1 septiembre 2006 – 15 octubre 2006

Sanja Ivekovic

Sanja Iveković is regarded as one of the most important artists of a ‚middle’ generation. In addition to an extensive retrospective selection of her work, the exhibition at the Kölnischer Kunstverein also show her recent works. At first glance the photographs, videos, objects and performances that Sanja Iveković has created since the mid-seventies seem to follow the laws of a glamorous pop culture. For instance, in „Double Life” from 1975 Sanja Iveković contrasted conventional icon-like magazine and advertising photos of women with private pictures of herself, in which the related gesture compels a comparative and reflexive reading. Inscribing herself as a person and thus the private into public discourse, in her work Sanja Iveković pursues the question of how the routines of everyday life are influenced by the dictate of fashion, advertising and the star cult. At the same time, for the artist the body is always only the body in the representation - an image surface dominated by the gaze. Sanja Iveković purposely exposes herself to the male gaze, emphatically placing the body, sexuality and gender in the context of the political. In her most recent works she also refers to the collapse of former Yugoslavia, the ethnic cleansings, the living conditions of refugees and women's anti-fascist resistance.

dirección

Kölnischer Kunstverein - Die Brücke
Hahnenstr. 6
50667 Köln
fon +49 221 21 70 21
http://www.koelnischerkunstverein.de

horarios

Tuesday-Friday
1p.m. - 7 p.m.,
Saturday, Sunday
11 p.m. - 6 p. m.
closed on Monday.

en el período de 10 dias
comienzo de exposiciones
finalizacion de exposiciones