With works by James Bantone, Heike Kati Barath, Michaël Borremans, Cihan Çakmak, Vajiko Chachkhiani, Rineke Dijkstra, Joëlle Dubois, Lucio Fontana, Katsura Funakoshi, Alex van Gelder, Gotthard Graubner, Thomas Grünfeld, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Ernst Hermanns, Edgar Hofschen, Jean Ipoustéguy, Elizabeth Jaeger, Tarik Kiswanson, Yves Klein, Imi Knoebel, Maria Lassnig, Simon Lehner, Francesco Lo Savio, Horst Münch, Juan Muñoz, Bruce Nauman,Grace Ndiritu, Tony Oursler, Arnulf Rainer, Pamela Rosenkranz, Thomas Schütte, Kiki Smith, Manabu Yamanaka, Franz Erhard Walther, Remy Zaugg

• walk & talk
  16th of July, 13th of August, 15th of October
  12 am
  
  Movements to the art togehter with the curators of Morsbroich
  - 16th of July: Dr. Fritz Emslander
  - 13th of August: Dr. Thekla Zell
  - 15th of October: Dr. Thekla Zell
  
  Please contact us: by Phone +49 21 44 06 45 00 or by mail info@morsbroich.de

From the perspective of the artwork, the viewer is a counterpart. Presence occurs in the here and now between an I and a you, also between artwork and viewer. Because of its openness, an artistic work has the ability - unlike a personally addressed letter - to address all those who view it in a very individual way. This direct address can take place in very different ways and depends on the respective counterpart. To what extent are the viewers willing to be touched aesthetically, moved emotionally, inspired spiritually, or irritated in their understanding of themselves and the world?

yours truly, creates an arrangement of figurative as well as abstract and concrete works of art, which enter into dialogues with each other that are as non-obvious as they are provocative, and which nevertheless always first seek a dialogue with the viewer. In front of the figurative work of a single figure, it is easy to place oneself in relation to it. It is even relatively obvious to feel addressed as oneself. In the case of a concrete, decidedly non-representational work, this seems quite different. But these works, too, provoke visual experiences that can become existential in relation to the viewing counterpart.

It is in this sense that the exhibition staging yours truly, sees itself as a foundation for a new museum of the present. A structure of about forty works by just as many artists, which will be in constant motion for half a year. In this way, new neighborhoods of works will emerge again and again, to which the visitors will have to relate in a new way. Contemporary positions and selected works from the museum collection will be shown.

yours truly, would like to become a stimulating space in which each individual / each individual asks him/herself the question about the 'I' again and again. IT TAKES AN 'I' TO SAY 'WE'. We understand this (half) sentence of the poet Barbara Köhler, who died in 2021, as a fundamental motto. The sentence by no means ends accidentally with a comma. It opens up a space for the reader to continue writing and thinking. yours truly, it is not about a further celebration of the egoism threatening our societies, but about other, precisely sensual forms of the question of the I: How much you is in the I? What are the central qualities of an 'I' that make a person capable of what future? Are they empathy and openness, curiosity and impartiality, self-acceptance and vulnerability, confidence and joy, lightness and passion, courage and fear? What role do origin, education and cultural imprinting play? When is an ego a strong ego? And what role do body and sensuality play?

yours truly,Morsbroich – can a museum for contemporary art 'really be yours'? What changes when visitors allow the works of art on display there to address themselves? What if a museum 'extends a friendly greeting' to its guests? And how does the guests' respective relationship to the artwork change when a staging consistently poses the question of the 'I', i.e. (also) of the respective 'I' of the guest?

yours truly, opens a first of five future thematic clusters on which we would like to work in Morsbroich in the coming years. In this first cluster, I, You, and We and their multifaceted relationships will be the topic. A possible title for this cluster could be Barbara Köhler's sentence: IT TAKES A ME TO SAY WE,

The opening of yours truly, will take place on May 13, 2023 as part of the Morsbroich Art Days 04 (May 12-14, 2023). For more on the Kunsttage program, visit www.morsbroich.de.

Characteristic of the work on the "present museum" started by Museum Morsbroich in 2022 is that the exhibitions are constantly reinvented under fixed auspices. The first of these was the spielzeit, developed in two parts, from May 2022 to May 2023, which at the same time established the "Morsbroich Workshop": a selected group of artists who will accompany the museum and the new conception of the entire complex (the Morsbroich ensemble) over several years.

Some project spaces of the Werkstatt Morsbroich (Parklabyr, Antje Schiffer's project with the Obstgut Morsbroich) as well as parts of the collection (the Schauraum) can be seen parallel to yours truly, in the first floor rooms of Museum Morsbroich.

For background, two links:
Das ›gegnwärtige Museum‹ - Museum Morsbroich (museum-morsbroich.de)
Werkstatt Morsbroich - Museum Morsbroich (museum-morsbroich.de)