Are we already dead? Or simply tired? Always exhausting life and telling of exhausted life, man sees himself in the middle of everything. The launch of the new Artist's Choice exhibition series: artists are invited to select works from the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein collection to realize a presentation.
The performance and multimedia artist Martina Morger (*1989 in Vaduz) critically examines contemporary social issues in her work. She is acting as curator for the exhibition "Are We Dead Yet?
Are we dead yet? Or simply tired? Martina Morger explores these questions with around 20 works from the collection. One focus is on video works. Many of the selected works have not been exhibited for some time or are being presented for the first time. An installation intervention by Morger herself dresses the theme in a soft, benevolent cover with a large velvet curtain.
Martina Morger's selection of works shows the search for needs that we have given up on satisfying or almost fail to satisfy. The longing for last farewells, dwindling memories, the almost forgotten, ensnares us again and again in a nostalgic sense of well-being. While the discarded, the late, the absent, the believed dead and the doomed circle around our current feelings like vultures approaching the much-loved carrion - we value the personal more than the public interest. Are there right and wrong needs?
A production of the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, curated by Martina Morger.
Aleksandra Signer, At the window, 2006 (video still). Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz © Aleksandra Signer
Works by: Giovanni Anselmo, Edith Dekyndt, Latifa Echakhch, Jochen Gerz, Christoph Getzner & Markus Getzner, Leiko Ikemura, Anne Marie Jehle, Gemma Jones, Anna Kołodziejska, Matt Mullican, Bruce Nauman, Cady Noland, Marcel Odenbach, Gina Pane, Pamela Rosenkranz, Aleksandra Signer, Erik Steinbrecher, Nora Turato, Erich Weiss.
Until August 6, 2023
