This video still shows a camel in an oasis, with a black boy sitting next to it in turquoise water. It has its mouth wide open and looks into the camera with a paradoxical mixture of friendliness and aggression. Both figures and the setting are made of plasticine. Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Sammlung Goetz Munich
    Sammlung Goetz BASE 103

    Nathalie Djurberg

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    “It’s a stop motion technique, meaning you have an object, you take a picture of it and then you move it a tiny bit, take another picture, etc… Then you transfer it to your computer and violà you have a film. It is very important to me that the idea comes first and the technique drags behind.” (Nathalie Djurberg)

    When it comes to creating her claymation animated films, Nathalie Djurberg is a one-woman film crew: director and camerawoman, technical engineer, costume designer, figure creator and set designer all in one. Each and every image, shaped from papier-mâché and plasticine is all her own work, filmed in non-stop motion with a mini-DVD camera, frame by frame. Often, the traces of production, such as the threads supporting the puppets, or her own hands, are clearly visible, lending the films an almost naïve look that sets them apart from the glib perfection of major Disney studio productions. This is also evident in the often disturbing and provocative themes she addresses: eroticism, sexuality, violence, love, power and powerlessness, masochism and sadism, through to vulnerability, nostalgia and shelter. Hungry Hungry Hippoes (2007) shows three semi-naked female figures dressed in highly eroticised body-clinging garments, whose obesity really does conjure images of hippos. They are toying with a slender, black African boy in a way that oscillates uncomfortably between attraction and abuse. Djurberg’s works play deliberately on the fantasies of the viewer. She transforms the seeming innocence of the animated film – widely associated with a young audience – into a complex, erotically charged and psychologically visceral form of the adult imagination. The viewer becomes a voyeur of outrageous fantasies that hover between fascination and disgust, between taboo and overstepping a line.

    Djurberg’s colleague Hans Berg composes the intense electronic soundtrack that drives and dramatizes the films.

    Djurberg’s colleague Hans Berg composes the intense electronic soundtrack that drives and dramatizes the films.

    Upcoming

    Imi Knoebel

    Sammlung Goetz

    Autumn/Winter 2021

    The Sammlung Goetz honors the artist Imi Knoebel on the occasion of his 80th birthday with a retrospective exhibition. The entire spectrum of Knoebel’s artistic oeuvre will be presented, starting with his black and white photographs from the 1960s to his collages made of multicolored paper and his objects cast in concrete and ending with his most recent paintings in acrylic on aluminum. The presentation also includes Knoebel’s geometrical, minimalist works as well as his expressive paintings from the 1980s, which have rarely been shown until now.

    Barbara Kasten. Works

    Sammlung Goetz BASE 103

    Autumn/Winter 2021

    The American artist Barbara Kasten has created an impressive artistic oeuvre over her career spanning from the 1970s to the present. At the center of Kasten’s work are her abstract, geometric color photographs from the 1980s, which explore the interplay of light and dark and afford new spatial experiences. The Sammlung Goetz, which has extensive holdings of works by Kasten, is mounting the artist’s first solo exhibition in Europe in cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. A selection of the extensive retrospective will be on view in the Sammlung Goetz in Munich.

    further exhibitions

    Brainwashed
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    Sammlung Goetz in Haus der Kunst

    Felix Gonzalez-Torres, "Untitled", 1992
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    An exhibition project by the Sammlung Goetz in public space

    Tutto. Perspectives on Italian Art
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    Sammlung Goetz

    At Night. Between Dream and Reality
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    Sammlung Goetz in Haus der Kunst

    Flora. Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler
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    Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste

    Generations. Female Artists in Dialogue, Part 3
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    Sammlung Goetz

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