GÜNTHER FÖRG, JEFF KOONS, INGE MAHN
Balance (group show)
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
10 June – 9 October 2022
offline Works by Günther Förg, Jeff Koons and Inge Mahn are included in the group exhibition Balance, which will be on view at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin from 10 June until 9 October 2022.
Incorporating a range of styles and movements include Minimal Art, Transavanguardia, Pop Art and contemporary art, the exhibition presents works dealing with individual and societal struggles to attain balance, harmony and stability. At the same time, these works shwo how transient balance is, once it has been attained. The exhibition Balance divides the depiction of these dwindling certainties into five thematic sections: the futility of longing for balance, the perception of balance, the tension inherent in interpersonal balancing acts, the imbalance in the relationship between humans and nature, and lastly, the balancing of individual and societal expectations in economic contexts.
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart
GÜNTHER FÖRG
Legacy of Modernism (solo show)
CAC Málaga
15 March – 25 May 2024
The CAC Málaga presents Legacy of Modernism, a solo exhibition of work by Günther Förg. Focusing on the artist’s minimalist body of work, the exhibition brings together 29 paintings dated between 1987 and 2004, and includes two large-format paintings, works on paper and lead paintings. The exhibition responds to the museum’s modern interior, reflecting Förg’s major interest in architecture.
CAC Málaga
INGE MAHN et al.
In Its Own Shadow (group show)
Arter, Istanbul
19 October 2023 – 7 April 2024
Work by Inge Mahn is on view in a group exhibition at Arter, Istanbul. Drawn from the Arter Collection and comprising works by 25 artists, In Its Own Shadow is conceived around thematic dualities such as inside and outside, public and private, presence and absence, memory and oblivion, void and body; and seeks out the grey areas that arise from the interplay between these notions.
Arter
INGE MAHN
Inge Mahn (solo show)
Stiftung zur Förderung zeitgenössischer Kunst in Weidingen
15 July – 27 August 2023
Stiftung zur Förderung zeitgenössischer Kunst in Weidingen will host a solo exhibition of Inge Mahn, presenting a never-before-seen work from 2023 as well as a selection of drawings in the Bibliothek Günther Förg. Spanning more than five decades, Inge Mahn's work examines the poetic potential of everyday objects by removing them from their conventional sphere of activity and translating them into a new sculptural language.
Kunst in Weidingen
JEFF KOONS
Dugong, 2022 (installation)
Commissioned by Qatar Museums, Qatar
A new public installation by Jeff Koons has been unveiled at Al Masrah Park in Doha’s Corniche. Made of polychromed mirror-polished stainless-steel, and stretching over 32-meters longand 24-meters heigh, the monumental sculpture depicts a dugong propped up on an ocean wave. The marine mammal has inhabited the waters surrounding Qatar’s peninsula for thousands of years.
Dugong, 2022, is the latest addition to a series of major art projects commissioned by Qatar Museums in the lead up to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, including Ernesto Neto’s Slug Turtle, TemplEarth, 2022.
INGE MAHN
Stand und Verfassung
A project by Inge Mahn and Vlado Velkov
A Christmas tree is also affected by the lockdown in Brandenburg. It is located on Lake Wolziger near Funkenmühle and will remain there for the foreseeable future. This socially distant Christmas tree by Inge Mahn and Vlado Velkov floats, lonely, on a raft on top of cold water. Without family and friends, he turns on his axis again and again and dances with his reflection. For the small community on the shore that helped with the production, the tree evolved into a social project that brings people back together, brings joy and instills hope. The work, titled Stand und Verfassung (Status and Constitution), is on view until the end of the lockdown, from the shore in Funkenmühle.
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