HANNOVER GOES FASHION
helmut lang | alles gleich schwer
august 31 to november 02, 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 institutional solo 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 through 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.
»The continuity is that I’m expressing what’s important to me with the appropriate form, content and context through different mediums and other dimensions. « HL
Throughout the institution, new works that explore and develop the social and physical membranes between interior and exterior identities and spaces will be exhibited. Drawing on references as diverse as the folkloric rites of maypole ceremonies and the exploration of surrogate skin, Lang has created a series of installations and objects that integrate an intimate knowledge of the human form with the personal mythologies and abstract arrangements of the world at large.
Originally conceived for »Louise Bourgeois. Jenny Holzer. Helmut Lang« (Kunsthalle Wien, 1998), »Séance de Travail 1993-1999« combines elements of reflection and projection to confront the viewer with an image of protean identity constantly reformed in the space where individual desire plays out against a background of societal norms.
Helmut Lang works in New York and Long Island.
A catalogue will accompany the exhibition.
The exhibition is realized in collaboration with ABSOLUT VODKA. A Virtual platform of Alles Gleich Schwer will be on view starting September 30th through December 31st on www.absolut.com/helmutlang. ABSOLUT and Helmut Lang will create further platforms in addition to a virtual one to showcase the work of art.
| exhibition |
HANNOVER GOES FASHION helmut lang - alles gleich schwer in der kestnergesellschaft, Goseriede 11, 30159 Hannover |
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duration of the exhibition |
August 31 to November 2, 2008 |
| press conference |
Friday, August 29, 2008, 11 am, New Town Hall Hanover 12.30-6 pm contact person in the kestnergesellschaft |
| open house |
Saturday, August 30, 2008, 4.30-9 pm 5 pm introduction by Frank-Thorsten Moll |
| curators |
Frank-Thorsten Moll, Neville Wakefield, curators |
| catalogue |
HANNOVER GOES FASHION helmut lang - alles gleich schwer exhibition catalogue (German/English) with a greeting by the Minister-President of Lower Saxony Christian Wulff and texts by Veit Görner, Jenny Holzer, Frank-Thorsten Moll, Ulf Poschardt, Gisela Vetter-Liebenow and Neville Wakefield publishing house: Walther König, Cologne |
| patronage |
the Minister-President of Lower Saxony Christian Wulff is the patron of the exhibition project HANNOVER GOES FASHION |
| sponsors |
for HANNOVER GOES FASHION: Europäischer Fond für regionale Entwicklung (EU); Hannover Marketing, Land Niedersachsen, Niedersächsische Lottostiftung, Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, Sparkasse Hannover, Nord/LB; further sponsors: ffn, üstra, PricewaterhouseCoopers the exhibition helmut lang – alles gleich schwer is supported by Absolut Vodka |
| opening hours |
daily (also on October 3) 10 am-7 pm Thursdays 10 am-9 pm closed on mondays |
| free guided tours |
Saturdays 3 pm Sundays (also on october 3) 11 am and 3 pm Wednesdays 1 pm half-hour »lunch-break« tour Thursdays 7 pm |
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special guided tours/ tours for pupils |
by arrangement |
| tours for children |
September 11, October 16, 2008, 3.30 pm |
The kestnergesellschaft is supported by the state of Lower Saxony.