The exhibition Lens-Based Sculpture shows the relation between sculpture and photography for the first time from the perspective of the history of sculpture.

The two hundred works by more than seventy international artists show how modern sculpture detached itself from the millennia-old principle of statuary sculpture and evolved into a new artistic praxis in which the whole of reality with its diverse tactile, spatial, and media-related phenomena is sculptural material. The camera serves as sculpture's primary tool, as a sketchbook and facilitator for spatial and structural representation in mass and form. Along with works by Umberto Boccioni, Marcel Duchamp, and Raymond Duchamp-Villon that mark the point of departure for Lens-Based Sculpture, works created since the 1960s form the core of the exhibition.

The exhibits range from hyperrealistic to immaterial sculpture, from sculptural spatial installations to fictitious sculpture, from performative sculpture to preserving traces and to photomedia investigations in the form of sculptural apparatus. Works by John Chamberlain, Tony Cragg, Valie Export, Gilbert & George, Duane Hanson, Rebecca Horn, Joan Jonas, Edmund Kuppel, Ron Mueck, Bruce Nauman, Giuseppe Penone, Roman Signer, Kiki Smith, and other artists show the degree to which photography and film have expanded sculptural work in the direction of new experimental and social contexts.

In Lens-Based Sculpture, curated by Bogomir Ecker, Raimund Kummer, Friedemann Malsch, and Herbert Molderings, artists and art scholars jointly develop unaccustomed forms of presentation. Thus, Marcel Duchamp's Porte Gradiva (1937) is shown in its original form – as a traversable doorway. The sculptors Bogomir Ecker and Raimund Kummer also integrate two conceptual spaces: like an archive, densely and multimedially stocked, they open up additional insights into the complex artistic research on the phenomena of Lens-Based Sculpture.

A German-English catalogue will be published with texts by Michel Frizot, Ursula Frohne, Friedemann Malsch, Herbert Molderings, Dietmar Rübel, and Annette Tietenberg, with a pictorial essay by Bogomir Ecker and Raimund Kummer.

The exhibition is a cooperation of Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein and Akademie der Künste, Berlin.

More pictures to this exhibition

  • Lens-Based Sculpture
    Exhibition view Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein Photo: Ines Agostinelli © Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
  • Lens-Based Sculpture
    Exhibition view Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein Photo: Ines Agostinelli © Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
  • Lens-Based Sculpture
    Exhibition view Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein Photo: Ines Agostinelli © Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
  • Lens-Based Sculpture
    Exhibition view Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein Photo: Ines Agostinelli © Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
  • Lens-Based Sculpture
    Duane Hanson, Man with Camera, 1991, exhibition view Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein Photo: Ines Agostinelli © Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
  • Sun, 31.8.2014
    15.00
  • Opening
  • Thu, 15.5.2014
    18.00
  • Guided tours
  • Thu, 22.5.2014
    18.00
  • Thu, 21.8.2014
    18.00
  • Thu, 28.8.2014
    18.00
  • Thu 15.5.

    Opening

    Vernissage
    The change of sculpture trough photography
  • Thu 22.5.

    Guided tour

    Die Veränderung der Skulptur durch die Fotografie
    Guided tour with Friedemann Malsch
  • Sun 1.6.

    One Hour

    Lens-Based Sculpture
    Von der Wissenschaft zur Kunst. Bewegungsfotografie und futuristische Skulptur. Eine Stunde. Mit Friedemann Malsch
  • Tue 3.6.

    "Art 60 plus"

    Die Veränderung der Skulptur durch die Fotografie
    with Barbara Redmann, without reservation
  • Thu 12.6.

    Lecture

    «Home for my bird» – Aus dem Alltag einer Kunstgiesserei
    von Annina Zimmermann
  • Thu 26.6.

    Take Away

    Die Veränderung der Skulptur durch die Fotografie
    Short guided tour during the lunch break
  • Thu 26.6.

    Lecture

    Transformationen des Skulpturbegriffs seit Erfahrung der Fotografie
    von Ursula Frohne
    In Kooperation mit der Liechtensteinischen Kunstgesellschaft
  • Thu 3.7.

    Lecture

    Die Maschine Mensch
    von Herbert Molderings
    In Kooperation mit der Liechtensteinischen Kunstgesellschaft
  • Sun 6.7.

    Families

    Reiseziel: Museum!
    Kunstmuseum Spezial
  • Sun 3.8.

    Families

    Reiseziel: Museum!
    Kunstmuseum Spezial
  • Tue 19.8.

    "Art 60 plus"

    Die Veränderung der Skulptur durch die Fotografie
    with Barbara Redmann, without reservation
  • Tue 19.8.

    "Art 60 plus"

    Die Veränderung der Skulptur durch die Fotografie
    with Barbara Redmann, without reservation
  • Thu 21.8.

    Guided tour

    Die Veränderung der Skulptur durch die Fotografie
    Guided tour
  • Thu 28.8.

    Take Away

    Die Veränderung der Skulptur durch die Fotografie
    Short guided tour during the lunch break
  • Thu 28.8.

    Guided tour

    Die Veränderung der Skulptur durch die Fotografie
    Guided tour
  • Sun 31.8.

    Finissage

    Die Veränderung der Skulptur durch die Fotografie
    Dialogführung mit Bogomir Ecker und Friedemann Malsch