WANGECHI MUTU: MY DIRTY LITTLE HEAVEN
Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year 2010
25.06 - 12.09.2010

In her work, New York-based artist Wangechi Mutu, who was born in Kenya, addresses issues related to black female identity, Western consumer culture, African politics, and postcolonial history. She became known for her collages that vacillate between beauty and horror. By using various materials such as glitter, tape, or animal fur in combination with magazine clippings, she creates idiosyncratic pieces that present the female body in a distorted, seductive, or commanding way and in a state of constant transformation.

Image: Wangechi Mutu, Intertwined, 2003.© Wangechi Mutu and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

REHABILITATION
May 29 - August 15, 2010

Rehabilitation, a term which refers to the renovation and the historical preservation of architecture in order to give it new life serves as a thematic red thread for this group exhibition that looks at how a generation young artists both confront and appropriate the legacy of utopian concepts of modernist architecture and design. The rehabilitated Blomme-building Wiels offers an ideal context in which to critically examine how modernism in architecture is a persistent reference for a number of artists born after the so-called 'death' of modernist architecture. The resulting exhibition includes sculptures, films, collages, architectural models and installations.

Participating artists: Leonor Antunes, Alexandra Leykauf, David Maljkovic, Manfred Pernice, Tobias Putrih, Falke Pisano, Pia Rönicke, Oscar Tuazon, Armando Andrade Tudela, Up (Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Kris Kimpe)

Curated by Dirk Snauwaert with Elena Filipovic 

More information:
www.wiels.org