Media Art Award 2024 of the Kunststiftung Ingvild und Stephan Goetz.
Eunju Hong’s work explores the social impact of new technologies. Her project Somnium was inspired by the eponymous book by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler published in 1609. It tells the story of a boy who lives with his sorceress mother and dreams of traveling to the moon. In Somnium, considered to be one of the first science fiction novels ever, Kepler not only describes his interplanetary vision, but also the personal challenges he faced after his own mother was accused of witchcraft. Hong hast created a 2-channel video installation that focuses on the relationship of two individuals in an intimate space.

InstantPublicCommunityResonator at Temporary Contemporary

Opening with the performance "Instant Community" by Daniel Knorr (approx. 5:30pm) 

The second exhibition of the TEMPORARY CONTEMPORARY PROJECT shows a site-specific dialog of selected work series by Nevin Aladağ and Daniel Knorr.

Do things have to change, or just our view of them? Has our view of reality changed or are we only now recognizing things as they really are?
 
Roland Uphoff, a lawyer from Bonn, has been passionately collecting modern and contemporary art for three decades and repeatedly encounters this question. Initially, he preferred Pop Art artists. Recently, however, his focus has shifted to young, female artists.
 
This exhibition focuses on works by female artists who deal with outdated images of women and current socio-political issues. From Carole Schneemann and Valie Export to Ulrike Rosenbach and the young, politically committed artists Cornelia Renz and Selja Kameric, a broad spectrum of critical positions will be presented.

Come over for a long free&easy with Radio 80000! Free entry to all our exhibitions starts at 6 pm. From 7 pm to 10 pm there willl be drinks and music from DJs of Radio 80000.

Opening: ERES Foundation, 5 Sep, 7-10 pm
Outstanding! These are fifteen graduates of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts who graduated in 2024 and have received prizes and funding from various institutions. The popular group show known as the Debutante Exhibition is presented by the Academy of Fine Arts. We are delighted to be able to host it this year.
One step beyond provides a rousing insight into current artistic forms of expression, concepts and ideas. As a foundation at the interface of natural science and art, we are particularly pleased to see how many positions deal with natural phenomena and scientific contexts - from geophysics to ornithology and astronomy.  Provocative works that challenge us to engage with recent history are combined with ecstatic, psychedelic colour spaces that celebrate human resilience after catastrophe and devastation in the footsteps of Arthur Rimbaud.
We will be hearing more from these artists ...

Opening of ‘Dirty Care’ – a transdisciplinary format with international FLINTA* artists that explores the spectrum of protection.

Silvia Gardini projects corporate compliance systems onto the art world, where reporting of transgressive behavior is stifled by the precarious socioeconomic position of artists. Silvia Gardini offers confidential consultations for visitors in 6 min. time units as used at law firms.

WISH MOPBP is a workshop-based performance with a group of FLINTA* residents over the age of 50 with experience related to cleaning and the use of the voice, at a professional and/or amateur level. Starting from the figure of the "cleaner" and the ergonomics of the objects typically associated with housekeeping, the project will explore the invisible work and the secondary female roles related to protection and the reappropriation of fear.

Opening 4 – 9 pm

For the exhibition vacancy, six borrowed bunk beds will be set up in space n.n.. In them, 12 artists from Vienna are invited to show their artworks. Each artist will exhibit during the day in the bed in which they can potentially sleep at night. In this way, works, artists and audience come together in an interplay between a pragmatic solution to the accommodation shortage in Munich and exhibition design with a bed display.
curated by Sebastian Quast

nouveaux deuxdeux is pleased to invite the artist Arang Choi for a solo show in collaboration with gallery Elektrohalle Rhomberg. Arang Choi (1992 born in Seoul, Korea) finds her inspiration for her paintings in documentaries about nature, landscape and animals paired with her own observations, which the artist then processes directly into oil paintings, thus creating her own fantastic universe. At Arang Choi’s side is the alter ego she has named Emulb, a fluid creature whose names means “flower” in reversed German. A hybrid form somewhere between animal, human, fantasy, botanical creation, landscape and nature, which is constantly evolving and serves the artist as a mediator to make her imagination visible. As an infinite dream her artistic practice is a crossroad between mystical fiction and reality.
 
 

 
 
NEBYULA is hosting Jonas Höschl and EIGEN+ART Lab (Berlin) for a parallel presentation in our front gallery and courtyard as part of Various Others. Jonas Höschl will premiere a new video work titled “Why Are You Crying?” within a specially developed mobile presentation space. Höschl's work raises questions about the critical potential of art and whether this potential can be diminished within the art market.
Additionally, at the invitation of EIGEN+ART Lab and Jonas Höschl, South African artists Thandiwe Msebenzi, Sethembile Msezane, and Cazlynne Peffer will show the exhibition “Resilience: Pleasure and Self-Care in a Precarious World”, which challenges societal norms, navigates the complexities of contemporary life, and explores the transformative potential of self-care as a form of resistance.
 

During the show the “space n.n.” will be transformed into a “hostel n.n.”, to which 12 Viennese artists have been invited. Six bunk beds will be placed in the front room of the space, which will serve as night quarters at night and as an exhibition display during the day. Each artist exhibits in the bed in which he/she sleeps at night. Artists to be named.

Walter Storms Galerie presents the French painter Jean-Marc Bustamante as part of Various Others 2024. Many people know Bustamante from his time as Professor of Painting at the Munich Art Academy from 2010 – 2016. He then worked as Director of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 2015-2018. He took part in documenta VIII, IX and X and designed the French pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2000. Today, Bustamante lives in Geneva and maintains a large studio there. He is represented there by Galerie Mezzanin. For our current exhibition, Bustamante has created a new series of “Paintings for Munich”. On a grainy plaster base, he creates impasto, almost transparent marks, enigmatic graphic forms, vegetative elements that tell of nature and life.

You are cordially invited to the opening of the exhibition.

Knust Kunz Gallery Editions is pleased to present the exhibition "Un mondo che muore" by Olaf Nicolai. Working with language and texts plays an important role in Olaf Nicolai's extensive oeuvre. This is also the case in the four sheets of the edition "Un mondo che muore", which are at the centre of the exhibition.

Teresa Kutala Firmino is a multimedia artist, based in Johannesburg, working with paint, photography and performance.
In the works shown in this exhibition she follows the economy of intimacy in a partriarchal society and the resulting consequences. Firmino explores different methods such as love potions that helped women to gain economic power, exert agency and control over their lives and relationships. She uses the aesthetics of packaged sugar, 1950s-1960s contraceptive posters and commercialized love potions to create her paintings. 

Exhibition: 6.9.2024 – 12.10.2024

Opening: ERES Projects, 6 Sep, 6-9 pm
A strange conspiratorial meeting is at the centre of Anna Hulačová's installation. The faces of the dinner guests are hidden behind white flower masks, their facial expressions are unrecognisable and it is impossible to enjoy food or drink. The table talk is derived from the title of the work: ‘Let's talk about pollination’. In hybrid images of nature, the Czech sculptor (*1984) takes questions of agricultural culture further with a view to climate change and biodiversity. Her mutating organisms are creatures of an ecosystem that has lost its balance. Hulačová formulates visions of an endangered environment and society in an idiosyncratic retro-futuristic style, alternating between hard and soft, industrially manufactured and organic materials and with references to folkloric traditions of Eastern Europe. At the end of the table talk, the chairs remain deserted, but the masks are arranged into a bone-pale, sculptural still life of flowers.

Steffen Lenk/Timo Thurner – „Works for Mount Analogue Studios“
Painter Steffen Lenk courtesy of Anke Schmidt Gallery, Cologne shows his paintings, collages and drawings which contributed for the project Mount Analogue Studios. Graphic designer and sound artist Timo Thurner produced countless videos based Lenk’s works  and sound patterns on analogue synthesizers.

Mount Analogue Studios is a concept for a fictitious recording studio that will be brought to life and operated by the Mount Analogue Collective from September 2024. On the one hand, Mount Analogue is a reference to the analogue no-cell of every musical recording and, on the other, to the analogy of the almost unattainable, which Réné Daumal (1908-1944) describes in his unfinished novel of the same name, which was published posthumously in 1952; Daumal died over his manuscript. Just as the hero of the novel sets off on a journey to Mont Analogue with the mysterious expedition leader Sogol, the collective embarks on an uncertain journey to attain the enlightenment of music.

For Various Others 2024, Sperling will present a duo exhibition featuring Dutch artist Maddy Arkesteyn (1966–2012) and gallery artist Ana Navas. Both artists are graduates of De Ateliers in Amsterdam. The exhibition will explore intergenerational artistic kinship, created in close collaboration with the Estate of Maddy Arkesteyn.

Paulina Caspari is pleased to invite you to the opening.
Opening of the exhibition during Various Others, on 6th September, from 6 - 9 pm.

We participate in nature and nature participates in us: in her art practice, Sophia Mainka has always been open to strange encounters with animals, plants and minerals. The work created during her stay at the Fondation Fiminco in Paris deals with the coexistence of different species within an urban space. Parrots fly across the city, a whale swims up the Seine and dogs walk on paved streets. Mainka responds ethologically, allowing the animal encounter to affect the way she acts.
“Notes on Roommates” is a series of video sculptures Mainka first presented at the residency, restaged at GiG Munich. To produce her fictitious gathering of animals, she builds a room for them: industrial material is bent into organic shapes and upholstered with fabrics featuring botanical patterns. Here we see her become dog, her painted fists becoming paws; we see her as the whale, in the murky river water, rising up to breathe.

