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Simon Lässig and Vera Lutz: Romeo’s eyes
May 10–August 17, 2025
Simon Lässig and Vera Lutz’s first institutional exhibition, Romeo’s eyes, at Kunstverein München brings together newly developed filmic, photographic, and installative works that explore the processes of seeing and showing. This is an exhibition of two artists working alongside, and in response to, one another. In this sense, the duo show also serves as a framework for their ongoing dialogical practice, which began ten years ago in Munich.
The artists’ practices are conjoined through an engagement with different modalities of language and space, and through a shared inquiry into the construction of the self. Lutz’s works often take the physical characteristics of the exhibition space as a starting point. They are informed by their surrounding elements, while at the same time mimicking, exaggerating, or altering them in response. Her newly conceived works—an immersive video installation and an expansive sculpture—reflect on self-referentiality and processes of perception, emphasizing the connection between the material body of a work and the relational framework that structures it. In this way, the artist examines dispositifs of display and concealment, framing and subjectivity. In his practice, Lässig, by contrast, negotiates mimetic processes and conditioned forms of seeing, particularly as they emerge in early childhood and are methodologically embedded within the medium of film. Against this backdrop, his new photographic prints and table sculptures become a means of looking at the space that opens up between imitation and construction, making visible what is already there. Both artists’ works unfold through methods of sequencing (of rooms, of images, of the gaze) as well as through gestures of recourse to previously established formal and narrative strategies. What emerges is not a resolution, but a sustained inquiry: a shared attentiveness to the processes of seeing and to the quiet operations of form, memory, and meaning.
Romeo’s eyes also expands into other registers, which Lässig and Lutz consider as equal to the works developed for the exhibition. In this context, the artists have invited writer Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe to contribute a text to the accompanying brochure as literary response to some of the concerns occupying the artists’ works. Furthermore, a program of events was conceived by them, including a lecture by poet, translator, and literary scholar Jennifer Scappettone, as well as a screening of the film Lunch Break by artist Sharon Lockhart.
Schaufenster
Currently on view as part of the Schaufenster series is Matt Wolf’s I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard—an inventive biography, of sorts, of the artist and writer, and an elliptical dialog about friendship, nostalgia, and the strange wonders of memory. The program continues on May 10 with l’après midi by Birgit Jürgenssen. In the video, a camera circles around itself recording the artist’s private space, with herself and her cat in it. Each time the camera’s lens glides past them, the shot resumes a normal speed and captures Jürgenssen performing a different leisure pose, wearing a different colored wig. The work unfolds as an intimate choreography midway between the depiction and the deconstruction of the (artist’s) self. Following this, a video by the late artist Linda Bilda will be presented. Schaufenster is an onsite and online series simultaneously presenting works in the two permanently accessible spaces of the institution—the window display looking onto the public park in front of the Kunstverein, and the website.
Writers Residency
The Writers Residency takes up the tradition of the town chronicler and offers a temporary space for writing—an activity that is often inadequately remunerated and too rarely the subject of funding programs within the arts. Established in early 2020, the fellowship is aimed at authors and critics, as well as artists whose practice is based on writing. The current resident from April through June 2025 is Aristotelis Nikolas Mochloulis. He is an artist and writer, as well as the founder and editor of the irregularly released PDF newsletter Holdings. The residency has previously hosted manuel arturo abreu, Laura McLean-Ferris, and Joshua Leon, among others.
Director: Maurin Dietrich
Curator: Gloria Hasnay
Assistant Curator: Lucie Pia
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