Exhibitions

Hicham Berrada

Caverne 30 October 2015 - 16 January 2016 Wentrup 'Step out of your cave: the world waits for you as a garden. The wind plays with heavy fragrance, which seeks for you; and all brooks would like to run after you.' Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. When Zarathustra talked of a garden, he is referring to Pari-Daez . This Persian... Read more

Why we expect more from technology and less from each other

11 September - 21 October 2015 Wentrup The exhibition’s title references the book by the American sociologist and MIT professor Sherry Turkle: “Alone together. Why we expect more from technology and less from each other” (Basic Books, 2011). At WENTRUP, works by the artists Verena Dengler, Florian Meisenberg, David Renggli and Gabriele de Santis address various aspects... Read more

Nevin Aladag

Traces 6 June - 30 July 2015 Wentrup Traces, Nevin Aladag’s latest solo show at WENTRUP, is named for her new 3-channel video work, which is also on view concurrently at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. On three separate projection surfaces, Aladag creates a large-scale sound-and-image portrait of the city of Stuttgart. Here we encounter, for instance, an accordion that... Read more

Gregor Hildebrandt

Auf Wasser schlafend rauscht das Meer 2 - 30 May 2015 Wentrup A full-length dressing room mirror as a portal to Hades. Orpheus touches the mirror’s surface. Concentric circles ripple out from his finger, the glass liquefies, and he slips through a quicksilver sea to the other side. Jean Cocteau adapted the tale of Orpheus, the tragic bard from Greek mythology who... Read more

Miriam Böhm

ON AT 9 March - 18 April 2015 Wentrup When is a photograph a photograph? Isn’t a sun-bleached patch of lawn actually also the result of a photographic process? When does a photo transpire? When a lens has opened and shut? Or at the moment an image first materializes in the developer? Possible ways of defining what a photo... Read more

Accrochage

31 - 26 January 2015 Wentrup Read more