Georg Haberler presents a series of new mixed-media works that create worlds in a playful, peculiar way through striking compositions that seem to collapse but always maintain their balance. Animals, objects and architectural elements interact in Haberler's distinctive visual language, embroidered with different coloured threads on unprimed canvas. Haberler was born in Graz in 1985 and currently lives and works in Vienna. His work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions throughout Europe, including in Austria, Germany, Italy, France, Belgium and Denmark. He has received numerous scholarships, including the Styrian State Prize for Contemporary Visual Arts 2021. From April to June 2024, Haberler took part in the artist residency programme of the Foundation for Contemporary Art - Ghana.

max goelitz is pleased to invite the artists Jenna Sutela and Pamela Rosenkranz in collaboration with gallery Sprüth Magers to present an exhibition that literally brings together humans and more-than-humans. At the core of dirt is the living installation "Vermi Cell" by Jenna Sutela, a compost composed of soil, seedlings and earthworms, which continues to develop during the exhibition period while generating energy for a sound system. Pamela Rosenkranz's works enter into a dialog with this organism, meditating on the idea of "nature" through the human view of it. Both artists seek to dissolve the boundary between the organic and the synthetic. Furthermore, the exhibition questions the illusion that everything can or should always be readily available to us.

nouveaux deuxdeux is pleased to invite the artist Arang Choi for a solo show in collaboration with gallery Elektrohalle Rhomberg. Arang Choi (1992 born in Seoul, Korea) finds her inspiration for her paintings in documentaries about nature, landscape and animals paired with her own observations, which the artist then processes directly into oil paintings, thus creating her own fantastic universe. At Arang Choi’s side is the alter ego she has named Emulb, a fluid creature whose names means “flower” in reversed German. A hybrid form somewhere between animal, human, fantasy, botanical creation, landscape and nature, which is constantly evolving and serves the artist as a mediator to make her imagination visible. As an infinite dream her artistic practice is a crossroad between mystical fiction and reality.

On the occasion of Various Others 2024 Britta Rettberg presents a collaborative exhibition project by Lennart Lahuis and Paul Valentin in cooperation with Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague.
In archaeology, past civilizations are studied based on their material remains. The carefully recovered artifacts are measured, mapped, and documented. This scientific approach aims to reconstruct a comprehensive picture of past civilizations and to understand how they contributed to the development of today's society. However, challenges arise when excavated items cannot be easily classified and when the found objects seem to be out of place in time. In their first joint exhibition, "Solid Currents," Dutch artist Lennart Lahuis and Munich-based artist Paul Valentin explore questions of temporality and examine the recontextualization of objects.

BRITTA RETTBERG presents the solo exhibition "Unlikely Outcomes. A feast for the eyes, regales us with stories" by Nikolas Ventourakis (Athens/London) in collaboration with Callirrhoë, Athens in the project space "park".
"Unlikely Outcomes" is an ongoing series that intricately blends photographs and videos, showcasing Ventourakis' ability to transcend traditional photography. His practice is inherently archival, capturing the fluid transformation of an image from its initial creation to its eventual perception. This process invites viewers to reflect on how the memory of a photograph morphs over time.

"Partly Cloudy or Partly Sunny" marks Flaka Haliti's second solo show at the gallery, continuing her exploration of the “demilitarization of aesthetics.” Haliti’s new body of work embodies this distinctive intersection. Rooted in her experiences following the Kosovo War and the visual impact of NATO’s military presence during peacekeeping efforts, Haliti critiques how militarism continues to shape global narratives of power and dominance. Despite evolving rhetoric on “empire,” the persistent use of military power to assert dominance remains unchanged. Haliti challenges this enduring link between aesthetics and warfare, questioning its impact on contemporary societies. Through her unique artistic perspective, she aims to inspire fresh narratives that challenge prevailing myths, exploring visual, aesthetic, and linguistic possibilities for a collective future.
Opening 06.09., 6–9 pm

Time without future is consolidated with ordered material from self-landscapes and facets of memory. On copper-embossed backgrounds, they are exposed to the external environment until they reach the limits of endurance. Chemical processes are set in motion – stopped – mechanically processed, compressed further. The outer layering is reminiscent of the texture of zone surfaces and triggers the horizon of memory. Is this horizon already an escape from unambiguity? Or the expansion of depth from material to content? Simulations of conflicts can be found in compressed landscapes as well as self-portraits with a tendency towards isolation. No silencing – just distance.

On the occasion of Various Others 2024, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle invited the gallery Meyer Riegger to collaborate for a duo show with Sheila Hicks and Katinka Bock. The two artists come from different generations and artistic contexts, but together their works do create a poetic dialogue. Using an abstract formal language, both women create strong sculptural settings that scrutinise positions in space. While the American artist Hicks (*1934), who has lived in Paris since 1964, works with colourful, soft textiles, including wool, linen, silk and pigmented acrylic fibres, which she knots, weaves or spins to create new forms, Frankfurt born artist Katinka Bock (*1976) – who, as Hicks, lives in Paris, but also in Berlin – uses clay, natural and found materials as well as bronze to create her sculptures and installations.

