upcoming exhibitions

hannover goes fashion
ALLES GLEICH SCHWER - Helmut Lang
31 august to 2 november, 2008

Under the city-wide initiative HANNOVER GOES FASHION, 10 exhibitions are being organized by leading Hannover museums and art institutions. The kestnergesellschaft presents helmut lang – alles gleich schwer, the first solo museum exhibition of artistic work by Helmut Lang, one of the most prominent and influential cultural figures of our time. Lang’s most recent body of work marks the logical conclusion to a constantly rearranging equation. Turning away from the physical body and its social articulation though clothes, Lang has created a series of objects that address the intersection of public and private experience as it is recorded through mythologies both personal and shared.

jake and dinos chapman
28 november, 2008 to 1 february, 2009

The artist duo belonging to the first YBA generation has produced a body of work, which focuses essentially on the human experience and moral behaviour. The kestnergesellschaft presents their three most recent groups of sculptures, which again hover at the border of the taboo. The apparently peaceful-looking dinosaurs, as well as domestic and farm animals, generate moral panic only on a second viewing.