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- (bilingual edition: English / German)Vertauschte Köpfe is being published in conjunction with the first joint exhibition by the brothers Andreas and Konrad Mühe at KUNSTWERK Sammlung Klein.
- About the Author: Konrad Mühe is a sculptor and video artist.
- 500 Pages
- Art, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions
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(bilingual edition: English / German)
Vertauschte Köpfe is being published in conjunction with the
first joint exhibition by the brothers Andreas and Konrad Mühe at
KUNSTWERK Sammlung Klein. How can these siblings--who could hardly be
less alike--collaborate on an equal footing, harmonizing their respective
artworks? Uniting them is an intensive preoccupation with their
family's history. And their differences are mutually complementary:
while the first is concerned with the way in which the family history is
interwoven with German history, the second addresses the relationship
between human and technological bodies, as well as their political
subtexts in the contemporary world. Not unlike a family whose members
tell divergent stories about one another, the catalog takes up various
temporal levels and narrative strands. Vertauschte Köpfe hence
encompasses multiple books that refer to and challenge one another: the
works of Andreas and Konrad Mühe engage in an interplay with texts by
Valeria Waibel, Karsten Ehlers, Monika Maron, Kito Nedo, and a comic
strip by Gregor Hinz. Hovering in the air is the question: How solid is
the substrate of their shared foundation?
Vertauschte Köpfe erscheint begleitend zur ersten gemeinsamen Ausstellung der Brüder Andreas Mühe und Konrad Mühe im KUNSTWERK Sammlung Klein. Wie können sich zwei Brüder, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten, auf Augenhöhe begegnen und ihre Arbeiten in Einklang bringen? Was sie eint, ist die intensive Auseinandersetzung mit der Familiengeschichte. Unterschiede ergänzen sich: Während sich der eine mit der Verwobenheit von Familiengeschichte und deutscher Geschichte beschäftigt, bearbeitet der andere das Verhältnis von menschlichen und technologischen Körpern sowie deren politische Subtexte in der Gegenwart.
Gleich einer Familie, die sich unterschiedliche Geschichten übereinander erzählt, greift der Katalog die verschiedenen Zeitebenen und Erzählstränge auf. So enthält Vertauschte Köpfe gleich mehrere Bücher, die sich aufeinander beziehen und gegenseitig herausfordern: Die Arbeiten von Andreas und Konrad Mühe treten in Wechselbeziehung mit Texten von Valeria Waibel, Karsten Ehlers, Monika Maron, Kito Nedo und einem Comic von Gregor Hinz. Es schwebt die Frage im Raum: Wie fest ist der Untergrund des gemeinsamen Fundaments?
About the Author
Konrad Mühe is a sculptor and video
artist. In his sculptures, immaterial projections, physical objects, and
video content form a conceptual unity. Since 2017, he has produced the
so-called "projection beings" that display expressive human qualities
while investigating sociopolitical issues relating to the perception and
impact of images, as well as to the construction of identity.
Andreas Mühe achieved international recognition as an artist through his
preoccupation with the German past and German identity. Often, there is
a certain ambivalence inherent in his analog photographs, which
reference the no-longer-visible but nonetheless still palpable aftermath
of German historiography. His most recent solo exhibition, "Stories of
Conflict", took place in 2022 at the Stadel Museum in Frankfurt am Main.