Exhibition: 6.9.2024 – 12.10.2024

Opening night!

Helene Appel (*1976, Karlsruhe) detaches familiar things from their domestic surroundings and places natural phenomena at the center of her paintings. In a variety of formats, from small to large, the works seem so tangible and real that it seems almost impossible to escape their presence. This is precisely what determines Helene Appel’s illusionistic paintings on raw, untreated linen: they transport the viewer into familiar, often accidental situations involving touch, smell or taste, thus evoking immediate associations with the object. The tactile quality of the works even tempts the viewer to touch them, so unlikely is it that what they are looking at is actually painting on canvas. Each object is presented outside of its original context, which in turn draws all attention to the details.
In her third solo exhibition "Try-Outs" at Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, new visual elements will assert themselves as images.

On the occasion of VO, the collector Markus Michalke has invited the Berlin artist and curator Michael Müller to show his own works and to present the main venue of his curatorial work in Berlin - the Kunstsæle. The exhibition brings together works from 1985 to the present day - a concentrated distillation of his conceptual approach to painting.
All the works were created over a long period of time and the artist returned to them again and again in order to expand, reconceptualize and reduce them. The painterly investigations range from the question of the relationship between two clashing colors and the influence of various painting tools such as fingers, squeegees, brushes, rags and sponges on the creative process to the processing of the complex relationships between motif, image, image carrier and the painting as a physical object. And why does perspective arise even in abstract drawings through the partial superimposition of amorphous forms?

The Espace Louis Vuitton München is pleased to invite you to extended opening hours of the exhibition RINEKE DIJKSTRA. THE KRAZY HOUSE from 7-9pm.

The exhibition "Key Operators. Weaving and coding as languages of feminist historiography" and its accompanying program of events focus on the links between feminized labor, technological advancements, and their associated languages. The systems inscribed in weaving and coding serve as a point of departure for devising alternative ways of looking at gender and work. The exhibition brings together an intergenerational group of artists—encompassing newly conceived as well as historical works—that engage with the concept of weaving and its significance for technological developments, both metaphorically and structurally. Exhibition with Elsi Giauque, Johanna Gonschorek, Michèle Graf & Selina Grüter, Pati Hill, Charlotte Johannesson, Lotus L. Kang, Alison Knowles, Beryl Korot, James Tilly Matthews, Katrin Mayer, Johannes Porsch, Radical Software, Bea Schlingelhoff, Marilou Schultz, Johanna Schütz-Wolff, Iris Touliatou

The communication of an internal system and the outside world. The organization of a universe of objects. Composting and regenerating. An over and an under. A top floor, a staircase and a bottom floor. Things that are circular or make circular imprints. Things that flow from one thing into the next. Openings without doors and windows with curtains. Liquid evaporating and becoming something new. Inputs and outputs. Electrical signals cycle thru coil around magnet and make a sound. Oscillation from left to right. Emotional balance and emotional imbalance. Stalagmites and stalactites almost touch. Subterranean networks connecting trees to fungi. My first lucid dream - I made tea with my scalp. Fatbergs and sewage systems. Skin that burns and sheds. The transfer of bacteria through sneezing or the exchange of ideas by speaking. The swallowing of words or words that have to be digested. 

The exhibition Tracing Echoes. From Westerwald to Rio Tinto takes us on a journey through time, from the industrial to the digital revolution, in search of traces of images from the past that continue to resonate with us today and point to the future.
The multidisciplinary works of Anne Quirynen and Sandra Schäfer lead us from the Minas de Riotinto in Spain, one of the oldest copper mines in the world, through Westerwald, Germany, where August Sander initiated his photographic project Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts (People of the Twentieth Century), to the planet Mars.
In combining both documentary and technically edited images the artists create a visual narrative about the influence of technology and capitalism on agriculture and science as well as their depiction. In the process, they trace the subtle path and hidden facets of (gender) inequality, the effects of artificial intelligence on physical labor, and questions of social justice.

Celebrating VARIOUS OTHERS 2024 and all its participating artists, members, partners, guests and friends in full swing, Kunstverein München is hosting the official VO party. Meet and mingle with like-minded people and dance the night away with DJ C. Comberti,  DJ Ebhardy  and Lily Tischer.

For the opening weekend of “Various Others”, Museum Brandhorst invites you to a breakfast vernissage. The third “Flag Commission” by Lily van der Stokker, the intervention “no: tongue breaks and thin fire is racing under skin” by Maria VMier and the exhibition “Andy Warhol & Keith Haring: Party of Life” will be on show.

