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Dancing with Myself

The Museum Folkwang exhibited works from Venice’s Pinault Collection.

Works by ULRIKE ROSENBACH, ADEL ABDESSEMED and LILLY REYNAUD-DEWARD. (Installation view "Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang). Photo: Museum Folkwang, Andreas Langfeld, 2016
Works by ULRIKE ROSENBACH, ADEL ABDESSEMED and LILLY REYNAUD-DEWARD. (Installation view "Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang). Photo: Museum Folkwang, Andreas Langfeld, 2016

In 2017 the Museum Folkwang exhibited works from Venice’s Pinault Collecting in “Dancing with Myself”.

“Dancing with Myself” is a collaboration between the Museum Folkwang and the Pinault Collection, and takes the audience on a journey through art history of the last fifty years, displaying works that are poetic as they are playful. The common thread among the works in “Dancing with Myself” is that the artists themselves play a major part in the show. Drawing from their bodies, identities and personal stories, the exhibition goes further than the conventional “self-portrait”, and moves into the realm of personality and attitude.

The exhibition features work from Claude Cahun, Maurizio Cattelan, Urs Fischer, Gilbert & George, Nan Goldin, Félix González-Torres, Rodney Graham, Steve McQueen, Boris Mikhaïlov, Helmut Newton, Roman Opalka, Charles Ray, Ulrike Rosenbach, Cindy Sherman and Jo Spence to name a few. Here, we show installation views from “Dancing with Myself” at Museum Folkwang.

Works by PAULOT NAZARETH. (Installation view "Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang). Photo: Museum Folkwang, Andreas Langfeld, 2016
Works by PAULOT NAZARETH. (Installation view "Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang). Photo: Museum Folkwang, Andreas Langfeld, 2016
BRUCE NAUMAN, For Beginners (all the combinations of the thumb and fingers), 2010. ("Installation view Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang). Courtesy Pinault Collection and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. © Bruce NaumanVG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016. Photo: Museum Folkwang, Manuel Reinartz, 2016
BRUCE NAUMAN, For Beginners (all the combinations of the thumb and fingers), 2010. ("Installation view Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang). Courtesy Pinault Collection and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. © Bruce NaumanVG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016. Photo: Museum Folkwang, Manuel Reinartz, 2016
Works by JOHN COPLANS, BRUCE NAUMAN and ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW. (Installation view "Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang). Photo: Museum Folkwang, Andreas Langfeld, 2016
Works by JOHN COPLANS, BRUCE NAUMAN and ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW. (Installation view "Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang). Photo: Museum Folkwang, Andreas Langfeld, 2016
Works by CINDY SHERMAN. (Installation view "Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang). Photo: Museum Folkwang, Sebastian Drüen, 2016
Works by CINDY SHERMAN. (Installation view "Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang). Photo: Museum Folkwang, Sebastian Drüen, 2016
Works by GILBERT & GEORGE. (Installation view "Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang). Photo: Museum Folkwang, Sebastian Drüen, 2016
Works by GILBERT & GEORGE. (Installation view "Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang). Photo: Museum Folkwang, Sebastian Drüen, 2016
Works by GILBERT & GEORGE and BORIS MIKHAÏLOV. (Installation view "Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang). Photo: Museum Folkwang, Andreas Langfeld, 2016
Works by GILBERT & GEORGE and BORIS MIKHAÏLOV. (Installation view "Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang). Photo: Museum Folkwang, Andreas Langfeld, 2016
Works by CINDY SHERMAN, URS LÜTHI and CLAUDE CAHUN. (Installation view "Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang). Photo: Museum Folkwang, Andreas Langfeld, 2016'
Works by CINDY SHERMAN, URS LÜTHI and CLAUDE CAHUN. (Installation view "Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang). Photo: Museum Folkwang, Andreas Langfeld, 2016'
Installation view "Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang. Photo: Museum Folkwang, Sebastian Drüen, 2016
Installation view "Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang. Photo: Museum Folkwang, Sebastian Drüen, 2016
Works by RUDOLF STINGEL. (Installation view "Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang). Photo: Museum Folkwang, Sebastian Drüen, 2016
Works by RUDOLF STINGEL. (Installation view "Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang). Photo: Museum Folkwang, Sebastian Drüen, 2016
Work by ALIGHIERO BOETTI. (Installation view "Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang). Photo: Museum Folkwang, Sebastian Drüen, 2016
Work by ALIGHIERO BOETTI. (Installation view "Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang). Photo: Museum Folkwang, Sebastian Drüen, 2016
Work by MAURICIO CATTELAN. (Installation view "Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang). Photo: Museum Folkwang, Sebastian Drüen, 2016
Work by MAURICIO CATTELAN. (Installation view "Dancing with Myself", Museum Folkwang). Photo: Museum Folkwang, Sebastian Drüen, 2016