Pipilotti Rist und Yayoi Kusama. Works from the Sammlung Goetz
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Neues Museum Nürnberg
The videos and installations by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist (*1962) transport viewers into a sensual, colorful world. The artist playfully explores the female body while also questioning social notions of sexuality, gender and identity. The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (*1929), in contrast, had to fight hard for this freedom. Polka dots, large and small, became her leitmotif, and Kusama covers her subjects—people, animals and her surroundings—with them. These forms are a metaphor for her personal dissolution of boundaries and the idea of becoming one with the universe. In the exhibition at the Neues Museum Nuremberg, these two artistic worlds encounter one another in installations, videos, paintings and photographs, offering new perspectives on two artists from different generations and backgrounds.