For the first time, works by the New York and Munich-based artists Maria VMier are being presented at the same time in the sister museums Pinakothek der Moderne and Museum Brandhorst: As part of ‘Walk the Line’ under the title ‘TURMOIL. Hans Hartung and Maria VMier’ at the Pinakothek der Moderne, two large-format, gestural works on paper by VMier can be seen in dialogue with works by Hartung. At Museum Brandhorst, a context-specific intervention by VMier occupies the centre of Cy Twombly's ‘Rosensaal‘. In this project entitled ‘no: tongue breaks and thin fire is racing under skin’, they interweave their painterly and sculptural practice with collaborative strategies.
Curators Franziska Linhardt and Judith Csiki will guide you through the two presentations in a dialogue that spans the two buildings. 
The tour begins in Cy Twombly's ‘Rosensaal‘ at the Museum Brandhorst and ends in Room 24 in the Pinakothek der Moderne.

The publication "Springs" by Ben K. Voss contains a collection of watercolors made along the shores of Lake Michigan in July of 2023: The lake presented itself anew with the arrival of each day. Wild waves cascaded at a diagonal and then, quietly, the water’s surface became a mirror. Days marked moods and energies. Tall wavering pines dotted the coastline as light filtered in through shapes and forms. The publication reflects on this interplay of change and repetition and invites the viewer to uncover nuances and details with each viewing.
About the publisher:
Mark Pezinger Books, a Vienna-based publisher of artist books, is run by graphic designer Astrid Seme and artist Thomas Geiger. On the occasion of the book launch, they will present a selection of their publications that deal with experimental and conceptual approaches. Come along and take a look at the collection! Come by and browse the books.

The artists of the "Various Others" exhibitions (Lennart Lahuis & Paul Valentin / Nikolas Ventourakis @park) will guide you through the gallery. We also invite you to a late brunch / early lunch with pretzels, Obazda and non-alcoholic beer. 

In this casual walking lecture, participants will learn about select invasive species found along the Isar and through the neighborhood near Lothringer 13 Halle. Discussion will include identification points, cultural uses, reflection on plants’ migration histories and influence on local biodiversity.

Harm van den Dorpel is a concept artist living in Berlin. His diverse body of work includes sculptures, collages, computer animations, computer-generated graphics, and interaction design. He is considered a key figure in post-internet art. In his work, he explores how algorithms can analyze digital archives and guide the artist in aesthetic decisions, leading to a symbiosis of human and machine in art production. Through computer programming, he challenges traditional notions in art, such as the free use of intuition and expression.
Clara Runge is a curator at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Kalsruhe. Among other exhibitions, she is part of the curatorial team for the current exhibition ‘(A)I Tell You, You Tell Me. Three Encounters for Humans/Machines’, which takes part in the current discourse on AI and offers the opportunity to enter into dialogue and exchange with algorithmic systems.

The exhibition "Key Operators. Weaving and coding as languages of feminist historiography" and its accompanying program of events focus on the links between feminized labor, technological advancements, and their associated languages. The systems inscribed in weaving and coding serve as a point of departure for devising alternative ways of looking at gender and work. The exhibition brings together an intergenerational group of artists—encompassing newly conceived as well as historical works—that engage with the concept of weaving and its significance for technological developments, both metaphorically and structurally. Exhibition with Elsi Giauque, Johanna Gonschorek, Michèle Graf & Selina Grüter, Pati Hill, Charlotte Johannesson, Lotus L. Kang, Alison Knowles, Beryl Korot, James Tilly Matthews, Katrin Mayer, Johannes Porsch, Radical Software, Bea Schlingelhoff, Marilou Schultz, Johanna Schütz-Wolff, Iris Touliatou

You are cordially invited to the discussion round between Stefano Chiodi (Rom), Silvia De Laude (Mailand) and Olaf Nicolai

Opening of the exhibitions
Yael Bartana. Two Minutes To Midnight
&
Tania Bruguera. THE CONDITION OF NO

Anne Quirynen & Sandra Schäfer are guiding through their exhibition “Tracing Echoes. From Westerwald to Rio Tinto”.

Salta art, an independent non-profit organization that seeks to foster an exchange of ideas between South America and Germany, invites Espacio Temporal for the second and final edition of its collaboration with Sorry Press as part of the Various Others opening weekend. The exhibition in Sorry Square in Wiener Platz, Munich will present Alfredo Jaar’s site-specific installation Chiaroscuro, 2024. Jaar — a renowned artist, architect and filmmaker based in New York — has exhibited all over the world, including the Venice Biennale (1986, 2007, 2009, 2013), the São Paulo Biennale (1987, 1989, 2010, 2021) and Documenta in Kassel (1987, 2002).

"The Kunstraum Model. 50 Years of Kunstraum München" brings together a variety of materials from 50 years of the Kunstraum München, which enjoyed success in the 1970s and 1980s with exhibitions and publications by artists ranging from Richard Tuttle to Roni Horn and Hanne Darboven. Since the 1990s, it has turned to new artistic positions ranging from Gustav Metzger to Michaela Melián as well as more socio-political projects and formats such as Das Mädchenzimmer or R.E.P. Euro Renovation in Europe. The book offers not only a review of the history of an association run on a voluntary basis by a board of directors, but also art historical and art sociological texts and essays, which address the special features of the Kunstverein as an institution and reflect on changes in the art world over the last five decades. The collection of materials from the Kunstraum archive provides diverse access to institutional history and discourses since 1973.

