In the exhibition Panic Room Munich the artist duo M+M looks into current upheavals and catastrophes, pandemic, war and terror.
The core of the exhibition is the Panic Room Munich. In this expansive installation, M+M develop a pointed contemporary inventory of social conflicts and global political events.
The newspaper Putin 04, developed in cooperation with the Munich based graphic designer Felix Kempf, deals with the speech of the Russian president at the Munich Security Conference 2007 and serves as wallpaper for walls and floor of the installation. Further, photographies of the series in front are arranged on the walls. They dissect significant news broadcasts in the fanning-out of all their video stills – also current ones about the war against the Ukraine, thus creating a relational system of references that also reflects the omnipresence and manipulative visual language of the media.
In a further installation, the presence of virus proof materials throughout the covid-19 pandemic is being examined and the fine line between euphoria and catastrophe is being explored in a VR-project.
M+M stands for the artistic cooperation of Marc Weis and Martin De Mattia. Ever since the mid 1990s the duo works at the intersection of visual arts and motion picture.