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Eunju Hong. Somnium

September 5 – September 20, 2024

Eunju Hong, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, has been received the Media Art Award 2024 by the Kunststiftung Ingvild and Stephan Goetz. The grant includes 5,000 euros for the realization of the work Somnium and includes the exhibition in the AkademieGalerie.

Hong’s work explores the social impact of new technologies. Her project Somnium was inspired by the eponymous book by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler published in 1609. It tells the story of a boy who lives with his sorceress mother and dreams of traveling to the moon. In Somnium, considered to be one of the first science fiction novels ever, Kepler not only describes his interplanetary vision, but also the personal challenges he faced after his own mother was accused of witchcraft. Hong hast created a 2-channel video installation that focuses on the relationship of two individuals in an intimate space.

Starring Jonathan Stolze, Dita Scholl
DoP Jonas Kleinalstede
B Cam Tsvetomir Loukanov
MUA/SFX Una Ryu
Sound Design Joyul

The Media Art Award of the Kunststiftung Ingvild and Stephan Goetz is a cooperation between the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and the Sammlung Goetz. The prize is to be awarded annually 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.

Opening weekend during Various Others 2024.

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.