Body Performance
30.11.2019 to 20.09.2020
Museum für Fotografie
In the #helmutnewton Stiftung in the Museum für Fotografie in #berlin the exhibition "Body Performance" presents works by #vanessabeecroft, #yangfudong, Inez & Vinoodh, #jurgenklauke, #robertlongo, #robertmapplethorpe, #helmutnewton, #barbaraprobst, #vivianesassen, #cindysherman, #bernduhlig, and #erwinwurm.
For the first time in Germany, this group exhibition brings together photo sequences whose origins lie in performance art, dance, and other staged events, complemented by a selection of street photography and conceptual photography series. With their common focus on the human body, the images document or interpret performances, which in many cases have also been initiated by the photographers themselves.
Interactive 360° Tour Through the Exhibition
We invite you to go on a virtual reality tour through the exhibition, featuring an audio commentary by curator Matthias Harder. Use the trackpad or mouse of your computer or the touchscreen of your smartphone to control the film. Enjoy 360° views as you move through the six exhibition rooms.
Multiple Stages
The works of the 13 internationally renowned artists are presented throughout the spaces of the #helmutnewton Foundation as if on multiple stages, where visitors can view images of #people who, in the act of performance, seem to slip into dream-like, parallel planes of reality. Within this show at the #helmutnewton Foundation, viewers encounter a broad swathe of artistic actions and performances focusing on the human body: #people dress up for unconventionally staged fashion shots, they move wildly on streets and rooftops, inhabit rocks and museum spaces, and appear as dancers on and off-stage. Role play and transgressions of physical are revealed by contemporary photographic perspectives on the most diverse visual aspects of body and space, dance and movement. In both their presentation and their reception, these images provokes questions on self-perception, the gaze of the other, identity, and emotion.
Photography and Performance
Performance is an independent art form, and photography is its constant companion. The close connection between photography and performance, happenings, and action art has existed for many decades and ranges from the Dadaists and Surrealists to Viennese Actionism and the contemporary nude human installations made in the public space by Spencer Tunick.
Helmut Newton's Series "Ballet de Monte Carlo"
A relatively unknown work by #helmutnewton is the series of images he made of the dancers of the Ballet de Monte Carlo starting in the 1980s. Instead of depicting them on the classical stage, he photographed them on the streets of Monaco, on the steps behind the famous casino, near the emergency exit of the theatre building, or in the nude at his own home. Newton reinterpreted with these dancers the compositional idea that came to define his work – Naked and Dressed – and once again addressed the link between exhibitionism and voyeurism.
30.11.2019 to 20.09.2020
Museum für Fotografie
Jebensstraße 2
10623 Berlin
Opening times
Sun 11:00 - 20:00
Mon closed
Tue closed
Wed closed
Thu 11:00 - 20:00
Fri 11:00 - 20:00
Sat 11:00 - 20:00
www.smb.museum
09 HNS BP InezVinoodh Cindy Sherman The Gentlewoman
3543x3543, 4MB
04 BerndUhlig Sasha Waltz Dialoge I 99
2102x3174, 2MB
08 HNS BP RobertMapplethorpe Lisa Lyon
3503x3543, 3MB
01 HNS BP HelmutNewton Ballet de Monte Carlo
3543x3531, 3MB
03 HNS BP ErwinWurm One Minute Sculpture I
1181x1757, 2MB
07 HNS BP VivianeSassen Untitled from Roxane I
3543x2362, 3MB
02 BarbaraProbst Exposure 129 Munich
3543x1755, 3MB
05 HNS BP YangFudong New Woman III
1949x1299, 1MB
06 HNS BP VanessaBeecroft VB55 Performance 2005 NNG Berlin
3543x2881, 2MB
10 HNS BP RobertLongo Men in the Cities
1772x1182, 3MB
press release
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