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7/5/2013

HEIMsuchung

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn

Artists: Horst Ademeit, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, John Bock, Gregory Crewdson, Jonas Dahlberg, Thomas Demand, Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil, Johannes Gehrke, Christian Haake, Stephan Huber, Susanne Kutter, Chris Larson, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, Stephan Mörsch, Hans Op de Beeck, Alexandra Ranner, Werner Reiterer, Reynold Reynolds & Patrick Jolley, Michael H. Rohde, Monika Sosnowska, Erwin Wurm

The exhibition “HEIMsuchung” is about the transition from a formerly intimidating exterior to an intimidating interior and the parallelization between destabilized subjects and unstable spaces. The title “HEIMsuchung” already indicates the paradoxical ambivalence of its theme: In an increasing awareness of a home’s tenuousness, an abode to come home to has now become a threat, the latent anti-homeyness of an only superficially safeguarded refuge. The ego, which can only think systematically as an Other, increasingly experiences the places that represent his/her abode by the manner of their psychic overload, as manifestations of a mental destabilization.

In an internationally designed selection of 21 contemporary positions, Kunstmuseum Bonn shows a broad range of works that react to a world in which it is more difficult than ever to draw the dividing line between inside and outside. The individual has lost faith in himself/herself and the original function of his/her home as shelter and refuge, in that it has more and more taken on the character of a stage-set hull. For a world that has become vulnerable by way of its permanent interlacing of a subjectively insecure inmost with an uncontrollable outermost, art devises claustrophobic, dysfunctional, latently or openly uncanny images that primarily see interiors as a “cause of mental disorder”.

Within the Kunstmuseum’s exhibition program, “HEIMsuchung – Uncanny Spaces in Contemporary Art” thus takes its place in a series of prominent thematic exhibitions with which the museum has over these past years examined chiefly existential questions, including “Gehen Bleiben” (2007/08) and “Ferne Nähe” (2009). The tour through the exhibition follows a presentation that shifts between the levels of the image (film and photography), model situations, and specially built walk-in spaces. These allow the visitors to immerse themselves in altered, claustrophobic and uncanny rooms, just as it also repeatedly raises them to the level of distanced observation via a confrontation with models as well as with cinematic and photographic works.

Catalogue: The exhibition will be augmented by a copious catalogue that, along with reproductions of the works, encompasses articles on the artists and essays by Volker Adolphs, Stephan Berg and Stephan Günzel.

Supported by: Stiftung Kunst der Sparkasse in Bonn | Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen | Nicola und Thomas Weppelmann, Bonn

Opening: Wednesday, 8 May 2013, 8 p.m.

KUNSTMUSEUM BONN
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 2 - 53113 Bonn
Tues – Sun 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Wed. 11 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Admission
1-day ticket regular€ 7,00 reduced€ 3,50
Group ticket
10+ people, per ticket regular€ 5,60 reduced€ 2,80
Family ticket regular€ 14,00
Annual ticket regular€ 40,00 reduced€ 20,00

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