Nicole Eisenman: What Happened, The Abolitionists in the Park & Penelope in the Pit

The film “What Happened: The Movie” (2023) was created especially for the exhibition “Nicole Eisenman: What Happened” at Museum Brandhorst. From the 1990s onward, Eisenman created numerous murals in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Utrecht, and Vienna, which disappeared after some time despite their elaborate production. The artist Ryan McNamara was commissioned to give these works new life by means of animation based on the available archival material. Two works by Eisenman are also on display: a drawing titled “Penelope in the Pit” (1993) from the Brandhorst Collection and a reproduction of Eisenman’s monumental and political painting “The Abolitionists in the Park” (2020–21), the original of which is located in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.