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“Every artist is a person!”
Positions of the Self-Portrait
September 11th – November 21st,
2010
Tuesday
to Sunday 11-6 pm
Thursday
11-7 pm
CINDY SHERMAN
Untitled #471
2008
Colour
photograph
69.1 x
52’’
Sprüth
Magers, Berlin London
Beginning in the 15th century, artists use the
self-portrait to examine themselves and their role. In the
history of art in the modern era, the format is inseparably
tied to names such as Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, and
Max Beckmann. The development of artistic self-interrogation
after 1945 has not been studied in depth. Showing works
ranging from Pop Art to art of the late 1980s, this exhibition
is designed to take a look at the self-portrait as an
art-historical genre during those decades.
ANDY WARHOL
Six
Self-Portraits
1986
Silkscreen on acrylic on canvas
6 parts,
each 22 x 22’’
Collection Froehlich, Stuttgart
In
the early 1960s a new interpretation of what it meant to stage
and to convey one’s own image put the self-portrait into the
focus of a younger generation of artists. They insistently
questioned the classical conception of self-portraiture and
its often art-historically oriented forms, and re-established
the self-portrait as a mise-en-scène, role-play or
deconstruction of the artist’s self. The proliferation and
growing significance of photography induce not only Andy
Warhol to examine the genre with a critical eye.
In
Germany, Joseph Beuys staged himself as an artist in images
charged with a cult-like aura and in performances that
presented him as a public persona and political agent; in the
US, from the mid-1960s, Bruce Nauman placed himself and his
body at the centre of his videos and
installations.
Starting with these protagonists of contemporary art,
the exhibition examines how a younger generation of artists
engaged with the self-portrait in the 1970s and 1980s,
sceptically regarding and questioning their own image in
photography, video art and painting. Artists stage themselves
in ways that radically reflect their own personality or
surround themselves with cultic auras, setting themselves
against a backdrop of social or historical
references.
VALIE EXPORT
VALIE
EXPORT-SMART EXPORT
1970
b/w
photograph
28,2 x
24,8’’
Courtesy
Charim Galerie, Vienna
The
highly radical abstract and conceptual positions taken at this
time stand alongside seemingly classical portrayals and
pictorial forms, illustrating the wide spectrum of this
artistic inquiry. Artists such as Bas Jan Ader, John
Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Andrea Fraser, General Idea, Isa
Genzken, Gilbert & George, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Martin
Kippenberger, Imi Knoebel, Jeff Koons, Maria Lassnig, Bruce
Nauman, Albert Oehlen, Palermo, Cindy Sherman, Katharina
Sieverding, Andy Warhol and Franz West opened the portraiture
and mise-en-scène of the self to various thematic fields from
art history and intellectual history and raised critical
questions regarding authorship, the individual, gender, and
the concept of genius.
IMI KNOEBEL
Selbstportrait mit Pappkarton
1983/1984/1987
Wooden
cupboard, cardboard, found objects
Dimensions vary with installation, 102.4’’
high
Olga +
Stella Knoebel
The
catalogue with essays by Daniela Gregori, Doris Krystof, Veit
Loers and David Riedel is published by Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König, Köln, 147 p., Hardcover, German/English,
€29,80; in bookshop € 38,00; ISBN
978-3-86560-884-0.
Event-Program:
Saturday, October 16th, 7.30pm, 10 years
Freunde der Staatlichen Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
e.V.
Celebration of an anniversary with discussion between
artists Nairy Baghramian, Prof. Stefan Balkenhol, Michael
Beutler, Prof. Georg Herold, Prof. Corinne Wasmuht and Karola
Kraus and Prof. Dr. Matthias Winzen.
November
4th and November 18th, 7pm
Bernd
Kuenzig will be giving a two-part lecture on the topic:
Ich ist ein anderer – Ein Portrait des Künstlers im
Kino
The
lecture will be supplemented with selected scenes from the
following movies:
Henry-Georges Clouzots: Das Geheimnis Picassos
(1956)
Jacques
Rivettes: Die schöne Querulantin (1991)
Alain
Resnais: Van Gogh (1948)
Maurice
Pialats: Van Gogh (1991)
John
Mayburys: Love is the devil (1998)
Julian
Schnabel: Basquiat (1996)
Jos
Stelling: Rembrandt fecit 1669
(1977)
As well
as movies by Bas Jan Ader and Marco Schuler.
Art education
November
13th, 11am – 1pm
Saturdays—KinderClub
Children
into the Kunsthalle—their parents into the city!
Admission and all activities are free of charge for
members of our KinderClub, supplies € 2.50 per child;
nonmembers pay € 4.50 (includes supplies)
October
17th, November 21st, 4pm
Family
Sunday
A day of
painting and crafts activities, guided tours, and games for
the entire family
Admission and all activities are free of charge for
members of our KinderClub, supplies € 2.50 per child;
nonmembers pay € 4.50 (includes supplies); (grand)parents with
children pay the reduced family rate of € 7 plus € 2.50 per
child for supplies.
Children’s birthday parties at the
Kunsthalle
A
creative way to celebrate surrounded by art
Please
call for an appointment; parties are € 65 per group (€ 75 on
weekends) plus € 2.50 per child for supplies.
Guided Tours
Public
guided tours
Tours
guided by the curator will be announced on our
homepage.
Admission 5 €
October
24th, November 07th, November
21st, 4pm
tours
guided by the curators
Admission 8 €
Art and
Coffee—Guided tours for senior citizens
1st and 3rd
Wednesday
Admission: € 10 (includes guided tour, 1 slice of cake
and 1 cup of coffee or tea)
For
dates please consult our homepage:
Private
guided tours for groups
Private
guided tours are available in German, English, and French;
please make an appointment at (+49) 07221-300763.
Group
tour fee (25 participants max.):
€ 60
(Tue–Fri), € 65 (Sat, Sun, holidays), plus € 4 admission per
person
Admissions
€ 5,
reduced admission € 4, families (2 adults and children) €
9
Combination ticket (also valid for admission to the
Museum Frieder Burda) € 12
Free
admission for high school groups, ICOM, Museumspass holders,
and members of the “Friends of the Staatliche Kunsthalle
Baden-Baden”
Museum Frieder Burda
Joan
Miró—The Colours of Poetry
July
2–November 14, 2010
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