Golem in Ruins
EVA KOETHEN
Solo & Friends #12

Opening: Saturday, October 5, 2024, 4-7 pm
Couch of Scholars:  5:30 pm.  With Eva Koethen and members of House of Taswir
The exhibition runs from October 5 to November 17, 2024

Opening hours:
Except for the opening on Saturday, October 5 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:
Eva Koethen (Berlin)
accompanied by artists of Meine Kleine Mnemosyne

Eva Koethen’s sculpture GOLEM IN RUINS (2024) is made of found objects – four rusted iron pipes –  standing together in a group. Their backs showing harsh injuries, they convey a vulnerability that is contrasted by a miraculous stability and a unified sense of direction.

The title GOLEM IN RUINS relates this work to the medieval automaton created by Jewish mystics as a result of their intense optimistic effort to counteract the withdrawal of humanity by manufacturing a humanoid robot defying moral decay and disaster.     

Eva Koethen studied Fine Arts and Art Sciences in Munich and Berlin, earning her Ph.D. under Max Imdahl in Bochum. She taught at the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin and held professorships at Leibniz University Hannover . Eva Koethen exhibits her work internationally in solo and group exhibitions, including the US, Japan and China.

Solo & Friends exhibits stand in the tradition of the (Jewish) salonières and the autonomous apartment exhibitions of the 1920s, 80s, and 00s in Berlin (Paris, Moscow, Beirut, Istanbul, etc.) Only one single work is exhibited –  accompanied by the entire ensemble of MKM artists.

Saturday, October 5, 2024, 4-7pm
Golem in Ruins. EVA KOETHEN (2024).
Sculpture/Found Object 

MKM Gallery
Schillerstraße 15 (4th floor)
Berlin – Charlottenburg

Koethen’s Golem in Ruins sculpture is accompanied by works of Walid Raad, Ali Kaaf, Taysir Batniji, Maryam Motallebzadeh, Željka Mićanović Miljković, Ekin Su Koç, Emin Turan, Elisabeth Masé, Patricia Lambertus, Razan Nassreddine, Alexander Polzin, Chris Newman, Raziye Kubat, Maliheh Afnan, Katharina Karrenberg, Joseph Sassoon Semah, Elza Javakhishvili, Eva Beierheimer & Miriam Laussegger, Ana Sontag.

MKM Gallery is an art cabinet, a performative installation, a private museum, Denkraum, and exchange market. MKM Gallery shows changing work constellation of a loosely associated artist collective working with House of Taswir.

MKM Gallery is a project of House of Taswir.

For more information please contact Adam Bruckstein at [email protected]