Into Me / Out of Me
dal 24/11/2006 al 31/1/2007
Segnalato da
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Marina Abramovic
Vito Acconci
Matthew Barney
Patty Chang
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Douglas Gordon
Mona Hatoum
Robert Mapplethorpe
Ana Mendieta
Paul McCarthy
John Miller
Frank Moore
Pipilotti Rist
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Andy Warhol
Lawrence Weiner
Klaus Biesenbach
24/11/2006
Into Me / Out of Me
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
The show highlights the literal and metaphorical ways that humans interact with each other, themselves and material matter. The focus is on three primordial and radical relationships between the internal and the external: metabolism, reproduction and violence. Among the more than 130 international artists in the exhibition are Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Matthew Barney, Patty Chang, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Robert Mapplethorpe etc.
Group exhibition
Curated by Klaus Biesenbach
From November 26, 2006 through February, 2007, KW Institute for Contemporary Art in
Berlin presents Into Me / Out of Me, a group exhibition about the imagined,
descriptive, and performative act of the passing into, through, and out of the human
body.
Curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Into Me / Out of Me is co-organized by KW Institute for
Contemporary Art, Berlin and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. The exhibition
received wide recognition when on view at P.S.1 from June 25 to September 25, 2006.
Spanning over forty years and featuring an international group of artists, Into Me /
Out of Me employs a wide range of media. The exhibition highlights the literal and
metaphorical ways that humans interact with each other, themselves, and material
matter. The focus is on three primordial and radical relationships between the
internal and the external: metabolism (eating, drinking, excreting…), reproduction
(intercourse, birth…), and violence (shooting, impaling, perforation…). These
complex vital exchanges are illuminated through mythological confrontations,
ritualized practices, and self-explorations. The physicality, permeability and
fragility of the body has been explored to represent the human condition in
contemporary life and art over the past forty years.
Among the more than 130 international artists in the exhibition are Marina
Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Matthew Barney, Patty Chang, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas
Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ana Mendieta, Paul McCarthy, John Miller,
Frank Moore, Pipilotti Rist, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Andy Warhol, and Lawrence Weiner.
A fully illustrated publication by KW and P.S.1 in German and English (approx. 300
pages, 250 colour illustrations, 24 x 30 cm, paperback, design by Studio Signum)
will be available early 2007.
The exhibition Into Me / Out of Me is funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes/German
Federal Cultural Foundation.
The realization of the project takes place with the friendly support of Dornbracht
Culture Projects and the Friends of KW Institute for Contemporary Art.
Special thanks to Rosa and Gilberto Sandretto.
Thanks to Celine and Heiner Bastian
Opening: November 25, 2006, 5 - 9 pm
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststr. 69 - Berlin