Ruth Buchanan, Otobong Nkanga, Collier Schorr, Rosemarie Trockel, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Andrea Zittel
SKIN IN THE GAME presents seminal prototypes from the personal archives of internationally acclaimed artists, dating back to the 1980s and crossing over into the present. The exhibits include experiments never previously show, from paintings to sculptures, to banners, video performances, photographs, collages, drawings, books, and concept notes.
Image gallery
Otobong Nkanga, Footpitch, 1999. Photography, 90 x 120 cm. Courtesy die Künstlerin.
The works focus on that moment of professional and existential emancipation when these artists threw their skin in the game, and gave their all to art. These prototypes become the generative organs of an ongoing body of work, a series of unfinished inquiries that return, and are explored, at different moments throughout a lifetime.
Ruth Buchanan, Otobong Nkanga, Collier Schorr, and Joëlle Tuerlinckx are complimenting early prototypes with new productions for this exhibition.
A choreography devised in collaboration with Joëlle Tuerlinckx takes over remnants of the previous exhibition at KW on the 3rd floor, exploring not only the constructive dialogue between artists and their works but also conditions of “neighborly dislike”.
SKIN IN THE GAME implements the exercises and methods of the Metabolic Museum–University (MM–U), which have been developed by Clémentine Deliss at different locations since 2015 (“The Metabolic Museum”, Hatje Cantz/KW, 2020). MM–U is a curatorial platform that experiments with existing collections as prototypes for open-ended inquiry and transdisciplinary exercises.
The program will take place both within the exhibition and online through www.mm-u.online (to be launched in September).
- Curator: Clémentine Deliss
- Exhibition Choreography: Joëlle Tuerlinckx and Clémentine Deliss
- Metabolic Furniture: Diane Hillebrand
- Metabolic Museum–University Program: Christina Scheib
- Curatorial Assistant: Nikolas Brummer
Additional information
Price info: berlinpass holders: 4 € Free admission up to and including the age of 18, for holders of the KW Lover* annual pass, members of KW Freunde e. V.
Price: €8.00
Reduced price: €6.00
