Charlottenburger Chaussee 109
13597 Berlin
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With a semantically and typographically layered German
title, which roughly translates to “Inter/Penetration: The Uncanniness
of Seeing”, it explores complementary pairs, as found, for example, in
the various definitions of penetration (durchdringen), which can mean
not only comprehend but also probe or scrutinise, among other things.
Against this background, the exhibition also considers the relationship
between the familiar (heimlich) and the mysterious (unheimlich), which
psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud discussed in his 1919 essay “The Uncanny”
(“Das Unheimliche”).
title, which roughly translates to “Inter/Penetration: The Uncanniness
of Seeing”, it explores complementary pairs, as found, for example, in
the various definitions of penetration (durchdringen), which can mean
not only comprehend but also probe or scrutinise, among other things.
Against this background, the exhibition also considers the relationship
between the familiar (heimlich) and the mysterious (unheimlich), which
psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud discussed in his 1919 essay “The Uncanny”
(“Das Unheimliche”).
Image gallery
The first part of the exhibition, with works by Gerhard Altenbourg,
Ingeborg Hunzinger, Max Uhlig and Rolf Szymanski, among others, hinders
habitual ways of seeing: Visitors are denied the usual practice of
approaching the artworks, and the self-evident or familiar aspects of
individual works are presented in a new way.
In the second part, the artist Michael Müller increasingly adopts the role of the
artist, responding to the works of the Kunstsammlung der Berliner
Volksbank via his artworks, scrutinising it by aesthetic means. Müller
makes it impossible to pigeonhole artists and works according to
conventional aesthetic, stylistic, historical and substantive
categories. Instead, he creates a series of independent narratives in
which two works are juxtaposed and brought into dialogue.
Additional information
Participating artists
Armando
Roger Ballen
Hans Bellmer
Asger Carlsen
Rolf Faber
Galli
René Graetz
Hans-Hendrik Grimmling
Martin Heinig
Hirschvogel
Ingeborg Hunzinger
Max Kaminski
Michael Müller
Stefan Schröter
Rolf Szymanski
Werner Tübke
Max Uhlig.
Gerhard Altenbourg
