Martin Wong – Malicious Mischief 25.02.23–14.05.23
Martin Wong is recognized for his depictions of social, sexual, and political scenographies from the US in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Poetically weaving together narratives of queer existence, marginal communities, and urban gentrification, Wong stands out as an important countercultural voice at odds with the art establishment’s reactionary discourse at the time. Heavily influenced by his immediate surroundings, the artist’s practice merges the visual languages of Chinese iconography, urban poetry, graffiti, carceral aesthetics, and sign language. His work offers rare insight into decisive periods of recent US American history as told through its changing urban landscapes, unfolding hidden desires, and complexities.
Guided Tour for groups in English & German 60 min, 70 € plus admission
Guided Tour for school groups in English & German 60 Min, 55 € plus admission, free up to 18 years of age
A guided Overview Tour through all recent exhibitions is possible.
»Ruido / Noise« is the first solo exhibition by the Colombian-American artist Karen Lamassonne (b. 1954, US) in Europe and is collaboratively presented with Swiss Institute, New York, and Medellín Museum of Modern Art –MAMM. The exhibition brings together paintings, drawings, collages as well as videos that Lamassonne created between 1974 and today. The works of Lamassonne are often situated in domestic spaces like bathrooms, bedrooms, kitchens, and hallways. As a woman, she playfully questions notions of self-portraiture and self-representation by concealing and revealing the self. In later works, she would move towards depicting the tension between the intimacy of sensual and sexual bodies in public urban spaces.
Guided Tour for groups in English & German 60 min, 70 € plus admission
Guided Tour for school groups in English & German 60 Min, 55 € plus admission, free up to 18 years of age
A guided Overview Tour through all recent exhibitions is possible.
Public Tour in English Saturday 11.03., 22.04., 06.05. & Sunday 02.04. 4pm in German Sunday 12.03., 23.04., 07.05. & Sunday 01.04. 4pm 60 min, free of charge
With »Innenportrait«, KW Institute for Contemporary Art presents the first institutional solo exhibition of Win McCarthy. In his work, McCarthy (b. 1986, US) explores the dialectical relationships between subjects like city and citizen, friend and the stranger, and present and past. McCarthy’s work often testifies to the paradoxical emptiness experienced in a metropolis. Taking the city’s map as a metaphysical topography, the confluence of real estate, architecture, and urban planning become vocabulary for the construction of a self.
Guided Tour for groups in English & German 60 min, 70 € plus admission
Guided Tour for school groups in English & German 60 Min, 55 € plus admission, free up to 18 years of age
A guided Overview Tour through all recent exhibitions is possible.
Public Tour in English Saturday 04.03., 25.04., 15.04. & 13.05. 4pm in German Sunday 05.03., 26.03., 16.04. & 14.05. 4pm 60 min, free of charge
Zuschnitt: Philippe Van Snick, Dag/Nacht, 1984 – fortlaufend / ongoing, Installationsansicht Eingangstor
Behind White Walls Workshop for school groups
Who or what are KW? Just a random old building? A (dream) factory? A cozy garden to chill out in? What traces of time does one find and why are they here? Where is the history behind the architecture? In this workshop, the students will explore together with playful, creative and interactive exercises how people, crises, changes, and ideas that have inscribed themselves into the KW building and the neighbourhood of the Scheunenviertel over the past centuries. On the basis of a common search for traces, the participants can bring themselves, their own stories and what surrounds them into a resistant exchange with the history of the place. The aim of the workshop is to introduce the institution and the history of the area to children and young adults of different ages and to enable an individual approach through artistic approaches and group work.
Workshop for school groups in English & German 120 min, 105 € plus admission, free up to 18 years of age max. 20 participants
