Liz Magor: you you you / Prem Sahib: Balconies

The Kunstverein in Hamburg is delighted to present exhibitions by Liz Magor and Prem Sahib. We cordially invite you to our opening on June 30, 7 pm.

Liz Magor
you you you

The Kunstverein in Hamburg will present the first German solo exhibition of the Canadian sculptor Liz Magor (*1948, Winnipeg, Canada, lives and works in Vancouver). During the course of her career spanning more than forty years, Magor, who ranks among Canada’s most influential artists, has repeatedly gauged the boundaries of what constitutes sculpture. Her works today play an important role in the international debate on materialism in contemporary sculpture. Magor takes common and familiar objects of our world and uses them in her installations either as ready-mades or replicates them with other materials. Transferring them to the context of art raises questions regarding the relationship between art and everyday life as well as between reality and representation. Through deliberately placed voids and mises-en-scène, Magor’s works develop a narrative potential comparable with the literary form of the short story—lacking a beginning and end, they are excerpts of an overarching narration of the social sideshows of our present-day achievement-oriented society. The show brings together sculptures and installations of the past three decades.

Curated by Bettina Steinbrügge

The exhibition was conceived in collaboration with the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich and realized in partnership with the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and the Vancouver Art Gallery. The exhibition will travel further to MAMAC - Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain de Nice. It is kindly supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the Canada Council for the Arts, and is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.

The exhibition is accompanied by a monographic publication.

Best & Boldest #3:
Prem Sahib
Balconies

The Kunstverein in Hamburg presents the first solo exhibition of the British artist Prem Sahib (b.1982, London, UK, lives and works in London) in Germany. Sahib predominantly works with sculpture and draws on the aesthetics of public and personal spaces. Industrial materials and simplified  geometrical shapes  are  reminiscent  of Minimal Art. However, in contrast to Minimalism, Sahib is not only focused on objectivity, and logic; his sculptures are also charged with personal experiences, symbolism, emotions, and subjectivity. Their clearly contoured, schematic, exterior forms stand in contrast to the very personal content. His work frequently references the human body and human touch as well their absence. For Balconies a new series of works maneuver the fragile intermediate area between the public and private sphere.

Curated by Tobias Peper

The exhibition is kindly supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung, the Leinemann-Stiftung für Bildung und Kunst, and the British Council.

Press contact: Anna Nowak, T +49 40 322158 / presse@kunstverein.de