JUTTA KOETHER (EDITION II)
Touch and Resist
In her new performance 'Touch and Resist', leading artist Jutta Koether merges the art of painting with other disciplines, such as performance and music. For Koether, painting is not an autonomous medium, but rather a 'vehicle'. She said in an interview that painting, for her, could as easily be a flyer, piece of scenery or music. Koether’s work is an intense exploration of feminist ideas in relation to painting.
In her new performance 'Touch and Resist', leading artist Jutta Koether merges the art of painting with other disciplines, such as performance and music. For Koether, painting is not an autonomous medium, but rather a 'vehicle'. She said in an interview that painting, for her, could as easily be a flyer, piece of scenery or music. Koether’s work is an intense exploration of feminist ideas in relation to painting.
May 21 + May 22, 2007, Huis a/d Werf, Studio 2 and 3 - 'Touch and Resist' is co-produced by Huis & Festival a/d Werf
Leibhaftige Malerei and Leibhaftige Malerei [red version]
Jutta Koether is one of the central figures in contemporary painting. Yet she is more than just a painter. She is also a performance artist, musician, writer and theoretician. Her role as an artist was long reduced to being regarded as a feminist response to the Cologne scene of the late 1980s. With her translucent color fields, the gestural brush stroke, drawings of female bodies and the lyrical appropriation of poetry and art history, she frequently seems to assume positions in contrast to artists such as Martin Kippenberger, Sigmar Polke and Albert Oehlen.
Her paintings reflect a critical position both toward the production and the reception of art. As she stated recently in an interview she has always been interested in: "European history when painting was still innovative." At the MuHKA she will show four paintings which are interpretations from two paintings by Rubens.
Jutta Koether is one of the central figures in contemporary painting. Yet she is more than just a painter. She is also a performance artist, musician, writer and theoretician. Her role as an artist was long reduced to being regarded as a feminist response to the Cologne scene of the late 1980s. With her translucent color fields, the gestural brush stroke, drawings of female bodies and the lyrical appropriation of poetry and art history, she frequently seems to assume positions in contrast to artists such as Martin Kippenberger, Sigmar Polke and Albert Oehlen.
Her paintings reflect a critical position both toward the production and the reception of art. As she stated recently in an interview she has always been interested in: "European history when painting was still innovative." At the MuHKA she will show four paintings which are interpretations from two paintings by Rubens.
28 October, 2007 - 6 January, 2008, MuHKA
'Leibhaftige Malerei', Jutta Koether, 2007. Courtesy Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin.
'Touch and Resist', Jutta Koether, May 2007, Fesitval a/d Werf
'Leibhaftige Malerei [Red Edition]', Jutta Koether, 2007. Courtesy Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin.
