Ease and Eagerness
20 Jun - 25 Oct 2009
© Julian Rosefeldt, The Shift, 2008
Four-screen film installation filmed on super 16 mm transferred onto HD
01:13:12 min. loop
Four-screen film installation filmed on super 16 mm transferred onto HD
01:13:12 min. loop
EASE AND EAGERNESS
Modernism Today
20.06.2009 - 25.10.2009
Duncan Campbell, Marcel van Eeden, Friederike Feldmann, Sabine Hornig, Julian Rosefeldt, Tatiana Trouvé, Sascha Weidner
With this exhibition of selected contemporary art positions, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg explores how art can remain viable and relevant in the future – an issue of existential importance for a museum like ours with a contemporary art collection. Where do we go from here? As a museum that collects not just for the present day but also and above all for the future, how can we develop in the 21st century?
In their recent work, Duncan Campbell, Marcel van Eeden, Friederike Feldmann, Sabine Hornig, Julian Rosefeldt, Tatiana Trouvé and Sascha Weidner (all born between 1962 and 1976) have repeatedly proven their ability to cut through the confusing maze of current approaches by examining and developing the historicity of the traditional artistic disciplines of painting, sculpture, drawing, photography and video. Emancipating themselves from conventional art-historical genres, each of these artists seeks to delimit an open territory in which to locate their individual inventions. They use their art to question reality – often presenting it as a construction or fiction – and to set traps for perception, employing literary, sociological and theatrical narratives in addition to conceptual ones. They adapt the pathos formulae of modernism by reconstructing and deconstructing its gestures: time, architecture and space, imagelessness and placelessness, history and fiction, recollection and falsification.
Modernism Today
20.06.2009 - 25.10.2009
Duncan Campbell, Marcel van Eeden, Friederike Feldmann, Sabine Hornig, Julian Rosefeldt, Tatiana Trouvé, Sascha Weidner
With this exhibition of selected contemporary art positions, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg explores how art can remain viable and relevant in the future – an issue of existential importance for a museum like ours with a contemporary art collection. Where do we go from here? As a museum that collects not just for the present day but also and above all for the future, how can we develop in the 21st century?
In their recent work, Duncan Campbell, Marcel van Eeden, Friederike Feldmann, Sabine Hornig, Julian Rosefeldt, Tatiana Trouvé and Sascha Weidner (all born between 1962 and 1976) have repeatedly proven their ability to cut through the confusing maze of current approaches by examining and developing the historicity of the traditional artistic disciplines of painting, sculpture, drawing, photography and video. Emancipating themselves from conventional art-historical genres, each of these artists seeks to delimit an open territory in which to locate their individual inventions. They use their art to question reality – often presenting it as a construction or fiction – and to set traps for perception, employing literary, sociological and theatrical narratives in addition to conceptual ones. They adapt the pathos formulae of modernism by reconstructing and deconstructing its gestures: time, architecture and space, imagelessness and placelessness, history and fiction, recollection and falsification.