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Conny Maier
Beautiful Disasters
Curated by Udo Kittelmann
03/09/2023 - 07/04/2024
ABOUT
Maier’s large-scale paintings reflect on the polarities of dominance and submission, equilibrium and instability, the human and the non-human. In Beautiful Disasters, she responds to 21st century questions of immoderation and fundamental distrust of reason with relentlessly colorful answers. Misshapen figures, seen with wide open mouths and gelatinous appendages, often multi-breasted and donned in malformed headdresses, wander through her canvases in vivid, sweeping brush strokes. Her compositions oscillate between fascination and repulsion, beauty and the grotesque, to depict life beyond the expected. Considered together, Maier’s abstractions offer an unflinching look at the end of the Holocene and the realities of our new age and ask what kind of a new day might dawn.
About the artist: Conny Maier lives and works in Berlin and Baleal, Portugal. She was one of three recipients of Deutsche Bank’s prestigious Artists of the Year award in 2021. In September 2023, she will show a large-scale solo exhibition at Langen Foundation, Neuss, and recently exhibited in solo and group shows at venues including de 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg; Palais Populaire, Berlin; MUDEC, Milan; and THE KING IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE QUEEN, curated by Udo Kittelmann at Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden. Maier has exhibited internationally, including Where have all the flowers gone? De 11 Lijnen, Belgium (2022); Feels like rabies, Société, Berlin (2022); Grenzgänge 2, König Galerie, Seoul (2021); Grenzgänge, Ruttkowski; 68, Cologne (2021); Die Zähmung, Kunstverein Heppenheim (2020); Domestic, König Galerie, Berlin (2020); Am Rothenbaum, Ruttkowski;68, Paris (2018); A. Tennis, Parallel Vienna, Vienna (2017); Coke First PT.II, BOLD Room, Los Angeles (2016); and many other group exhibitions at several institutions.
VIDEO
Short film by art/beats
INFO
Conny Maier
Beautiful Disasters
Curated by Udo Kittelmann
03/09/2023 - 07/04/2024
ABOUT
Maier’s large-scale paintings reflect on the polarities of dominance and submission, equilibrium and instability, the human and the non-human. In Beautiful Disasters, she responds to 21st century questions of immoderation and fundamental distrust of reason with relentlessly colorful answers. Misshapen figures, seen with wide open mouths and gelatinous appendages, often multi-breasted and donned in malformed headdresses, wander through her canvases in vivid, sweeping brush strokes. Her compositions oscillate between fascination and repulsion, beauty and the grotesque, to depict life beyond the expected. Considered together, Maier’s abstractions offer an unflinching look at the end of the Holocene and the realities of our new age and ask what kind of a new day might dawn.
About the artist: Conny Maier lives and works in Berlin and Baleal, Portugal. She was one of three recipients of Deutsche Bank’s prestigious Artists of the Year award in 2021. In September 2023, she will show a large-scale solo exhibition at Langen Foundation, Neuss, and recently exhibited in solo and group shows at venues including de 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg; Palais Populaire, Berlin; MUDEC, Milan; and THE KING IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE QUEEN, curated by Udo Kittelmann at Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden. Maier has exhibited internationally, including Where have all the flowers gone? De 11 Lijnen, Belgium (2022); Feels like rabies, Société, Berlin (2022); Grenzgänge 2, König Galerie, Seoul (2021); Grenzgänge, Ruttkowski; 68, Cologne (2021); Die Zähmung, Kunstverein Heppenheim (2020); Domestic, König Galerie, Berlin (2020); Am Rothenbaum, Ruttkowski;68, Paris (2018); A. Tennis, Parallel Vienna, Vienna (2017); Coke First PT.II, BOLD Room, Los Angeles (2016); and many other group exhibitions at several institutions.
VIDEO
Exhibition video by art/beats