TRUE STORIES: A SHOW RELATED TO AN ERA - THE EIGHTIES: PART I
Curated by Peter Pakesch. 14 September – 27 October 2018.
Artists: Mirosław Bałka, Herbert Brandl,
Werner Büttner, Clegg & Guttmann, Mathis Esterhazy, Günther Förg,
Isa Genzken, Robert Gober, Félix González-Torres, Georg Herold, Axel
Hütte, Cristina Iglesias, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons,
Liz Larner, Zoe Leonard, Inge Mahn, Meuser, Reinhard Mucha, Cady Noland,
Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen, Richard Prince, Didi Sattmann, Julian
Schnabel, Wilhelm Schürmann, Cindy Sherman, Mariella Simoni, Thomas
Struth, Rosemarie Trockel, Franz West, Terry Winters, Christopher Wool,
Otto Zitko, Heimo Zobernig
Berlin: Goethestraße 2/3
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| True Stories. Martin Kippenberger. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Martin Kippenberger - detail. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Albert Oehlen. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Werner Büttner (L,C). Markus Oehlen (R). Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Martin Kippenberger. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Albert Oehlen. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Albert Oehlen - detail. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Albert Oehlen (L,C). Georg Herold (R). Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Albert Oehlen. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Albert Oehlen - detail. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Richard Prince. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Richard Prince - detail. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Herbert Brandl. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Julian Schnabel. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Julian Schnabel - detail. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Georg Herold - detail. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Georg Herold. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Günther Förg. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Christopher Wool and Richard Prince. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Christopher Wool. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Richard Prince. Herbert Brandl. Terry Winters. Galerie Max Hetzler |
Press Release: Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to announce the group show True Stories. A Show Related to an Era – The Eighties,
curated by Peter Pakesch. The show includes works by Mirosław Bałka,
Herbert Brandl, Werner Büttner, Clegg & Guttmann, Mathis Esterhazy,
Günther Förg, Isa Genzken, Robert Gober, Félix González-Torres, Georg
Herold, Axel Hütte, Cristina Iglesias, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger,
Jeff Koons, Liz Larner, Zoe Leonard, Inge Mahn, Meuser, Reinhard Mucha,
Cady Noland, Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen, Richard Prince, Didi
Sattmann, Julian Schnabel, Wilhelm Schürmann, Cindy Sherman, Mariella
Simoni, Thomas Struth, Rosemarie Trockel, Franz West, Terry Winters,
Christopher Wool, Otto Zitko, Heimo Zobernig and will take place both at
Goethestraße 2/3 and our temporary space at Kurfürstendamm 213.
Seen
from today’s perspective, during this decade, the way art would
function in society has changed largely. Within the history of the late
20th Century, the very two years 1968 and 1989 are truly significant for
politics as well as for culture. One signifies the height of the Cold
War and the departure to new freedoms, the other one the end of this
Cold War and the dawn of a new world order (that still is not in place
yet).
In a certain reading of Western culture, visual art, as
well as other fields of the cultural domain, have come to a certain end
by the 1960ties - the end of the Modern. Aesthetics and politics went
alongside with this verdict. After some confusion, some years later,
artists on both sides of the Atlantic would get a lot of satisfaction by
acting against all consequences of history. The end of the ‘End of Art’
around 1980 was experienced as a liberation at least as strong as the
move to freedom more than a decade before. The world was to change in an
unexpected way. The artist as a strong individual in a world where an
individual identity has been revealed as obsolete: that contradiction
became enormously productive, creating new strategies and attitudes for
artistic challenges.
The exhibition intends to present
significant positions of that time and how they were shown in galleries
between New York and Los Angeles on one side, as well as Cologne and
Vienna on the other side. Those four cities of intellectual importance
experienced a growing exchange during that period.
Having always
been in the focus of post-war art as the supreme centre where things
would ‘happen’, New York looked more and more to Cologne, Germany’s
centre of the artistic production and discourse, of the gallery world
and collecting. This glance was returned with even larger intensity, as
American and German attention would also drift further down east to the
long dormant capital Vienna, which started to move out of the shadow of
the Iron Curtain, in anticipation of the overthrow that changed the
world at the end of the decade. The regard would also point further west
in the direction of California, mainly to Los Angeles, which became
more and more an important contributor, independent from New York and
very specific in its way to deal with either the American as well as the
European opposites.
Thus the show would link the American
centers, Los Angeles in the West and New York in the East, with the two
European hotspots Cologne and Vienna, trying to understand and to
demonstrate what was new and what would prove to be revolutionary for
the way art developed in the future decades leading into the 21st
century.
– Peter Pakesch, 2018
Berlin: Kurfürstendamm 213.
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| True Stories. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Markus Oehlen (R). Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Herbert Brandl. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Herbert Brandl (detail). Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Liz Larner. Mariella Simoni. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Liz Larner. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Herbert Brandl (L). Markus Oehlen (R). Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Zoe Leonard (L). Franz West. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Franz West (rear). Franz West (wall). Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Mike Kelley. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Mike Kelley. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Mike Kelley. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Meuser. Galerie Max Hetzler |
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| True Stories. Inge Mahn (L). Zoe Leonard (R). Galerie Max Hetzler |
