An intervention by the artist Maria VMier occupies the center of Cy Twombly's Roses Gallery on the upper floor of Museum Brandhorst. Together with many companions, they explore the possibilities of an erotic, community-building appropriation of the museum.Over the course of two weeks, a project by Maria VMier, an artist working between New York and Munich, will take place at Museum Brandhorst. Together with many companions, they interweave research, texts, and objects with a textile intervention. A tent-like structure that they created with the textile artist Evelyn Sitter will occupy the center of Cy Twombly’s Roses Gallery.
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The ancient Greek symposium serves as a symbol; a format of gathering and exchange which, like the museum, is subject to many mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. The title, no: tongue breaks and thin fire is racing under skin, is taken from a poem by Sappho, the most famous female lyricist of antiquity, translated by Anne Carson. Throughout the duration of the project, various activations will take place. The last day of the intervention will conclude with a performance by @nnast_antn and a banquet, where Sappho appears as the imagined hostess.Sitter’s loosely woven and hand-dyed sheets play with the supposed violations of the rules of textile craftsmanship and enter into an exchange with the painterly gestures of VMier and Twombly. Within this symbolic space, VMier investigates the relationship of desire and power that exists between the institution and the marginalized local artist scene, as well as the possibilities of a community-building, erotic appropriation of the museum.Text: Museum BrandhorstPhotos: Dirk Tacke
