Self Performance. Jürgen Klauke and Cindy Sherman from Sammlung Goetz
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The Neues Museum Weimar presented photographic self-representations of Cologne artist Jürgen Klauke and New York artist Cindy Sherman in a fascinating dialogue.
Neues Museum Weimar, Weimar
The similarities between the artistic strategies of Jürgen Klauke and Cindy Sherman are striking. Both artists work primarily with photographs of themselves in staged situations, situations in which they grapple with different roles and images. Both work simultaneously as actors, directors, designers and photographers. While Sherman uses elaborate costumes to reference historical art and film models and continually tries out new changes of identity, Klauke always remains the provocative player of himself. Featuring works from the holdings of Sammlung Goetz, the exhibition Self Performance reveals the commonalities and differences between the two protagonists.
Twenty photographic works made between 1971 and 1998 provided a succinct overview of Jürgen Klauke's artistic development. In addition to his well-known photographic sequences, the exhibition included a group of watercolors and several video documentaries about his performances and actions. Cindy Sherman was represented with thirty photographs taken over a period of thirty years. These included the complete series Bus Riders (1976) as well as a selection from her early black and white series Untitled (Film Stills) (1977–1980), which catapulted the American artist to international fame.
Jürgen Klauke – Cindy Sherman
80 pages, 93 ill., softcover
German/English
1994, Kunstverlag Ingvild Goetz GmbH, Hamburg
ISBN 3-89322-674-5
