25 March to 9 October 2022

Someone Else. The foreignness of children

Museum für Neue Kunst

We are all children, someone's child, throughout our lives. Some of us are parents ourselves. We grow up in different family groupings, as well as cultural and social contexts that shape us. We are part of it all, whether we choose to be so or not. Nevertheless, we are all fundamentally different, a fact that separates us and makes us foreign to one another – even as children and parents, lovers and friends. 

Someone Else takes a look at this fundamental and lasting foreignness, which is by no means the result of estrangement. What does it actually mean for the way we coexist? Not to mention our notions of familiarity and otherness? What does it mean for our identity and our dealings with others?

The works of international artists explore these issues. Erik Levine discovered film recordings in his father's estate after his death. They show him as an unknown person who kept much of his life concealed from his son. Jamie Diamond assembles groups of strangers for her putative family portraits and thus plays with viewers' expectations. Omer Fast's film Continuity looks at with what happens when parents cannot accept the loss of their child. After the death of their son, a couple stages his return with alternating actors.

With: Steve Carr | Larry Clark | Jamie Diamond | Jimmie Durham | Omer Fast | Ronnie van Hout | Ragnar Kjartansson | Erik Levine | Alex McQuilkin | Karam Natour | Véréna Paravel | Lucien Castaing-Taylor | Chloe Piene | Ben Rivers | Anri Sala | Liina Siib | Dominik Sittig | SNFU | Louk Vreeswijk | Wladimir Zabotin

Kjartansson, Ragnar, Me and My Mother, 2010, 2010 Courtesy: the Artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik.
Kjartansson, Ragnar, Me and My Mother, 2010, 2010
Courtesy: the Artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik.
Ronnie van Hout, Be Someone Else, 1997Courtesy: the Artist and Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Ronnie van Hout, Be Someone Else, 1997Courtesy: the Artist and Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Rivers, Ben, Ah Liberty!, 2008 Courtesy: the Artist and Kate MacGarry Gallery
Rivers, Ben, Ah Liberty!, 2008
Courtesy: the Artist and Kate MacGarry Gallery
Natour, Karam, Heat in my Head, 2015 Courtesy the Artist and Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
Natour, Karam, Heat in my Head, 2015
Courtesy the Artist and Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
Jamie Diamond, The Hiltons, aus der Serie Constructed Family Portraits, 2007- on-going Courtesy the Artist und KEWENIG Galerie
Jamie Diamond, The Hiltons, aus der Serie Constructed Family Portraits, 2007- ongoing Courtesy the Artist und KEWENIG Galerie
Paravel, Véréna / Castaing-Taylor, Lucien, Commensal, 2017 Courtesy the Artists and LUX, London
Paravel, Véréna / Castaing-Taylor, Lucien, Commensal, 2017
Courtesy the Artists and LUX, London
Carr, Steve, Car Smash, 2002 Courtesy the Artist and Michael Lett, Auckland New Zealand
Carr, Steve, Car Smash, 2002
Courtesy the Artist and Michael Lett, Auckland New Zealand
Jamie Diamond, The Al Bustans, aus der Serie Constructed Family Portraits, 2007- ongoing Courtesy the Artist und KEWENIG Galerie
Jamie Diamond, The Al Bustans, aus der Serie Constructed Family Portraits, 2007- ongoing Courtesy the Artist und KEWENIG Galerie
Sittig, Dominik, Mit Puppen, 1965, 2018 Courtesy: Saskia Draxler Photo© Simon Vogel
Sittig, Dominik, Mit Puppen, 1965, 2018
Courtesy: Saskia Draxler Photo © Simon Vogel
 Fast, Omer, Continuity, 2012 Courtesy gb agency, Paris
Fast, Omer, Continuity, 2012
Courtesy gb agency, Paris
Ausstellungsansicht "Someone Else. Die Fremdheit der Kinder", Foto: Bernhard Strauss
Ausstellungsansicht "Someone Else. Die Fremdheit der Kinder", Foto: Bernhard Strauss
Ausstellungsansicht "Someone Else. Die Fremdheit der Kinder", Foto: Bernhard Strauss
Ausstellungsansicht "Someone Else. Die Fremdheit der Kinder", Foto: Bernhard Strauss
Ausstellungsansicht "Someone Else. Die Fremdheit der Kinder", Foto: Bernhard Strauss
Ausstellungsansicht "Someone Else. Die Fremdheit der Kinder", Foto: Bernhard Strauss

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