Group exhibition
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen
06.12.2024 - 15.06.2025

Seeing and being seen are reciprocal. When we see something, we are also looked at and touched. The eyes play a key part when it comes to generating and questioning emotions, power relations and social constructs because things are ordered and fixed in the gaze. In a world that is largely centred on the sense of sight, as well as in artistic practice, seeing takes centre stage as a matter of course. Because things are organised and fixed in the gaze. Something shows itself and simultaneously withdraws, so that what is seen and visible also creates a trace of the absent and invisible.

The exhibition with works from both the Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection and the Contemporary Art Collection invites visitors to explore seeing and the gaze itself – with all its facets and across all media.


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Photo: John Baldessari, Baldessari sings LeWitt,1971, Still, MGKSiegen, Contemporary Art Collection © John Baldessari