Long Story Short | Body, Image, and the Everyday: The 1980s and 1990s
Key data
- LanguageGerman
- Time of day6:00 until 7:00 PM
- Target groupAdults
- Participantsmax. 15 people
- RegistrationIncluded in admission price | Participation tickets at the cash desk and Online-Ticketshop | Remaining places and uncollected tickets will be allocated at the information desk
Description
What ideas, locations, and positions shaped the art discourse of the 1980s and 1990s in Europe and the United States? The exhibition “Long Story Short” traces two distinct developments.
In the 1980s, artists such as Georg Herold, Rosemarie Trockel, and Franz West explored themes of the body and gender, often through sculptural work. By contrast, the 1990s saw a resurgence of painting, as demonstrated by works from Albert Oehlen, Charline von Heyl, and Laura Owens.
While some artists critically examined the contradictions of this renewed emphasis on painting, others more forcefully opened the medium to the emerging digital age and its shifting visual culture. The expansion of traditional definitions of painting highlights the increasing fluidity of artistic categories in recent decades. This tour concludes with “Black Light Paintings” (2005), a series by Jacqueline Humphries, which reveals its fluorescent brilliance under ultraviolet light.
