung Goetz in Munich. From Olaf Breuning to Sam Taylor-Wood

August 26 – October 25, 2005

What is reality? What is fiction? In an age when perception of the world is largely conveyed by media images, the boundaries seem to blur. This exhibition brought together 30 video works by a younger generation of artists who confront these questions.

With Doug Aitken, Francis Alÿs, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Kutlug Ataman, Andrea Bowers, Olaf Breuning, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, David Claerbout, Rineke Dijkstra, Tracey Emin, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Mona Hatoum, Mathilde ter Heijne, Jonathan Horowitz, William Kentridge, Rachel Khedoori, Mark Leckey, Christian Marclay, Bjørn Melhus, Pipilotti Rist, Anri Sala, Beat Streuli, Sam Taylor-Wood, Rosemarie Trockel and Karen Yasinsky.

Electronic media shape the youth and recreational time of a younger generation. Against this backdrop, young artists are developing a great interest in using their media works to highlight the rites, problems and identity questions of youth. Collector Ingvild Goetz finds the medium of video suited like no other to reflect our world with its social, political and artistic facets. Will we soon perceive reality only through images brought to us via the media? "No cause for concern" say the exhibition curators. With a knowing wink, they have thus exchanged the 'ä' in 'Realität' [Reality] in the exhibition title for an emoticon.

Ilinca Fechete. Memory Magnified by Memory of Course

September 5 – September 18, 2026 | AkademieGalerie

“I imagine a situation in which several people are standing together, and I am one of them. One person at a time is subjected to an electrical shock although their identity is concealed, as the electrical connection remains out of sight. All I can do is observe the facial expressions and reactions of the others to identify who has been shocked,” explains the artist Ilinca Fechete. Her new work made possible by the 2026 Media Art Award awarded by the Ingvild and Stephan Goetz Art Foundation in collaboration with the Sammlung Goetz and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, consists of an ultrasound sound system and a visual program for a film.

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.