The tour and entrance are free of charge, rsvp: info_espace.de@louisvuitton.com
With the video installation The Krazy House, (Megan, Simon, Nicky, Philip, Dee), Liverpool, UK (2009), Dijkstra continues her exploration of adolescence. She asked five young people to dance to their favourite music in a special studio set up on the floor of a Liverpool nightclub. Engulfed in the dim, hushed, blueish environment, the dancers move before a plain white background. They are totally absorbed, each lost in their own image and the one they wish to give the observer. The artist specifically re-imagined the display of this dazzling piece for Espace Louis Vuitton München, shedding a brand new light on this famous artwork.

In Cao Fei's works, physical and digital worlds merge seamlessly. Her art explores the intersections of these worlds, referred to as 'phygital', a term that combines 'physical' and 'digital'. Cao Fei creates virtual avatars of herself that interact with the physical world, blurring the boundaries between real identity and virtual persona. In online communities such as Second Life or the Metaverse, she examines how these worlds increasingly influence our physical lives. Her astute observation of societies in transformation, where memories and traditions meet futuristic visions, often turns utopias into dystopias. Pamela C. Scorzin will comment on Cao Fei's mixed media works during the exhibition tour and provide a deeper understanding of her vision. The event offers an insight into the complex relationship between humans and technology and the significance of the 'phygital' in our contemporary world of experience.
The talk will be given in German.

With texts by Sabeth Buchmann, Matthias Buck, Hans Dickel, Gürsoy Doğtaş, Lena von Geyso, Michael Hirsch, Justin Hoffmann, Luise Horn, Jens Kabisch, Olaf Metzel, Jenny Mues, Friederike Schuler, Daniela Stöppel, Alexander Steig, Timm Ulrichs, Wolfgang Ullrich and Sabine Weingartner.
Published by Kunstraum München, German/English.
Supported by the Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne.

with
Hêlîn Alas, Pierre-Yves Delannoy, Lukas Hoffmann, Veronika Hilger, Anna McCarthy, Jonathan Penca, Gülbin Ünlü, Curtis Talwst Santiago, Valio Tchenkov, Ayaka Terajima, Paul Valentin, Max Weisthoff, Ju Young Kim

Curated by Magdalena Wisniowska

Screening of the video work "Flooding" followed by an artist talk with Nikita Kadan, Alona Karavai, Harri Kraievets, Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk

ERES Foundation, 8 Sep 2024, 2 pm, admission free
The duo will perform live as "Panty Paradise" in their spatial installation "Après le Déluge", developed especially for the exhibition one step beyond.
Following the concert Veronica Burnuthian will present her unreleased solo album "Sterner Stuff" as Soft Violet, which will soon be released by the labels Alien Transistor and Morr Music.

Yael Bartana is one of the central artists of the present day. Her work is exhibited and collected worldwide, she reacts sensitively to current developments and, not least, has celebrated spectacular appearances at the Venice Biennale. In an artist talk, she looks back on her career together with Shelley Harten, curator at the Jewish Museum Berlin, who has accompanied her work for many years.

Closing the opening weekend you are invited to a farewell drink with art collector and VARIOUS OTHERS supporter Karsten Schmitz, who presents works by Tilo Schulz and Nevin Aladağ at Luitpoldblock.
 

Zum Abschluss des Eröffnungswochenendes sind Sie herzlich zu einem Abschiedsdrink mit dem Kunstsammler und VARIOUS OTHERS-Unterstützer Karsten Schmitz eingeladen, der ausgewählte Werke von Tilo Schulz und Nevin Aladağ im Luitpoldblock präsentiert.

On Maja Escher's stay as guest artist in the program artist-in-residence München, a panel will take place to celebrate her work and international artistic interchanges. The presentation will count on the presence of artist Julius Heinemann and curators Filipa Oliveira and Yara Sonseca Mas.

Is working abroad an excuse for an inner journey? Are truly the artistic practices enriched when exposed to other contexts? What do artists learn when dealing withother audiences and methodologies of work? This and many other questions will be addressed during the presentation of the research both Escher and Heinemann had developed in Portugal and Germany, resulting of this year experiences in Villa Waldberta (Munich) and Casa da Cerca (Almada). 

Filipa Oliveira is artistic director of Manifesta 2024 and Casa da Cerca in Almada (Portugal), institution that held a big scale installation by Julius Heinemann in May. The project was co-curated by Yara Sonseca Mas, independent curator based in Munich. Maja Escher's work, to be presented in Villa Walberta on September 22nd, act as counterpart of Heinemann’s project. 

