This picture shows a painting with pencil, acrylic colours and coloured pencil on paper, which has the shape of a star. The motive consists of several small drawings, in the middle you see an odd version of Jimi Hendrix.

Sammlung Goetz

Mike Kelley – Peter Fischli, David Weiss

June 13 – November 4, 2000

With the exhibition Mike Kelley – Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Sammlung Goetz contrasted two artistic positions of a generation that addresses existential questions from very different perspectives. They give no answers but shake up views that have become taken for granted.

The Swiss artist duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss is known for its fragile experimental set-ups. Often with only minimal artistic intervention, the two use humor to convey a feeling of permanent uncertainty. Their international breakthrough came with their film Der Lauf der Dinge (1986/87) (The Way Things Go, translator's note) that was presented at the documenta 8. Fischli and Weiss do not commit themselves to any particular interpretation of their works. Instead, they invite viewers to openly reflect upon the world.

Mike Kelley reveals the traumas of our affluent western society. His installations of used stuffed animals, such as Citrus and White (1991), touch upon long forgotten childhood memories. Kelley comes from a working class family in the 'motor-town' of Detroit. Social repression, family conflicts and the flight into subcultures soon became issues for him. Although he is now one of the most influential artists in the US, he has always felt like an outsider.

This exhibition in Sammlung Goetz enables a dialogue between video works, installations, drawings and sculptures: a dialogue that has come together largely due to the willingness and cooperation of the three artists. Due to space limitations, the extensive installation Alma Pater / Wolverine Den (1990) is being shown in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus. The Filmmuseum also presents two evening screenings of the video films.

Mike Kelley – Peter Fischli, David Weiss

136 pages, 104 ill., hardcover
German/English
2000, Kunstverlag Ingvild Goetz GmbH, Hamburg
ISBN 3-9805267-5-5

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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.