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7/11/2008

Two exhibitions

Museum Ludwig, Koln

Museum Ludwig will be presenting the first solo exhibition in Germany by the film maker, poet and film critic Jonas Mekas (*1922 in Lithuania). After an odyssey lasting almost five years as a forced labourer in Germany, and as a displaced person after the war, Jonas Mekas arrived in 1949 in New York. Here he dedicated himself in a whole host of ways to film, not least as an event manager who opened up an increasing number of possibilities for screening the New American Cinema - before the Anthology Film Archive, which he co-founded, could at last provide a home for the avant-garde film – from Sergei Eisenstein to Carl Theodor Dreyer – as well as for the underground film and other currents from 1970 on.

The exhibition sets out to convey the broad effect Jonas Mekas has had, his passion for film, and his enduring influence on artists and film makers of different generations, and with that on the whole history of film. Using documents, publications, film programmes and posters, and films shown on monitors, the exhibition will present the complex output of this artist, curator, writer, editor, critic and co-founder of the Anthology Film Archive. An extensive film programme will include not only a representative selection from his own filmography, but also films that became known through Mekas’ personal involvement and commitment. The screen in the cinema at Museum Ludwig will thus become a part of the exhibition area on equal footing with the gallery spaces.

The exhibition has been curated in cooperation with Jonas Mekas and backed by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes.

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Beat Poets, Hippies, Funk and Minimal Art: Art and Counterculture in San Francisco around 1968

curated by Barbara Engelbach (Museum Ludwig) together with Friederike Wappler (University of Bochum) and Hans Winkler

Forty years on from 1968, the year in which society underwent radical change, it is time to turn our minds back to the art scene in a city which was regarded in the 1960s and ´70s as the Mecca of experimental culture and lifestyles (Beat Poets, the hippie movement, counterculture). Not in New York, but at the “end of the world” on the West Coast of the USA around San Francisco, the taboos of a work-centred post-war modernism were broken in ways that allowed an intensive flow of ideas between all of the arts. Dissolving the boundaries not only engendered a politically informed counterculture, but also led to new amalgams of theatre, the visual arts, dance, literature, music and film. This situation produced new experiments by artists who were to be a major influence on international art developments from the 1960s onwards. Their art could no longer be framed in the traditional categories of the creative subject, or of the discrete artwork that reflects on its own medium. For this reason the exhibition - which through synchronous cross-section will bring alive the arts and the artists through a wealth of documents – will be accompanied by a complex program that is planned to include readings, films, dance/ theatre and new music.

The exhibition will be curated by Barbara Engelbach (Museum Ludwig) together with Friederike Wappler (University of Bochum) and Hans Winkler (freelance artist and curator).

Museum Ludwig
Bischofsgartenstrasse 1 - Koln

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