Vanessa Beecroft Knihy

A survey of the Vanessa Beecroft's widely acclaimed oeuvre produced in close collaboration with the artist - featuring a number previously unpublished early drawings.

"Although the opposite is usually true of group shows, ONTOM has no subject. It offers many things, but by no means everything. Works by 13 artists who hardly to be subsumed under one concept of theoretical discourse or content are to be seen, heard, smelled and tasted. Even so, if you cannot do without a small common denominator, the one thing that all the works presented have in common is that none of them has been formed by an artist- thus representing the exact opposite of the artifacts which were shown in (Collection 98). Either they are objects of everyday life which experience a semantic reassessment due to their presentation, or communicative situations are offered with which the audience- sometimes multiple viewers, sometimes fewer- may enter an active dialogue. The viewer's direct and immediate participation contradicts the classical, contemplative tour as we know it from museums and galleries (and as it is also experiences on the upper floor). The exhibition does not offer a reserved aesthetic selection, in which one can get involved or not, according to one's mood. The solitary visitor or the group becomes a temporary component of the work which without him as the active subject "functions" only partially, or often not at all. It is calculated that in one case or another, questions will be asked about how exhibitions and institutions work"--English translation from gallery website