Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories
Exploring historical links between art and political protest, historical trauma and social narratives since the 19th century This publication accompanies an exhibition at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin that confronts the gallery’s name and explores the effects of nation-building and colonialism on society and ecology. Artists include Marina Abramovic, Joseph Beuys, Amanda Heng, Käthe Kollwitz, Bruce Nauman and more.
Spaciously presented across more than 2,000 square metres in Hamburger Bahnhof?s Rieckhallen, the group exhibition Magical Soup features key works complemented by loans representing the latest generation of artists, with a common point of departure being the nexus of sound, image and social space.00Music has the power to create imaginary worlds. Sounds can physically shake up rooms. And images can conjure up auditory spaces that draw us beyond canvases and screens. Magical Soup explores the power and the magic with which images, sound, music, and language create, reveal or hide reality. The works range between precise observation, radical self-expression, and deliberate deconstruction of identity. 'Magical Soup' brings together works by the media art pioneers Nam June Paik, Jochen Gerz, Charlemagne Palestine, Ulrike Rosenbach and Keiichi Tanaami; by the multimedia artists Nevin Alada?, Stan Douglas, Cyprien Gaillard, Douglas Gordon, Rodney Graham, Dmitry Gutov, Anne Imhof, Joan La Barbara, Pipilotti Rist, Diana Thater, Lawrence Weiner, Nicole Wermers and David Zink Yi; and by the younger artists Korakrit Arunanondchai, Trisha Baga, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Christine Sun Kim, Sandra Mujinga and Sung Tieu. Exhibition: Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany (06.09.2020 - 03.01.2021).