Durchdringen: Das U/unheimliche s/Sehen (Inter/Penetration: The Uncanniness of Seeing)

Ausstellungsansicht „Durchdringen: Das U/unheimliche s/Sehen", Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank

With a semantically and typographically layered German title, which roughly translates to “Inter/Penetration: The Uncanniness of Seeing”, it explores complementary pairs, as found, for example, in the various definitions of penetration (durchdringen), which can mean not only comprehend but also probe or scrutinise, among other things. Against this background, the exhibition also considers the relationship between the familiar (heimlich) and the mysterious (unheimlich), which psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud discussed in his 1919 essay “The Uncanny” (“Das Unheimliche”).

The first part of the exhibition, with works by Gerhard Altenbourg, Ingeborg Hunzinger, Max Uhlig and Cornelia Schleime, among others, hinders habitual ways of seeing: Visitors are denied the usual practice of approaching the artworks, and the self-evident or familiar aspects of individual works are presented in a new way.

In the second part, Müller increasingly adopts the role of the artist, responding to the works of the Kunstsammlung der Berliner Volksbank via his artworks, scrutinising it by aesthetic means. Müller makes it impossible to pigeonhole artists and works according to conventional aesthetic, stylistic, historical and substantive categories. Instead, he creates a series of independent narratives in which two works are juxtaposed and brought into dialogue.

Runtime: Wed, 11/09/2024 to Sun, 08/12/2024

Price: €5.00

Reduced price: €3.00

Reduced price info: Trainees, students, pensioners, welfare recipients, severely disabled persons with official ID, owners of ArtCard and Ehrenamtskarte.

Free admission for children and young people up to 18 years, school classes incl. teachers, representatives of the press, recipients of Bürgergeld, required accompanying person of severely disabled, artists and lenders of the exhibition, members of the following associations: International Council of Museums, International Association of Art, Berufsverband Bildender Künstler*innen Berlin e.V., Bundesverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler

Takes place here:

• Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank