A captivating exhibition that offers an overview of the broad range of approaches to art making taken by a new generation of practitioners working in Europe today: from traditional painting and sculpture, the use of found objects and incorporation of industrial materials, to innovative photographic and digital works.

Works are drawn from a single collection, assembled with daring and passion by Sydney-based collectors Lisa and Danny Goldberg OAM.  Most works were created less than five years ago and represent the latest directions in European contemporary art.  Many of the artists have established reputations, such as Urs Fischer, Katharina Grosse, Ugo Rondinone, Wolfgang Tillmans and Rudolf Stingel, but the exhibition also includes artists whose inventiveness and humour suggest that that they may well be the leaders of the next generation.  Danny Goldberg himself states that the act of collecting contemporary art is the “acquisition of work that is untested … not yet been written into art history”.

Image:
Katharina Grosse o.T. 2014 
Collection of Lisa and Danny Goldberg OAM
© the artist, image courtesy the artist and KÖNIG Galerie

Presented at CMAG with the support of the Delegation of the European Union to Australia in the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018.

EXHIBITING ARTISTS

Jean-Marie Appriou­
Born 1986, Brest, France. Lives and works in Brest and Paris

Martin Boyce
Born 1967, Hamilton, UK. Lives and works in Glasgow

Daniel Buren 
Born 1938, Boulogne-Billancourt, France. Lives and works in situ

Valentin Carron
Born 1977 Martigny, Switzerland. Lives and works in Martigny

Thea Djordjadze
born 1971 Tbilisi, Georgia. Lives and works in Cologne, Germany

Matias Faldbakken
Born 1973 Hobro, Denmark. Lives and works in Oslo

Urs Fischer
Born 1973, Zurich, Switzerland. Lives and works in New York

Simon Fujiwara
Born 1982, London. Lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City

Katharina Grosse
Born 1961, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin

Camille Henrot
Born 1978, Paris. Lives and works in New York

Secundino Hernández
Born 1975 Madrid, Spain; lives and works in Madrid, Spain and Berlin, Germany

Yngve Holen
Born 1982, Braunschweig, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin

Cameron Jamie
Born 1969 Los Angeles, USA. Lives and works in Paris

Sergej Jensen
Born 1973 Maglegaard, Denmark. Lives and works in New York 

Sanja Kantarovsky
Born 1982, Moscow. Lives and works in New York

Michael Krebber
Born 1954 Cologne, Germany. Lives and works in Cologne

Alicja Kwade
Born 1979 Katowice, Poland. Lives and works in Berlin

Jim Lambie
Born 1964 Glasgow, United Kingdom; lives and works in Glasgow, United Kingdom

Mark Leckey
Born 1964 Birkenhead, UK. Lives and works in London

Klara Liden
Born 1979 Stockholm, Sweden. Lives and works in Berlin and New York City

Sarah Lucas
born 1962 London, United Kingdom. Lives and works in Suffolk and London, United Kingdom

Goshka Macuga
Born 1967 Warsaw, Poland. Lives and works in London

Helen Marten
Born 1985 Macclesfield, UK. Lives and works in London

Eddie Peake
Born 1981, London, UK. Lives and works in London

Magali Reus
Born 1981 The Hague, The Netherlands. Lives and works in London

Ugo Rondinone
Born 1964, Brunnen, Switzerland. Lives and works in New York

Rudolf Stingel
born 1956 Merano, Italy. Lives and works in New York City, United States and Merano, Italy

Wolfgang Tillmans
born 1968 Remscheid, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany and London, United Kingdom

Fredrik Vaerslev
Born 1979 Moss, Norway. Lives and works in Drøbak, Norway

Danh Vō
Born 1975, Bà Rịa, Vietnam, grew up in Denmark. Lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City

Charlene von Heyl
Born 1960, Mainz, Germany. Lives and works in New York

Nicole Wermers
Born 1971, Emsdettem, Germany. Lives and works in London

Rachel Whiteread
Born 1963, London. Lives and works in London

Heimo Zobernig
born 1958 Mauthen, Austria. Lives and works in Vienna, Austria