Intro
How to See [What Isn’t There]
Langen Foundation, Neuss
September 9 2018–March 17 2019
The major exhibition was based on a selection of works from the The Burger Collection Hong Kong staged in a spectacular building designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Tadao Ando.
The works selected highlighted and blurred the lines between presence and absence, visualising the immaterial representation of ideas, literally directing the viewer’s gaze to something other than themselves. The exhibited works acted as indicators of complex processes and histories fitting within the context of the Zen inspired Ando building, and set against the site’s invisible history of Raketenstation Hombrich, a former military ground that was used during the Cold War.
A newly commissioned work by Jon Rafman offered an interpretation of the surroundings through virtual reality. His artificial view through VR goggles populated the bucolic views of Raketenstation with images of destruction and apocalypse.
Artists:
Doug Aitken, Iván Argote, Davide Balula, Fiona Banner, Mohamed Bourouissa, Valentin Carron, Alejandro Cesarco, Angus Fairhurst, Urs Fischer, Sylvie Fleury, Gao Weigang, Gilbert & George, Douglas Gordon, Wang Guangle, Ho Sin Tung, Sabine Hornig, Huang Rui, Marguerite Humeau, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Kong Chun Hei, Fabian Marti, Kris Martin, Hans Op de Beeck, Pak Sheung Chuen, Jon Rafman, Pamela Rosenkranz, Fiete Stolte, The Propeller Group, Kin-Wah Tsang, Wang Du, Xie Lei, and Zhang Huan.
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