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Arts Festival Various Others

Munich – Mecca of contemporary art

Various Others offers contemporary art a platform in autumn where not only the entire Munich cultural landscape shows what it has to offer but where internationally renowned galleries are invited to get involved, too.

Various Others will take place this year from 03 to 05 May and from 05 to 15 September. Detailed information on the programme will follow, below is a review of last year.

Various Others – the idea

Pinakothek der Moderne, Museum Brandhorst, Haus der Kunst, Lenbachhaus, Sammlung Goetz, Lothringer 13 – in terms of the sheer number and quality of exhibition venues for contemporary art, Munich is on a par with the major art hubs in Europe and indeed all over the world.

From 7 to 24 September, Various Others provides the unique opportunity to see and discuss the full range of international contemporary art at numerous venues throughout Munich.

From the very beginning, the idea was to bring together local protagonists and international galleries to pursue exhibition projects in Munich.

Now in its sixth year, Various Others has already established itself as an internationally acclaimed art event. From the very beginning, the idea was to bring together local protagonists and international galleries to pursue exhibition projects in Munich. The initiative attaches equal importance to the exchange between private galleries and public institutions as it does to promoting dialogue between the Munich art scene and the international world of art.

In 2023, 17 international partner galleries and more than 190 national and international artists are part of the programme. They enrich Munich’s offerings not least with the addition of several stars of the international art scene. Naturally, the aim is to find buyers for the works, but this highly communicative art festival is also explicitly aimed at anyone with an interest in art.

In view of the opportunities for dialogue and the warm welcome offered by the galleries and all the other museums and art venues, as well as the outstanding quality of the exhibitions presented, a visit to Munich especially for the opening on this second weekend in September is highly recommended to all those interested.

In addition to exhibition openings in galleries, museums and off-spaces, Various Others offers an extensive programme of accompanying events: talks with the artists, guided tours of the exhibitions with the curators, performances, screenings, parties and concerts as well as book presentations and actions in public spaces for all those interested in art.

Various Others 2023 – the programme

Various Others is much appreciated for its firework display of first-class and innovative exhibitions. Galleries from Cologne, Düsseldorf, Vienna, Brussels, London, Paris, Athens, Florence, New York, Berkeley and Cape Town are contributing this year. We can look forward to the exhibitions that the Munich galleries have put together in cooperation with their international guests: For example, the galleries Veda from Florence and Lucas Hirsch from Düsseldorf are guests of the Munich gallery Sperling, JO VAN DE LOO welcomes the young Cologne gallery DREI, Jahn & Jahn cooperates with three international partners - the Stephen Friedman Gallery from London, with Gregor Podnar from Vienna and the Düsseldorf gallery Schönewald.

In view of the opportunities for dialogue and the warm welcome offered by the galleries and all the other museums and art venues, as well as the outstanding quality of the exhibitions presented, a visit to Munich especially for the opening on this second weekend in September is highly recommended to all those interested.

Galerie Klüser presents Isca Greenfield-Sanders with Paulson Fontaine Press from Berkeley, max goelitz has invited Nicolás Lamas by Meessen De Clercq from Brussels and Jeremy Shaw, and Galerie Walter Storms shows the Swiss artist Pia Fries with Miles McEnery Gallery from New York.

This year, for the first time, Rosa Stern Space and Galerie Britta Rettberg from Munich are taking part. Also new is a central exhibition from private collections in Munich in the Paul-Heyse-Villa behind the Glyptothek in Maxvorstadt.

Munich's art institutions also have some art highlights to offer: The Haus der Kunst presents, in addition to WangShui's first European solo exhibition, the presentation “In Other Spaces. Environments by Women Artists 1956-1976“, with expansive reconstructions of environments by women artists of three generations from Asia, Europe and North and South America.

Various Others is much appreciated for its firework display of first-class and innovative exhibitions.

In the year of its 200th anniversary, Kunstverein München presents the first institutional solo exhibition of the Palestinian video and performance artist Noor Abuarafeh in Germany. The Kunstraum München has been in existence since 1973, which is now 50 years. In the context of Various Others, Franz Erhard Walther and Santiago Sierra, two extraordinary artists from different generations, will meet there.

The complete programme for the opening weekend and the entire duration of Various Others will be published on variousothers.com at the end of July 2023.

 

 

Text: München Tourismus; Photos: PJ Rountree, Courtesy of the artist and Lucas Hirsch, Jens Ziehe, VG Bild-Kunst
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