Isa Genzken, Nofretete, 2014 7 Plaster busts with glasses, wood, each 190,7 x 40 x 50 cm 4 Metal sheets, each 150 x 120 cm Installation measuraments varilable Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Koeln/Berlin/New York, David Zwirner, New York/London und Hauser & Wirth Courtesy Isa Genzken, VG Bild – Kunst, Bonn 2016
For the first time in Berlin the German artist Isa Genzken will show a comprehensive selection of her rapturous early films, drawings, ellipsoids and sculptures. The artists who’s known for creating collages with complex narratives and montages integrating everyday objects, first came to prominence in the 1970s, when she produced the computer-designed sculptures, that influenced American Minimalism and Conceptual Art.
The show at Martin Gropius Bau sheds light on the artist’s striking sculpture-based work that features recognisable and strange objects dealing with the issue of beauty. “I like linking things that stood previously disjointed. This compound is like a handshake between people,” Genzken said. And it’s her amalgamation of disparate objects removed from their original context that shake us back into life to question our convictions.
See more of her works in the image gallery below