Showing Cooking – Hiding Sex
Videoscreening & talk with Gabi Blum, Claudia Holzinger, Stephan Huber, and Anna Schölß
Gabi Blum, Showing Cooking – Hiding Sex, 2014, Videostill
Related Exhibition
Gabi Blum is restructuring her exhibition Raum ohne Wände (Space Without Walls) at the Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren and, for the final month, is showing the 7-channel video work Showing Cooking – Hiding Sex,(2014), for which she portrayed several family members in their everyday lives. Blum herself slips into the role of Jeanne Dielman from the film of the same name by Chantal Akerman and cooks a simple potato and bread soup. Finally, all the people filmed take their seats and eat the soup that their grandmother used to cook for them – creating a fictional shared meal.
With her guests Claudia Holzinger, Stephan Huber, and Anna Schölß, who have also temporarily referred to their families or their homeland in their work, the conversation focuses on the importance of family and socialization for their own artistic practice.
The conversation will be followed by soup!
Claudia Holzinger ↓
Claudia Holzinger (born in 1985, lives in Buchbach and Vienna) works as a visual storyteller, using photography as her primary medium. In her photographic works and installations, she combines high and pop culture—from classical art to fan culture, reality TV, and kitsch—and uses her own body as a stage to negotiate themes such as body politics, identity, and cultural stereotypes, exposing absurd and tragicomic moments between comedy and discomfort. Her work has been shown at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin; Kunstpalais Erlangen; Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek; strobe, Tribeca, New York; and most recently at the 16th Rischart Project: ...Mischen in Munich. She is a member of the international photographers' collective Femxphotographers.org and part of the artist duos SÜSSHOLZ (with Sophia Süssmilch) and HOLZINGERurbat (with Lilly Urbat).
Stephan Huber ↓
Stephan Huber (born in 1952 in Lindenberg in Westallgäu, lives and works in Weiler near Bidingen in Ostallgäu) is a sculptor and object artist. His mostly large-format works, often realized in public spaces, generalize autobiographical motifs into universal symbols of social or emotional states that transcend the private sphere. With their opulent Catholic imagery, Huber's works follow in the tradition of the Baroque world theater with a specifically Bavarian character. His works have been exhibited internationally, including at P.S.1 in New York, documenta in Kassel, and the Biennale di Venezia. From 2004 to 2017, Stephan Huber was professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
Anna Schölß ↓
Anna Schölß (*1983) studied stage and costume design with Prof. Ezio Toffolutti and free painting with Prof. Jerry Zeniuk at the Academy of Fine Arts and lives in Kochel am See. Since 2020, she has been the initiator and curator of the exhibition series TRANSFORMATIONS. Since 2018, she has been running the K&K Bündnis Kunst und Kind München initiative together with Gabi Blum. Her works are created at the intersection of abstract painting, spatial installation, and experimental practice. In this dynamic area of tolerance, she questions media boundaries, specifically searching for breaks, transitions, and transformation processes—always in dialogue with socially relevant issues.
| Language | German |
| Entry | free |