Maja Escher (Santiago do Cacém, Portugal, 1990) lives and works in Lisbon. Maja Escher's artistic work presents a collective and hybrid dimension. She works with drawings, found objects, collaborative practices and field work methods to create installations adapted to each location and research-oriented projects.Clay, canes, ropes, stones, vegetables and other items found or given during their fieldwork are often combined with riddles, proverbs and songs, creating a tension between spirituality and science, magic and technology. Through his works, Escher cultivates and shares a deep observation of ecosystems and ancestral knowledge about the earth and its primordial elements.

Julius Heinemann (Munich, 1984) is interested in the subjective experience of space, time, colour and light. Through paintings, drawings and installations, his work examines what we see and how we create reality – individually, collectively – questioning the physical, sensual and cultural paradigms on which our perception of the world is based. Heinemann studied Photography at the Folkwang University, Essen, as well as the HGB Leipzig, and holds an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London. He has received numerous scholarships, notably from the DAAD and the Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, and participated in artistic residencies in Brazil, Mexico and Italy. He has exhibited internationally, among others, in London, Amsterdam, Zurich, Bogotá, Mexico City and São Paulo.

An encounter with the French artist Jean-Marc Bustamante.

We meet about every four weeks to read and talk about books from the "Library of Artistic Print on Demand". In a joint exchange, we deal with different texts and text forms. You will receive texts in advance that you can read in preparation. We will also read excerpts together during the meeting to support the conversation. If you would like to participate, please send us an email to lesegruppe.villastuck@muenchen.de so that we can send you the texts and additional information. The reading group follows on from the INCOMPLETE READING GROUP, a format that Christina Maria Ruederer developed for the Lothringer 13 Halle in 2021. In collaboration with Sabine Schmid, she is now adapting this format for the respective library that is a guest in the reading room.

Visit of the exhibition Viktor&Rolf. Fashion Statements followed by a reception and three-course dinner with wine accompaniment at the Café-Restaurant Theatiner 8.

Sofie Berzon MacKie is a British-Israeli artist and curator. She is the director of Be’eri Gallery, an art exhibition space for a wide range of exhibitions featuring contemporary artists in Israel. On October 7, 2023, the gallery was torched and burnt to the ground as part of the massacre carried out by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be’eri and the western Negev.
During the past year, Sofie Berzon MacKie has worked with her colleagues to reopen the gallery in Tel Aviv, where it has found a temporary home for the time it will take to rebuild the kibbutz. As an artist she has worked on a number of projects such as the exhibition “Silvery Water and Starry Earth,” in which a family home that no longer exists is rebuilt, or the “Lighthouse” series of photographs, which combines bits of memories with unfamiliar fragments to create little instances of new beginnings.
Together with Mirjam Zadoff, Berzon MacKie will speak about art’s role after October 7th and about rebuilding an exhibition space in the face of an ongoing war. What can art and museums offer to the communities surrounding them in these times, and even to an audience which is no longer there? What connections can be made between art spaces and the historical places in which they are located? And where do we begin after everything has been lost?
As part of VARIOUS OTHERS

Painter Steffen Lenk is co founder of the music and art collective and invites you to the official opening of the Mount Analogue Studios and Mount Analogue Collective’s first appearance. Munich based internationally performing artists Götz Grünberg (sax), Tommy Eberhardt (dr), Biboul Darouiche (perc), Igor Kljujic (b), Matthias Bublath (keys) will perform live and free to record in a Teo Macero/Miles Davis Style recording session.

Curator Magdalena Wisnioswska and some of the artists featured in the exhibition will guide you through the VO Special 2024. The exhibition Carrying the Earth to the Sky shows 13 artists, all of whom live in Munich, in an extraordinary location on Schillerstraße.

Since 2012, _957 Independent Art Magazine (Lucerne) has been published almost monthly. Mostly without text, the magazine relies on the power of images. Thinking in images means, not least, engaging with the indefinite. _957 emerged from my artistic practice, which deals with questions of mediation, presentation, and materiality of images. I understand and treat this print project as a two-dimensional exhibition space. On 24 or more pages, I showcase contemporary artists or discuss observations from the art system. The magazine constantly plays with and challenges itself, testing divergent ideas and bringing various demands into visual tension.

Stephan Wittmer, the initiator and publisher of _957 Independent Art Magazine, presented the AAP with a complete set (approx. 200 issues) of his artists' magazine.

Almost everything is a container. From the body to cabinets, Louis Vuitton bags, stabburs and milk cans. What are the different states and conditions of containers? What are the specific spatial expansions of accumulations and collections? How can I hold something? The lecture is a broad exploration of the phenomenon of containment and storage.

FUJI||||||||||TA is a Japanese sound artist and composer known for creating unique sound art and music based on natural phenomena. His work focuses on exploring previously unheard sounds and noises, for which he builds his own instruments. In 2009, he hand-fabricated a pipe organ with eleven pipes and an air pump called “fuigo,” modelled after a traditional blacksmith's one. Remarkably, he built it from his imagination without prior knowledge and without a keyboard. This instrument is designed to create a soundscape rather than function as a musical instrument, drawing inspiration from “gagaku,” a form of Japanese classical music historically used for imperial ceremonies and dances.
As part of TUNE, FUJI||||||||||TA will perform various works on two evenings and speaks in an artist talk with curator Sarah Miles.

