SCHIRN NEWSROOM: Maruša Sagadin: Luv Birds in toten Winkeln

MARUŠA SAGADIN: LUV BIRDS IN TOTEN WINKELN

September 21, 2023 – January 14, 2024

Who builds what, where, and for whom? Influenced by architectural history, Maruša Sagadin (b. 1978) examines the social aspects upon which a building or place is based. Her artistic work operates at the interface between private and public spaces and combines elements from architecture, sculpture, and painting. Sagadin employs humor and exaggeration in both her language of form and use of color to reveal mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion and to break with established codes of art observation.

Maruša Sagadin. Luv Birds in toten Winkeln, exhibition view, © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2023, Photo: Mareike Tocha

THE SCHIRN PRESENTS MARUŠA SAGADIN IN ITS PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE ROTUNDA WITH A NEW SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATION

In a playful and subversive manner, her works refer to elements of pop and subculture and applied art. In the interaction between gender, language, and sculpture, they subvert existing norms and thematize sculpture as a form of visualization. On the occasion of Slovenia’s presentation as guest of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2023, the artist is realizing new works in the Rotunda of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, which respond to the specific characteristics of this semipublic space.

CURATOR

Marie Oucherif, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

Interview with Maruša Sagadin

The artist Maruša Sagadin creates monumental sculptures that encourage visitors to linger. In the SCHIRN INTERVIEW she talks about her installation "Luv Birds in blind spots" and how she uses humor and exaggeration in her formal language as well as in the use of colors to reveal social mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in urban space and to break with established codes of viewing art.

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List of works of the exhibition "Maruša Sagadin: Luv Birds in toten Winkeln"

20.09.2023 | Here you can find the list of works as well as the floor plan of the exhibition "Maruša Sagadin: Luv Birds in toten Winkeln".

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Press information of the exhibition "Maruša Sagadin: Luv Birds in toten Winkeln"

27.07.2023 | The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents an installation of new works by Maruša Sagadin in its public rotunda from September 21, 2023 to January 14.

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