SIMON WACHSMUTH
From Heaven High
Solo & Friends N9

Opening: Saturday, May 25, 2024, 4-7 pm
Couch of Scholars:  5:30 pm.
With Simon Wachsmuth and members of House of Taswir
The exhibition runs from May 25 to June 20, 2024

Opening hours:
Except for the opening on Saturday, May 25 which is accessible to the public at large, gallery director A.S. Bruckstein welcomes and hosts all her guest personally.  By appointment.

MKM Gallery/ House of Taswir
Schillerstraße 15
Berlin – Charlottenburg

Solo Artist:
Simon Wachsmuth (Berlin)
accompanied by artists of Meine Kleine Mnemosyne

Work shown:
Simon Wachsmuth
From Heaven High (2022)
Video still. Copyright and Courtesy of the artist
 
Solo & Friends N9 presents a video installation by Simon Wachsmuth referencing the “Prussian Archangel” of the Berlin DADA exhibit 1920, a puppet hanging from the exhibit’s ceiling wearing a Prussian uniform with a pig’s mask on its face.
The work was understood then as a scathing assault on the military, and on the bourgeois culture at large. The artist’s video work provokes a re-visiting of post WW I anti-war iconography way beyond the debates engulfing ruangrupa’s documenta fifteen in Kassel 2022.
 
SIMON WACHSMUTH (*1964 in Hamburg) graduated from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and his work has been shown in numerous international solo- and group exhibitions since. Wachsmuth was a participant in DOCUMENTA 12, the 11th International Istanbul Biennial, and the legendary ATLAS exhibition curated by Georges Didi-Huberman. He is represented by Zilberman Istanbul/Berlin.

Simon Wachsmuth lives and works in Berlin.