14.12. - 31.12.1996
Christian Boltanski (F) „Prolog“
Solo exhibtion at Arndt & Partner, Berlin
Christian Boltanski
Born 1944 in Paris, France
Lives and works in Malakoff, France
Christian Boltanski is one of the most internationally acclaimed artists of our time. In 2006 he was awarded the Praemium Imperiale. His artistic work revolves around the themes memory, death and loss.
For his solo exhibition at Arndt & Partner in 1996, Christian Boltanski created the work "Reliquaire - Les Lingesin".
Relics are no longer those of saints, but vestiges of anonymous people, traces of strangers, with which it seems to be a question of communicating.
Since the 1960s, he has worked with the ephemera of the human experience, from obituary photographs to rusted biscuit tins. Several of Boltanski's projects have used actual lost property from public spaces, such as railway stations, creating collections which memorialise the unknown owners in the cacophony of personal effects.
Boltanski has exhibited internationally at museums including: Muse d'art modern de la ville de Paris; Kunsthalle Wien; Stedelijk van Abbemuseum. Eindhoven; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angelis; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Malmö Konsthall; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo; Museum Ludwig Köln; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Regina Sofia, Madrid. His work has been featured in documenta (1972, 1986) at the Venice Biennale (1993, 1996, 2011), and at the Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh (1991).
EXHIBITION:
14.12. - 31.12.1996
Christian Boltanski
„Prolog“
Solo exhibition at Arndt & Partner, Berlin
Christian Boltanski, Reliquaire - Les Linges, 1996, black and white photography, fabrics and neon lights in a metal box, 91 x 91 x 31 cm Exhibitions