Back for the fourth edition is the Munich based, four-week contemporary art event VARIOUS OTHERS – and a full programme awaits, running until 10 October.
Standing Stones (Solar Symphony 8), 2015, Haroon Mirza & Mattia Bosco. Image courtesy of Max Goelitz Gallery and Various Others.
Established in 2018, the event connects galleries, artist-run spaces and institutions around the city with uniquely curated events that appeal to a broad audience. It has attracted guests from all around the world to the German city and is fast becoming an essential agenda on the art calendar.
Top: München Monopoly, P.A.D. Image courtesy of Galerie Christine Mayer and Various Others. Bottom: Δ, 2021, Lou Jaworski. Image courtesy of Max Goelitz Gallery and Various Others.
The VARIOUS OTHERS community comprises 18 partners from 9 countries, with the partners representing an exciting mix of new and recognisable names. Joining the growing list this year is Munich-based gallery max goelitz, together with Los Angeles gallery François Ghebaly. With their debut and usual collaborators of artists and galleries, VARIOUS OTHERS transforms Munich to a hub of global exchange and its attendees can experience the city from another perspective.
Metamorphosen, Heidi Bucher. Image courtesy of Haus der Kunst and Various Others.
From artist talks, performances, videos and more, see our SLEEK highlights.
1. inventing the past. 11.09.2021 – 23.10.2021.
The international group exhibition inventing the past follows closely on the heels of the show chasing another tomorrow and, as a second chapter, signifies a change of perspective in terms of time. The diverse artistic positions are united by a shared conceptual approach that questions the effects of technology on both current and future human existence. A reflection on the present, the current exhibition illustrates our fundamental human need for progress as well as our heightened sensibility for the natural environment. This overlap of technology and nature creates a field of tension from which the works draw their complex interplay of geometric forms, electrical components, and natural elements.
Max Goelitz, Maximilianstrasse 35 (Entrance Herzog-Rudof-Strasse), 80539 München
2. My Future is not a Dream, Cao Fei. 10.09.2021 – 09.01.2022.
On the occasion of VARIOUS OTHERS, the Espace Louis Vuitton München is pleased to exhibit the work of Beijing-based artist Cao Fei within the framework of the Fondation Louis Vuitton Hors-les-murs program. Working with a variety of media including film, video, and photography, the artist produces complex multimedia installations that depict social changes in our era of globalization, urbanization, and digitalization and also function as artistic intervention and social documentation.
Espace Louis Vuitton München, Maximilianstraße 2a, 80539 München
3. PIZZAIOLI PRESTAZIONI. 11.09.2021 – 26.09.2021.
The idea behind the concept restaurant “Bistro Sole” is to combine art and culinary art, in Munich they become PIZZAIOLI PRESTAZIONI, performing pizza bakers. Curated by the visual artist Johannes Willi, it is a series of 5 performative presentations to provide an insight into the current performance art scene in Switzerland by individual artists. Each performance will take place in front of an audience over beer and pizza and will be documented in sound and vision.
fructa.org
instagram.com/bistro_sole_basel
4. München Monopoly, P.A.D. 11.09.2021 – 16.10.2021.
In collaboration with P.A.D. (Project Art Distribution), Galerie Christine Mayer presents München Monopoly, a ready-made pop-up exhibition designed to meet the viewing needs of Munich’s sophisticated art audience.
P.A.D. is a project space located in the historic SoHo district in New York City. In the pulsating heart of the mega metropole Manhattan, it reflects the bustling economy of artists making, selling, and promoting their artworks directly on the street: year-round, weather permitting.
From Broadway to the Maximilianstraße, this international exchange digs deep into its “Community Chest” for a roster of P.A.D. tokens and the mortgaged deeds of expatriate friends. Come with your collected “Go” money and be prepared to pay a “Luxury Tax.”
Galerie Christine Mayer, Liebigstraße 39, 80538 München
Galeriechristinemayer.de
5. 24-hour-video Installation Olaf Nicolai: MARX. 21.9.21 to 22.9.21.
The film “MARX” was shot on September 21 and 22, 2020 with a single, fixed camera shot of only part of the monumental face during the autumnal equinox, when day and night are the same length and is also screened at the equinox, in different locations. The 24-hour close-up transforms the political icon into a landscape subject to constant change under the surrounding light conditions in which Olaf Nicholai poses the question of the course of time, its measurement and meaning in both physical and philosophical terms.