Jef Verheyen, holding his work Le Vide (The Void)against the sky, ca. 1965; photo: Gerald Dauphin / Collection Fotomuseum, Antwerpen
Johanna von Monkiewitsch, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 2017, video installation, loop; installation view “pass on”, Berthold Pott Gallery, Cologne; Courtesy the artist and Berthold Pott Gallery, Cologne © Johanna von Monkiewitsch
Collaborating artist Johanna von Monkiewitsch her work goes in dialogue with the traveling retrospection exhibition of Jef Verheyen. After the 'Jef Verheyen. Window on Infinity' exhibition in KMSKA, Antwerp where the oeuvre of Verheyen goes in dialogue with many avant-garde and contemporary artists, the exhibition moves to Morsbroich Leverkusen. In the exhibition 'gegen den Himmel. against the sky', the oeuvre of Jef Verheyen engages in a one-on-one dialogue with the work of Johanna von Monkiewitsch.Gallery Sofie Van de Velde congratulates Johanna von Monkiewitsch, Gallery Berthold Pott, estate Jef Verheyen, curator Thekla Zell, and Museum Morsbroich on this major exhibition.
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The exhibition gegen den Himmel. against the sky is dedicated to supposedly simple and obvious: light, color, space, and their perception. For the first time, it brings together the monochrome paintings of Belgian artist Jef Verheyen (1932–1984) with the multimedia works of Cologne-based artist Johanna von Monkiewitsch (b. 1979 in Rome). The show marks the 90th birthday of Jef Verheyen, whose work is closely linked to the Museum Morsbroich’s exhibition activities in the early 1960s as well as the international ZERO movement that originated in the Rhineland. This dialogue with Johanna von Monkiewitsch’s site-specific light works, which are often based on ordinary, everyday situations, places Verheyen’s oeuvre in a contemporary context.
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