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Life doesn’t frighten me. Michelle Elie wears Comme des Garçons
Duration extended through January 3, 2021
The fashion label Comme des Garçons was founded by Rei Kawakubo in 1969. Kawakubo breaks with the conventions of fashion design by deconstructing, shifting and distorting and thus interferes with a perception guided by Western ideals of beauty.
The Museum Angewandte Kunst shows 50 ensembles from Michelle Elie’s vast Comme des Garçons collection and asks how we express ourselves through clothing. The fashion icon, jewelry designer and stylist tells stories about selected pieces: From the moment of discovery at the Paris runways and acquisition, to the experience on her own body and the various reactions that wearing the pieces provokes in others.
“Life doesn’t frighten me,” says Michelle Elie, and in fact, it takes courage to wear Comme des Garçons and thus clearly position oneself against existing social norms. Elie appropriates the clothing pieces that become a kind of second skin, self-confidently exaggerates her body experiences and thus challenges viewers to reflect on their own.
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Anette Lenz. à propos
Duration extended through March 28, 2021
The German graphic designer Anette Lenz, who lives in Paris, is one of the most influential designers of the present day. Out of a sense of distrust towards commercial advertising, she has developed new strategies for visual communication in the public space.
In a manner sometimes anarchical but always passionate and experimental, she plays with typography, colour, photography and film to bring forth exceptional poster sequences, books and exhibition designs; she has also created the visual identities of several French cities, theatres and museums. In a world of communication determined by economic factors and still strongly dominated by men, she has always relied on her own distinctiveness, which has made her a pioneer of a new generation of women graphic designers.
In her first large-scale solo exhibition in Germany, Anette Lenz contextualizes, ironizes and comments on her own attitude towards life. She transforms the Museum spaces into immersive graphic worlds that make visual communication a tangible experience: sensual, poetic and thought-provoking.
ars viva 2021. Richard Sides, Rob Crosse, Sung Tieu
Through January 31, 2021
The exhibition presents the three ars viva 2021 award winners Rob Crosse (*1985), Richard Sides (*1985) and Sung Tieu (*1987). The artists each address questions of human existence and the at times tension-laden coexistence of social groups. Their central medium is digital film, complemented by photography, drawing, installation, sound and objects.
With its focus on tabooed, critical and at times painful topics, the presentation of the ars viva award winners is in line with the exhibitions on current, political and social, but also historical fields of tension, which have been presented within the Museum Angewandte Kunst. In this way, the Museum opens up new perspectives on current positions within the applied and visual arts, tracing the fundamental relationships between society and its structures.
Since 1953, the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e.V. (Association of Arts and Culture of the German Economy at the Federation of German Industries e. V.) has awarded the ars viva prize to outstanding young artists based in Germany under the age of 35. The jury honours works that demonstrate a distinct language of form and an awareness of contemporary issues relating to (cultural) history. Next to a monetary stipend, the award includes the cooperation with two international art institutions, an artist residency on Fogo Island (Canada) as well as an extensive bilingual catalogue.
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Director: Matthias Wagner K
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