to the
PRESS TOUR
of the exhibition
LORENZA BÖTTNER. REQUIEM FOR THE NORM
Friday, February 22, 2019, 11 a.m.

Dear representatives of the press,

With this email we cordially invite you to the press tour of the exhibition
"Lorenza Böttner. Requiem for the Norm" on Friday, February 22, 2019, 11 a.m. at the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart:

INTRODUCTION + TOUR THROUGH THE EXHIBITION
with Iris Dressler, Hans D. Christ (Directors of the Württembergischer Kunstverein) and Paul B. Preciado (Curator of the exhibition).

From February 23 until May 5, 2019, the Württembergischer Kunstverein presents the first monographic exhibition dedicated to the work of Lorenza Böttner (Punta Arenas, Chile, 1959 – Munic, Germany, 1994) 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.
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 invisibilisation to which transgender and functionally diverse bodies are subjected.
The exhibtion 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 20th century: as an indispensable contribution to the criticism of the normalization of the body and of the social gender.

The press release on the exhibition and on the program is found in the appendix. Press images are available on our website: www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en/press/

Please let me know if you should be interested in an interview with Paul B. Preciado. For further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me: +49 (0) 711 22 33 713 / mocko@wkv-stuttgart.de.

Kind regards,
Barbara Mocko
(Press and Public Relations)