– | Bergen Art Museum, Bergen
– | Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
Together with Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Sammlung Goetz created an exhibition entitled Die Wohltat der Kunst that includes artistic positions from the 1990s. It united works that treat questions of gender and identity in a new manner. The Bergen Art Museum (NO) and the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (NL) present this exhibition under the title Just Love Me.
With Matthew Barney, Rineke Dijkstra, Tracey Emin, Mona Hatoum, Jonathan Horowitz, Sarah Jones, Mike Kelley, Karen Kilimnik, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Moffatt, Cady Noland, Catherine Opie, Pipilotti Rist, Daniela Rossell, Cindy Sherman, Ann-Sofi Sidén, Sam Taylor-Wood, Gillian Wearing, Sue Williams and Andrea Zittel.
'Just Love Me', advertises the cursive writing in neon pink by Tracey Emin. But the 'bad girl' of the British art scene does not make it easy for audiences to love her. She includes details from her intimate life in her works with a seemingly complete lack of embarrassment. Just Love Me is also the title of an exhibition with works from Sammlung Goetz that raise questions about the construction of gender and identity. Many of the works shown are photographs and videos. They critically confront body images formed by the media and show how these express the balance of power.
This issue is also one of the main emphases of Ingvild Goetz's collection: “I want my collection to shake up people or draw their attention – not only in the political sense but also through very good, i.e. aesthetically good art.” As indicated by the subtitle, the exhibition included works by 20 artists and critically reviews feminist strategies of the 1970s.
Exhibition dates:
Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, NO | August 23 – October 26, 2003
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL | April 24 – June 21, 2004
243 pages, 151 ill., softcover
English
2003, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln
ISBN 3-88375-754-3
€ 20,00
