Keith Sonnier
The US American artist Keith Sonnier (1941-2020) rose to prominence in the 1960s with works that broadened the traditional understanding of sculpture and used everyday materials such as neon tubes, latex, foam or found industrial materials. He belongs to the generation of post-minimalists that includes Gary Kuehn, Eva Hesse, Robert Morris and Richard Serra, and is one of the first and most important artists to discover light as an independent medium. Through his continuous experimentation he created sculptures and room installations with directly or indirectly illuminated elements. Keith Sonnier was part of the iconic exhibitions "Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form" at the Kunsthalle Bern, 1969 and "Eccentric Abstraction" at the Fischbach Gallery in New York, 1966. In 2018, the Parrish Art Museum and the New Orleans Museum of Art presented comprehensive retrospectives of the artist.
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inventing the past | group show
10 September - 23 October 2021 MunichThe international group exhibition inventing the past with Neïl Beloufa, Natacha Donzé, Lou Jaworski, Haroon Mirza and Keith Sonnier follows closely on the heels of the show chasing another tomorrow and, as a second chapter, signifies a change of perspective in terms of time. The diverse artistic positions are...continue reading -
chasing another tomorrow | group show
2 July - 31 August 2021 MunichThe international group exhibition chasing another tomorrow with works by Neïl Beloufa, Natacha Donzé, Haroon Mirza and Keith Sonnier is devoted to questions about different visions of the future and the respective effects of technology on humankind and the present day. Back in the 1970s, there was still a positive...continue reading -
take me to | group show
2 April - 27 June 2020 MunichThe newly formed gallery max goelitz opens on April 2, 2020, with the multimedia group exhibition "take me to". The title affirmatively references both the continuation of a previous conceptual direction and, in its openness, a future to be created and defined.continue reading
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exhibition | istanbul, tr
brigitte kowanz & keith sonnier are on view at borusan contemporary art collection 15 April 2024The exhibition Hyper Digital Forces in the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection presents selected works that explore experimental approaches in new media art, shaped by digital...continue reading -
exhibition | munich, de
max goelitz x kunstraum9 present the exhibition dilated time: luminous perspectives 14 October 2023The privately run KunsTraum9 and max goelitz jointly present the group exhibition Dilated Time: Luminous Perspectives by bringing together the works of six international artists:...continue reading
