OSRAM COLLECTION – a brief overview
OSRAM GALLERY MUNICH
February 3 – May 15, 2012
With works from Carlos de Los Ríos, Oliver Westerbarkey, Katja Eckert, Christopher Lewis, Leopold Rabus, Peter Senoner and others
Egon Schiele
Kunstubau
3 December 2011 – 4 March 2012
Egon Schiele is one of the most popular modernist artists, who stands like almost no other for the close relationship between an artist’s work and life. His early tragic death, his turbulent friendship with his model Wally, and the Neulengbach affair, in which he was imprisoned for twenty-four days in 1912 for allegedly seducing a minor, have all led to ongoing public interest in his private life. His best-known works have therefore often been seen in terms of this narrow focus on the autobiographical – nudes of young women showing their sex in provocative poses, and seemingly pathological self-stylisation.
Seven Screens
Herlinde Koelbl : Captivated by the look in your eye
OSRAM Building
9 November 2011 until 15 May 2012
The tenth video installation for the SEVEN SCREENS, which is to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the scheme’s inception, is devoted to people: the acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Herlinde Koelbl focuses on the meaning of our sense of sight.
Je suis belle
OSRAM GALLERY MUNICH
June 1 – November 5, 2011
The new exhibition compiled from the company’s artwork collection is centered around a new acquisition: “Girlfriends” by the Swiss artist, Chantal Michel. This pair of images complements the focus of the collection on the dialog between painting and photography. Michel’s key interest concerns the search for one’s own identity.
A Cross Section
OSRAM ART GALLERY
26 July until 19 November 2010
The new exhibition, which is comprised of works from the company’s collection, focuses on the work “Echo,” a new acquisition by the Berlin-based artist Katja Eckert. The pair of images reflects the collection’s interest in the dialogue between painting and photography. Various methods of approaching and appropriating reality are concealed behind the seemingly media-specific subject matter.
Sylvie Fleury: WRITTEN ON THE WALL II
KUBUS
May 17 until August 1, 2010
Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury combines in her work divergent topics like esotericism and trash, fashion and motorsports, science fiction and art history. By connecting separate spheres she often plays off gender differences against each other: Soft, feminine bodies counter the masculine geometry of Stacks by Donald Judd. In advertising slogans for cosmetics she discovers an aesthetic relationship with the text pieces of Joseph Kosuth.
euward is the european art award for painting and graphic arts by artists with a mental disability. It is the first, and so far the only, prize of international status to be awarded in this sphere of art. euward has been presented by the Augustinum Foundation (Munich) since 2000 and, with the support of the Evangelische Kreditgenossenschaft eG and Sanitas Versicherungs- und Wirtschaftsdienst GmbH, will be presented for the fifth time in 2010. The patron is Emilia Müller, the Bavarian State Minister for European Affairs.
Harun Farocki: SEVEN SCREENS
OSRAM ART PROJECTS
May 20 until November 21, 2010
The SEVEN SCREENS are located next to the OSRAM building at the urban freeway, Mittleren Ring, Munich
For the seventh new installation on the SEVEN SCREENS the internationally renowned film maker Harun Farocki has created a site specific work that reacts to the ‘spectacle expectation’ that is often associated with LED screens as a medium.
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