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Almond, Darren: All Things Pass

Almond, Darren: Terminus

Almond, Darren / Blechen, Carl: Landscapes

Andreani, Giulia

Appel, Karel

Arnolds, Thomas

Brown, Glenn

Brown, Glenn: And Thus We Existed

Butzer, André

Butzer, André: Exhibitions Galerie Max Hetzler 2003–2022

Chinese Painting from No Name to Abstraction: Collection Ralf Laier

Choi, Cody: Mr. Hard Mix Master. Noblesse Hybridige

Demester, Jeremy

Demester, Jérémy: Fire Walk With Me

Dienst, Rolf-Gunter: Frühe Bilder und Gouachen

Dupuy-Spencer, Celeste: Fire But the Clouds Never Hung So Low Before

Ecker, Bogomir: You’re NeverAlone

Elmgreen and Dragset: After Dark

Elrod, Jeff

Elrod, Jeff: ESP

Fischer, Urs

Förg, Günther

Förg, Günther: Forty Drawings 1993

Förg, Günther: Works from the Friedrichs Collection

Galerie Max Hetzler: Remember Everything

Galerie Max Hetzler: 1994–2003

Gréaud, Loris: Ladi Rogeurs  Sir Loudrage  Glorius Read

Hains, Raymond

Hains, Raymond: Venice

Hatoum, Mona (Kunstmuseum
St. Gallen)

Eric Hattan Works. Werke Œuvres 1979–2015

Hattan, Eric: Niemand ist mehr da

Herrera, Arturo: Series

Herrera, Arturo: Boy and Dwarf

Hilliard, John: Accident and Design

Holyhead, Robert

Horn, Rebecca / Hayden Chisholm: Music for Rebecca Horn's installations

Horn, Rebecca: 10 Werke / 20 Postkarten – 10 Works / 20 Postcards

Huang Rui: Actual Space, Virtual Space

Josephsohn, Hans

Kahrs, Johannes: Down ’n out

Koons, Jeff

Kowski, Uwe: Paintings and Watercolors

La mia ceramica

Larner, Liz

Li Nu: Peace Piece

Mahn, Inge

Marepe

Mikhailov, Boris: Temptation of Life

Mosebach, Martin / Rebecca Horn: Das Lamm (The Lamb)

Neto, Ernesto: From Sebastian to Olivia

Niemann, Christoph

Oehlen, Albert: Luckenwalde

Oehlen, Albert: Mirror Paintings

Oehlen, Albert: Spiegelbilder. Mirror Paintings 1982–1990

Oehlen, Albert: Interieurs

Oehlen, Albert: unverständliche braune Bilder

Oehlen, Pendleton, Pope.L, Sillman

Oehlen, Albert | Schnabel, Julian

Phillips, Richard: Early Works on Paper

Prince, Richard: Super Group

Reyle, Anselm: After Forever

Riley, Bridget

Riley, Bridget: Circles and Discs

Riley, Bridget: Paintings and Related Works 1983–2010

Riley, Bridget: The Stripe Paintings

Riley, Bridget: Paintings 1984–2020

Roth, Dieter & Iannone, Dorothy

Scully, Sean: Dark Yet

True Stories: A Show Related to an Era – The Eighties

Tunga: Laminated Souls

Tursic, Ida & Mille, Wilfried

de Waal, Edmund: Irrkunst

Wang, Jiajia: Elegant, Circular, Timeless

Warren, Rebecca

Wool, Christopher: Westtexaspsychosculpture

Wool, Christopher: Road

Wool, Christopher: Yard

Wool, Christopher: Swamp

Wool, Christopher: Bad Rabbit

Zeng Fanzhi: Old and New. Paintings 1988–2023

Zhang Wei (2017)

Zhang Wei (2019)

Zhang Wei / Wang Luyan: A Conversation with Jia Wei

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Mona Hatoum
Texts Konrad Bitterli, Nadia Veronese


German / English
Hardcover
16 x 23 cm
120 pages
79 color illustrations
978-3-935567-71-8
35.00 Euro


 

This catalog accompanies a huge survey of the work of Mona Hatoum at Kunsthaus St.Gallen. It takes the reader on a parcours through the exhibition from the artist’s body-centered early performances of the 1980s, through large sculptures of threatening household objects, to her politically charged but always beautiful installations of recent times.

 

PARCOURS
(excerpt from the essay by Konrad Bitterli and Nadia Veronese)


Walking around the exhibition, the viewer is confronted by works steeped in references to a reality beyond art. Nevertheless, Hatoum holds a surprisingly profound and sometimes extremely humorous dialogue with the history of art and its traditions and forms, regenerating them and bringing them into the present. Art is basically a dialogue with art history that is created anew for each generation.


As confident as she is headstrong, Hatoum well knows how to employ a wide range of social and cultural references to expand traditional formulas from the quarries of long-defunct Western-style modernism. Her work exposes the fissures of a globalised society – never loud, but subtle and precise. The artist exploits the metaphorical potential of materials and accepts the archetypal images and complex visual metaphors of art as a resource. Hatoum’s work combines radical artistic thought with worldliness through her choice of objects steeped in artistic tradition and cultural meaning and the sophisticated way in which she reinterprets them. Her work is precisely determined at the intersection of contemporary sculpture, existential cipher and universal metaphor.

The final installation in this parcour could be dedicated to displaced Palestinians: Twelve Windows (2012–2013) was created in collaboration with Inaash, a Lebanese non-governmental organisation founded in 1969 to create employment for Palestinian women in refugee camps in Lebanon. Twelve one-metre-square embroidered pieces of fabric are attached with wooden clothes pegs at irregular intervals to a steel cable stretched across the side room: Each “window” represents, through its motifs, stitches and patterns, a key region of Palestine: upper and lower Galilee, Jaffa, Ramallah, Bethlehem and Jerusalem, Hebron, coastal and central Gaza, and Beersheba in Southern Palestine. In a tradition that is passed down from mother and daughter through the centuries, the panels offer an insight into the long standing tradition of Palestinian embroidery, one of the most enduring and tangible facets of the culture.’ The title seems to suggest opening the windows and exploring a rich and foreign tradition of embroidery. The installation itself, however, evokes pure everyday life – the image of washing lines, which in southern countries stretch from one house to another across narrow alleyways. In the museum, however, the steel cable criss-crosses the length of the exhibition space at different heights in a zigzag line, often linking the walls to the floor and then leading diagonally back to the starting point again. The space is broken up into sections and yet can still be experienced as a whole. The result is a confusing network of coordinates, or an uncoordinated network of lines like hurdles through which we have to move in order to study the embroidered “panels” more closely. We have to negotiate the way carefully, so as not to trip over the wire. Located in the tradition of walk-in environments, Twelve Windows almost physically grabs us and even in the protected space of the museum makes us instantly empathise with the physical disabilities and mental barriers of the collective experience that make up the everyday experience of countless people around the world. With Twelve Windows, Hatoum has once again managed to create an essentially simple metaphor for highly complex geopolitical factors in Palestine and elsewhere, at the same time remembering a rich cultural heritage threatened by prevailing conditions. Twelve Windows indeed opens something like a window onto another culture.

 

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In collaboration with Kunstmuseum St. Gallen