Here you can see a fully decorated room of the artist Sarah Lucas. The walls are covered with posters of newspapers, on the left wall hangs a photographic self-portrait with fried eggs placed on her chest. In the self-portrait she is sitting on a chair which is standing on a chessboard-like background. These two objects can also be found in the room, the chair has now also been provided with newspaper cuttings. In front of it there is a kind of mobile with fried eggs, cup, banana and old banana skin.

Art from the UK

October 27, 1997 – February 28, 1998 | Part 1, Sammlung Goetz

March 30 – August 2, 1998 | Part 2, Sammlung Goetz

"When one takes a closer look at British art of the 1990s and subtracts the unnecessary hype surrounding it, these artists demonstrate a sensitivity and sophistication, almost a shameless audacity in their imaginative and direct confrontation with the three main themes concerning humanity – life, death and sex – that does complete justice to them and their reputation." (Gilda Williams)

With Angela Bulloch, Willie Doherty, Tracey Emin, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Abigail Lane, Sarah Lucas, Sam Taylor Wood and Rachel Whiteread.

At the end of the 1980s, an exciting new art scene developed in London against the backdrop of the pop culture. With their daring, offensive and direct imagery, they focused on basic socio-political questions of sexuality, identity, power, oppression and exclusion. In 1988, Damien Hirst presented the legendary exhibition Freeze in an empty warehouse in the London Docklands area, thereby founding the myth of the 'Young British Artists'. Their subsequent success on the art market was due to the commitment of advertising mogul Charles Saatchi, who visited the exhibition and began to collect works by the still young artists. In 1997, he displayed them in the exhibition Sensation in the Royal Academy in London.

Ingvild Goetz followed the development of the British art scene with great interest. Her collection contains key works of the Young British Artists such as Smoking Room (1997) by Sarah Lukas, Untitled / Concave and Convex Beds (1992) by Rachel Whiteread or Why I Never Became a Dancer (1995) by Tracey Emin. The two-part exhibition Art from the UK presents installations, films, photographs and works on paper from the 1990s by nine British artists from the collection holdings.

Part 1: Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Abigail Lane, Rachel Whiteread | October 27, 1997 – February 28, 1998
Part 2: Angela Bulloch, Willie Doherty, Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas, Sam Taylor Wood | March 30 – August 2, 1998

Art from the UK

172 pages, 111 ill., hardcover
German/English
1997, Kunstverlag Ingvild Goetz GmbH, Hamburg
ISBN 3-9805267-3-9

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Sammlung Goetz

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Sammlung Goetz BASE 103

Autumn/Winter 2021

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