Michel Majerus is well-known for his large-scale paintings, expansive wall works, and monumental installations that embody an artistic reflection on the digital turn and the overflow of imagery that characterizes social networks today. The exhibition Michel Majerus at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein presents works by Majerus that are based on spatial interventions: an extensive video installation, key wall works and spatial designs, as well as sculptural models conceived for site-specific, large-scale projects which are presented here for the first time. They convey the intermedial specificity of his artwork, his reflections on mass media, and his method of creating spaces for nuanced aesthetic experiences.

With his practice of sampling existing images, Majerus challenged both the inflation of artistic expression in art history and traditional notions of what constitutes the value of an image. Through exaggeration, stylistic breaks, fragmentation, and targeted juxtapositions, he repeatedly questions the relationship of the images to reality – shattering their frame of reference or inserting them directly into the context of public and semi-public space.

On the last weekend of the exhibition, Michaela Richter and Sarah Johanna Theurer will jointly guide visitors through the exhibition and talk about Majerus' installation work as a central means of expression in his practice as well as its connections to technocultural developments.

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Sarah Johanna Theurer is a curator and writer focusing on time-based art practices and techno-social entanglements. She works at Haus der Kunst Munich, where she has produced numerous performances with artists like Isabel Lewis and Christelle Oyiri and new works by Carsten Nicolai and Jenna Sutela and curated retrospectives. In 2021, her essay "Michel Majerus: Stimulus Vortex" was published in Kaleidoscope Magazine (no. 38); in 2022, she spoke about the rhythm- and tempo-based iconography of Majerus's work in her lecture "Double Fire" at the symposium what looks good today may not look good tomorrow: The Legacy of Michel Majerus at MUDAM, Luxembourg.