Meet us at LOHAUS SOMINSKY (Ottostraße 10) and join our Gallery tour 1. We will go on to visit Knust Kunz Gallery Editions, FRANÇOISE HEITSCH, nouveaux deuxdeux, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle and Galerie Klüser and enjoy a private tour of their exhibitions. (approx. 2hrs)

Due to the limited capacities, please register in advance by e-mail to guest@variousothers.com.

Treffen Sie uns bei LOHAUS SOMINSKY (Ottostraße 10) und nehmen Sie an Galerierundgang 1 teil. Wir besuchen die Galerien Knust Kunz Gallery Editions, FRANÇOISE HEITSCH, nouveaux deuxdeux, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle und Galerie Klüser und kommen in den Genuss einer privaten Führung durch ihre Ausstellungen. (ca. 2 Std.)

Aufgrund der begrenzten Plätze, bitte wir um Voranmeldung per Mail an guest@variousothers.com.

You are cordially invited to the release party and listening session of Paulina Nolte's latest tape O/U on September 14th from 4 pm onwards. She composed a 20-minute experimental sound piece to accompany the exhibition at Galerie Françoise Heitsch.

Paul Valentin's room, 1st Floor, Haus 2, Schillerstr. 38
As some of you know, I have been doing a Sad Tuesdays reading group on and off for some time.  The idea was you would read but not socialise, ie. not drink. It is why I started writing "Sad Mondays" for Porcile, which essentially was such a one-person book club. Well, I am trying again this time on Saturday, and I am going to call it "Sad Saturday" - hah! - because I am so inventive. It will be part of the Various Other Special exhibition, Carrying the Earth to the Sky, which I also curated. The first takes place this Saturday, the 14th, the next one week later, at 5 pm.
We will be reading fragments of Deleuze's short text "Michel Tournier and the World without Others" on which my exhibition text is based. Here is a link to the Logic of Sense, where the essay can be found but photocopies will be available at the site as well.
Hope to see you there!
Please RSVP to contact@gig-munich.com

To mark the end of this year's VARIOUS OTHERS and the start of the new season, the Kammerspiele München is presenting an exhibition in the workshops and in the foyer of the Therese-Giehse-Halle of the visual world selected by Çagla Ilk, which was created in cooperation with Der Greif for our new season. Visual and performing arts and Munich scenes come together under the motto "Auf nach Woanders". VO celebrates its closing party on this evening, while the Münchner Kammerspiele and Der Greif embark on the new season together.

With tunes by Public Possession, Valentin.SNC & Voe and Sianza.

Workshop conversation and “Weißwurst-Frühstück” with Ute Stuffer (Director, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg) and Werner Murrer.

Due to the limited capacities, please register in advance by e-mail to guest@variousothers.com.

Werkstattgespräch und "Weißwurst-Frühstück" mit Ute Stuffer (Direktorin, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg) und Werner Murrer.

Aufgrund der begrenzten Plätze, bitte wir um Voranmeldung per Mail an guest@variousothers.com.

Karin Sander (*1957) is one of the most important conceptual artists of the present day. With minimalist poetry, Sander questions the conditions of art and reality. Seven of her Call Shots can be seen in the exhibition The World in My Hand. In this series, Sander programmed her smartphone between 2014 and 2018 so that a photo is taken every time she receives a call and the phone also records her location via GPS. The “call shot” thus becomes a readymade of the moment: While Marcel Duchamp proclaimed the found object to be a work of art, with Karin Sander it is the existing moment.

Taking the Call Shots as a starting point, Jörg Garbrecht and Katharina Wenkler talk to Karin Sander about artistic strategies, the role of the processual and about Sander’s masterful duality of conceptual rigor and refreshing lightness. The question of how the smartphone influences artistic creation will also be discussed.

Tickets: https://atstiftung.de/en/product/karin-sander-im-gespraech-mit-dr-joerg-garbrecht-und-katharina-wenkler/

On the final day of Maria VMier’s project “no: tongue breaks and thin fire is racing under skin,” a performance by @nnast_antn will take place. The artist and performer slips into the role of Sappho, the famous poet of antiquity. Sappho becomes the host of a community-building unveiling ceremony in which @nnast_antn approaches VMier’s installation like a body that can be touched and seduced.
She thus opens up a poetic, queer space that makes an erotic appropriation of the museum possible. In a pleasurable game with the symbolic charge and traditional codes of the museum, she demystifies the relationship between the gaze, the body, power and desire. The performance begins in Cy Twombly’s Rose Room on the upper level, leads through the institution and out onto the street. When the museum doors close, the non-public part begins, the Symposium of the Unfamous, which is reserved for the participating artists.