HOMMAGE TO JANNIS KOUNELLIS
Ayşe Erkmen | Anselm Kiefer | Michael Sailstorfer | Sun Xun | Timm Ulrichs | Bernar Venet

Art & Coal
Homage to Jannis Kounellis

Ayşe Erkmen | Anselm Kiefer | Michael Sailstorfer | Sun Xun | Timm Ulrichs | Bernar Venet

June 8 to October 28, 2018
MKM Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art, Duisburg

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Jannis Kounellis, pioneer of the Arte Povera movement, is at the center of the exhibition with which the MKM is participating in the cross-city project “Art & Coal” project of the RuhrKunstMuseen. Alongside steel, stone and fabric, coal is one of the basic elements that Kounellis used to create his expansive installations.

Selected works from private and public collections are presented, in which the archaic power of the material is celebrated. Kounellis’ staging of the “poor” material is rich in associations and stored history. His installations can also be read as reminiscences of the declining industrial age.

For me, iron and coal are the materials that best reflect the world of the industrial revolution and thus the origins of today’s culture. (Jannis Kounellis, 1989)

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Jannis Kounellis, installation view MKM, 2018, Viehof Collection, formerly Speck Collection (l), Venet Foundation Collection, New York (r), © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018 / Photo: Henning Krause
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Jannis Kounellis, installation view MKM, 2018, Viehof Collection, formerly Speck Collection (l), Venet Foundation Collection, New York (r), © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018 / Photo: Henning Krause

Based on this, the MKM is showing further artistic positions in the sense of an homage to Jannis Kounellis. On display are works and workspaces by Ayşe Erkmen, Anselm Kiefer, Michael Sailstorfer, Sun Xun, Timm Ulrichs and Bernar Venet, which have been specifically selected or newly created for the exhibition. They all use charcoal as a working material, motif and content carrier.

The project is made possible by the generous support of the RAG-Stiftung, the Brost-Stiftung and Evonik Industries AG as well as the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitization and Energy and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

A comprehensive supporting program accompanies the exhibition:

From Bazon Brock’s legendary visitor school to vacation workshops for young people, theater and music productions to the mining hammer concert, everything is included. At the finissage on October 28, Timm Ulrich’s “Kohle-Ofen, brennbar” will literally go up in flames and a panel discussion will address the question: What happens after art & coal?

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Picture gallery of the opening (June 11, 2018)

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[Image above: Jannis Kounellis, Untitled (detail), 2000, Collection Venet Foundation, New York, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018, Photo: Jérôme Cavalière]

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