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The exhibition “Open, Sesame!” (“Sesam, Öffne Dich!”) at Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, is a major retrospective at the work of German sculptor Isa Genzken. The show has been developed in cooperation with the Whitechapel Gallery in London. It’s the most comprehensive solo show to date. On display is a selection of over 60 works, spanning Isa Genzken’s artistic career from the aerodynamic wooden sculptures that she made in the 1970s, to her recent installations made of consumer goods and everyday objects.

Isa Genzken (born 1948) lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Hamburg College of Fine Arts, the Berlin University of Fine Arts and the Düsseldorf Art Academy. In 2007, Isa Genzken represented Germany at the 52nd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy.

Isa Genzken: Open, Sesame! / Museum Ludwig, Cologne. Opening reception, August 14, 2009. The exhibition runs until November 15, 2009.

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Isa Genzken is the artist of the German contribution to the 52nd International Art Exhibition of the Biennale in Venice. The Curator of the German Pavilion in 2007, Nicolaus Schafhausen (director of the Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam), says of Isa Genzken: “She is one of the most uncompromising artists of our time and captures this time like few other contemporary artists.” The 52nd Biennale in Venice 2007 runs from 10 June to 21 November 2007. Opening of the German Pavilion, Venice, Italy, June 7, 2007. Part 2/2.
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Isa Genzken is the artist of the German contribution to the 52nd International Art Exhibition of the Biennale in Venice. For more than thirty years, Isa Genzken (born in 1948) has been producing a diverse oeuvre. Genzken’s extensive body of work includes sculpture and installations as well as photographs, collages and films. The title of the exhibition in the German Pavilion, Oil, has references that intentionally resonate on different levels. “On the one hand, the title explicitly states how oil as a raw material, over which people across the globe struggle, determines present social, political and economic interests as well as their effects. On the other hand, it creates abstract, visual, phonetic, sensory, and material metaphors: Oil is an expression of our time.” (PR German Pavilion). Main Sponsor of the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale is Deutsche Bank. Further information on Deutsche Bank Art is available at db artmag. Opening of the German Pavilion, Venice, Italy, June 7, 2007. Part 1/2.
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For the third time Deutsche Bank sponsors the Art Cologne. At its VIP Lounge at the fair Deutsche Bank presents a selection of works by Isa Genzken. Isa Genzken has created a work for the German Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennial and will participate in the exhibition series “Skulptur Projekte Münster” and install a group of sculptures in the city center. For further information visit Deutsche Bank’s online art magazine db artmag, where you find all the news on Deutsche Bank Art. Impressions from the reception and excerpts from the speeches of Friedhelm Hütte, director of Deutsche Bank Art, and Nicolaus Schafhausen, curator of the German Pavilion in Venice (in German). Deutsche Bank VIP Lounge, Art Cologne 2007, April 17, 2007.
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