Upcoming:

Camere moarte/ Dead Rooms, MARe / The Museum of Recent Art, București, Romania

13.02.2020 - 04.04.2020

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Giesenkirchen 1989, concrete, soil, lead, glass wool, sound-absorbing material in the room, 2 wooden constructions, 1 insulated door, Giesenkirchen, Germany
© Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn

MARe / The Museum of Recent Art

Boulevard Primăverii no. 15, Bucharest

Curator: Erwin Kessler

More info: https://www.mare.ro

Gregor Schneider’s exhibition Camere Moarte/ Dead Rooms (13.02-04.04.2020) will be preceded by the conference Camerele moarte vorbesc tare/ Dead Rooms Speak Loud, on February 11, from 18.00h, housed by the Goethe-Institut Bucharest, on Calea Dorobanți no. 32. The public dialogue between Gregor Schneider and Erwin Kessler will be moderated by Joachim Umlauf, director of Goethe-Institut Bucharest.

The exhibition and the conference were made possible through the partnership between MARe/ The Museum of Recent Art and Goethe-Institut Bucharest.

Opened in October 2018, MARe/ The Museum of Recent Art Bucharest has held until now solo exhibitions of Jeff Wall, Martin Creed, Thomas Ruff and Marcia Hafif, all of them presented for the first time in Romania.

Gregor Schneider (b. 1969, Rheydt, Germany) is a rebellious star artist. His works can be seen either as sculptures, environments or conceptual contrivances. Or better beyond all of these, as they trigger anxious experiences uncommon in current art. His first solo exhibition took place when he was only 16 years old. Winner of the Golden Lion award, for his work in the German Pavilion in Venice, in 2001, he is the author of the book Mein Erster Brockhaus (2012), subject of five documentary films, and Professor in most of the prominent German Art Schools, from Berlin to Munich and Hamburg. He is now Professor at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

As any major artist, Schneider has shocked, annoyed and excited the public, he has produced disputes and he has dislocated, at a conceptual and public level, the perception of limits of what we used to call "art". He changed the way art today is made, shown, and experienced.

Gregor Schneider will show at MARe a mirroring, double dead-room installation, a large sculpture (Weisser Negativ Kern Massiv, 1999, from the MARe Collection), 6 videos, produced from 1996 to 2018, and 11 photographs (42x52 cm), taken from 1988 to 1996. The exhibition is both synthetic and revealing, but also demonstrative. It shows the way the artist created new art concepts based on the idea of interior space, living or abandoned space, space as (and with) memory. At the intersection of architecture, design, environments and performance, Gregor Schneider's art is primarily a challenge and a frontal attack on anguish, fear, and death.

The Gregor Schneider conference Camerele moarte vorbesc tare/ Dead Rooms Speak Loud, at Goethe-Institut Bucharest, is an insight into the intricate work and thinking of one of the most provoking contemporary artists. It is a unique opportunity to see and listen to him, and asking him questions. Gregor Schneider bought the house where the head of Nazi propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, was born, only to document and demolish it from inside (leaving only the outer walls intact), then exhibiting the resulting rubble in museums and symbolic spaces in Poland and Germany. Gregor Schneider is a philosopher of vulnerable dwelling, stressing the memory of a house, a town, a country, and of the world.

Gregor Schneider's dead rooms look like bodies of perfect affective crimes, left open by a critical pathologist. Repressed emotions burst out of them like pale blood in the viscera of the mind. By inhibiting the idea of inhabited space, they exhibit the exposure - the pain of being in a clinical human space, a rhetorical device, and a poetic exoskeleton of guilt, concealment, and amnesia. In Gregor Schneider's dead rooms there is no place for pleasure, comfort or hope, but there is much room for doubt. (Erwin Kessler, curator, 2020).

Visiting Artist Lecture, Yale School of Art, New Haven, USA

04.03.2020

Macht! Licht!, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, Curator: Regine Epp

16.05.2020 - 13.09.2020

Tote Räume, West Museumkwartier, Den Haag, Netherlands, Curator: Marie-José Sondeijker

06.06.2020 - 13.09.2020

Current:

Tell me about yesterday tomorrow, NS-Dokumentationszentrum, München, Germany, Curator: Nicolaus Schafhausen (Cat)

28.11.2019 - 30.08.2020

The dark side, Musja, Roma, Italy, Curator: Danilo Eccher (Cat)

09.10.2019 - 28.06.2020

Making art public: 50 Years of Kaldor Public Art Projects, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia, Curator: Michael Landy, John Kaldor (Cat)

07.09.2019 - 16.02.2020

Past:

Out of order, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany

25.10.2019 - 06.01.2020

Werkschau der Editionen. Ein Rückblick, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria, Curator: Ivana Marjanovic

16.11.2019 - 23.11.2019

End of the Museum - 12 Stations, Trans-, Gregor Schneider / Miwa Yanagi, Art Project Kobe 2019, Kobe, Japan, Curator: Sumi Hayashi

14.09.2019 - 10.11.2019

8th Station: (17-9 Hamanaka-cho, 1-chome, Hyogo-ku, Kobe)

Suppe auslöffeln, Gallery Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan (Solo)

25.09.2019 - 09.11.2019

Suppe auslöffeln, Odenkirchener Str. 202, Rheydt, Germany 2014
© Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn

Unknown Work 2019, Setouchi Triennale 2019, Setouchi, Japan (Cat)

28.09.2019 - 04.11.2019

Unknown Work 2019, Setouchi Triennale 2019, Setouchi, Japan 2019
© Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn

Schöne Sentimenten, Museum Dhont-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium

30.06.2019 - 29.09.2019

double trouble \ double grins \ is it so with \ twins, Lothringer13 Halle, München, Germany, Curator: Lene Harbo Pedersen

02.07.2019 - 22.09.2019

Neapolis Concept Store, Galerie Peter Tedden, Düsseldorf, Germany, Curator: Martin Bochynek

03.08.2019 - 28.08.2019

White Torture, Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Wuzhen, China

31.03.2019 - 30.06.2019

Curated by Feng Boyi, Wang Xiaosong, Liu Gang

© Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn

HIGH SECURITY AND ISOLATION CELLs first built 2005 in Rheydt.

WHITE TORTURE first shown in MDD Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium 02.04.2006 - 21.05.2006