Filmmuseum, Munich

    Jochen Kuhn. Screening with the artist

    Jochen Kuhn was awarded the Golden Lola (German Short Film Prize in Gold) for his film Sonntag 3. In cooperation with Sammlung Goetz and the artist, the Filmmuseum will thus show a selection of Jochen Kuhn's short films.

    Jochen Kuhn portrays his cinematic stories with wit and irony. In them, absurd encounters – often set against somber, sepia-tone backdrops – develop that rapidly become dramatic. Kuhn paints, glues, makes collages, blurs and paints over the content of the individual film sequences. He contrasts the expressive gestures of his imagery with the sober tone of his narrator. The narration seems to be an inner monologue that the author carries on with himself.
    Ingvild Goetz first became aware of Jochen Kuhn's work at a festival and has collected his works ever since. It is not only his films that interests her but also the drawings, collages and photographs that develop in this context. Kuhn previously studied painting in Hamburg before starting his career as a filmmaker in 1972.
    Although Jochen Kuhn raises many questions in his films that he does not answer, the viewer never leaves the theater in a pessimist mood. The author is much more interested in conveying a consoling perspective on the daily hardships of human life.

    Program:

    Silvester, 1992/93
    Jochen Kuhn dares a careful review of the past year.
    Script, painting, camera, narration, music and production: Jochen Kuhn
    Film and sound editing: Olaf Meltzer
    16/35 mm, 14 min., 1992/93

    Neulich 2, 2000
    In the second part of Jochen Kuhn's series on daily occurrences, the author describes a strange visit to a doctor.
    Script, painting, camera, narration, music and production: Jochen Kuhn
    Film and sound editing: Olaf Meltzer
    35 mm, 8 min. 30 sec., 2000

    Neulich 3, 2002
    While waiting at a bus stop, the narrator becomes an involuntary witness to a modern love story with a surprising outcome. Script, painting, camera, narration, music and production: Jochen Kuhn
    Film and sound editing: Olaf Meltzer
    35 mm, 6 min., 2002

    Sneak Preview, 2013

    9'46"

    Sonntag 1, 2005
    In the first part of his trilogy on Sunday outings, we accompany a flaneur strolling through a city in the morning.
    Script, painting, camera, music, production: JochenKuhn
    Narration: Jörg Pleva
    Film and sound editing: Olaf Meltzer
    35 mm, 6 min., color, 2005

    Sonntag 2, 2010
    On this Sunday, the author attends the last performance at the Krause Theater, which is to be shut down.
    Script, painting, camera, music, narration and production: Jochen Kuhn
    Film editing, mixing: Olaf Meltzer
    Digital video, 11'30", 2010

    Sonntag 3, 2012
    In this film, which won the Golden Lola, the protagonist has a blind date with the German Chancellor.
    Script, painting, camera, music, narration, production: Jochen Kuhn
    Film editing, mixing Olaf Meltzer
    Sponsored by MFG Baden-Württemberg
    Digital video, 14', 2012

    Jochen Kuhn has selected the films shown this evening and will also be moderating the program. Afterwards, director Christian Wagner will hold a discussion with the artist.

    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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