Lutz Bacher
4 July – 13 September 2009
Galeriestraße 4
80539 München, Germany
Working in Berkeley, California since the 70s and during the 80s in close affiliation with Pat Hearn Gallery in New York City, Lutz Bacher, whose real identity remains hidden from the art public, stages herself as a shape shifting character. Constantly constructing fractured and conflicting identities, Bacher creates a body of work that is formed and informed by interference, superposition and dissolution.
This exhibition especially produced for Kunstverein München focuses partly on Bacher`s humorous picking away at the American Dream, respectively its representation and construction within the media; Video works, fanzine-like books or installations – in her exhibition “Do you love me?” mermaids cross the path of alligators, Gozilla bites the “Wizard of Oz” while penetrating “Gap” advertising campaigns. Lutz Bacher contaminates assumed visual worlds with traces of idiosyncrasy and sexual ambiguity, creating fractures that reveal the material as well as the psychological contradictions of a dream cum nightmare constantly driven by the question “Do you love me?”
Lutz Bacher lives and works in Berkeley, California.
Solo exhibitions: 2009, PS1/MOMA (New York); 2008, Contemporary Art Museum (St. Louis), Taxter & Spengemann (New York); 2006, Ratio 3 (San Francisco); Group exhibitions: 2008, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); 2006 PS 1/MomA (New York).
Talks & Open Air Cinema:
Sunday, 5 July 2009, 3 pm: Sunday brunch and artist talk: Lutz Bacher, Nick Mauss & Ken Okiishi (Artists, Berlin/New York) und Stefan Kalmár (Director, Kunstverein München)
Thursday, 23 July 2009, 9 pm:
“Domino”, France/USA 2005, 122 min.
Thursday, 30 July 2009, 9 pm:
“Jungle Book”, USA 1942, 108 min.
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Opening Hours:
Tuesday – Friday: 12 – 7pm
Saturday + Sunday: 11 – 6pm
