Kostas Murkudis
dal 15/7/2015 al 13/2/2016
Segnalato da
15/7/2015
Kostas Murkudis
MMK - Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
At Close Range. With this project, the MMK is continuing and broadening its programmatic focus on the borderlands between the visual arts and fashion. The exhibition architecture and displays is designed by the artist Carsten Nicolai.
The MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main will stage the first comprehensive museum exhibition of the work of Kostas Murkudis, one of the most well-known fashion designers in the world today.
With this exhibition project, the MMK is continuing and broadening its programmatic focus on the borderlands between the visual arts and fashion. The exhibition architecture and displays will be designed by the German artist Carsten Nicolai.
In 2013, Kostas Murkudis donated large parts of his archive as well as original designs and prototypes to three international museum collections: the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, the Palais Galliera – Musée de la mode de la ville de Paris, and the Kyoto Costume Institute, Japan. His gift to the MMK marks the point of departure for the extensive show at the MMK 2.
Artistic outlooks and ways of working have had a decisive influence on Murkudis’s work. This circumstance is manifest particularly in his sculptural approach, his investigation of three-dimensional materials, his creative praxis, but also in the presentation of his designs in a manner distinctly different from the ordinary fashion show. By addressing social, sculptural and participatory issues, he changes our conceptions and perceptions of the medium of fashion. Comprehensive research and perceivable architectural influences are further aspects that permeate his oeuvre.
The exhibition will showcase Murkudis’s work in selected collections, workgroups and prototypes. With the aid of additional material, it will also take a more in-depth look at several aspects of his œuvre, allowing visitors literally to “experience” it within the framework of various presentation forms.
For the exhibition at the MMK, Kostas Murkudis will also examine the relationships between his designs and prominent works from the museum’s holdings, thus curating a presentation of the collection. The latter will encompass concepts and display forms, performance, the ready-made, material aesthetics and many other phenomena and approaches with which artists have concerned themselves since the 1960s. Artistic oeuvres in which textiles play an important role will moreover enter into dialogue with Murkudis’s collections and individual pieces.
Exhibition design by Carsten Nicolai and the architect Aaron Werbick.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive monograph on Kostas Murkudis published by Prestel.
Kostas Murkudis in conversation with Julia Voss
Tuesday, 1 December, 7 pm at the MMK 2
Press contact:
Christina Henneke Head of Communication phone +49 69 21237761 christina.henneke@stadt-frankfurt.de
Daniela Denninger - Julia Haecker phone +49 69 21240571 fax +49 69 21237882 presse.mmk@stadt-frankfurt.de
Press conference: Thursday, 16 July 2015, 11am
Opening: Thursday 16 July 2015, 8 pm
Following the opening reception we will celebrate a summer party with Dj hell at the MMK 2.
MMK 2 of the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main
Taunustor 1 60310 Frankfurt am Main
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10am–6pm,
Wednesday 10am–8pm