WKV Stuttgart: invitation

to the opening of the exhibition
LORENZA BÖTTNER. REQUIEM FOR THE NORM
(February 23 - May 5, 2019)
on Friday, Februar 22, 2019, 7 p.m.

From February 23 to May 5, 2019, the Württembergischer Kunstverein is presenting the first solo exhibition of the artist Lorenza Böttner (born 1959 in Punta Arenas, Chile, died 1994 in Munich) in Germany. Curated by philosopher, curator, and transgender activist Paul B. Preciado, this project is co-produced with La Virreina Centre de la Imatge in Barcelona, where the first part of this international retrospective was on display. In Stuttgart, the exhibition will be shown in an expanded form and with manifold additional works.
The work of Böttner, an artist who painted with her feet and mouth and who used photography, drawing, dance, installation, and performance as means of aesthetic expression, defies processes of desubjectivation and desexualisation, internment and invisibilization, to which transgender and functionally diverse bodies are subjected.
The exhibition is an irreverent and dynamic showcase of the rights of transgender and functionally diverse people, and a journey into the unique, remarkable work of an artist who is destined to become a classic of the twentieth century: as an indispensable contribution to the critism of the normalization of the body and of the social gender.

PROGRAM

Words of Welcome
MARTIN FRITZ
Chairman of the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart

Introduction
HANS D. CHRIST, IRIS DRESSLER
Directors of the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart

PAUL B. PRECIADO
Curator of the exhibition

Followed by Party
with special guest AEREA NEGROT (DJ, singer, performer / Berlin)
&
warm-up with SARANOW (DJ / Stuttgart)

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