Robert Gober
06.10.2012 - 10.02.2013
In 1995/96, the American artist Robert Gober created the elaborate installation Split Wall with Drains specifically for the ground-floor hall at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst. The work will now be reassembled to form the center of an exhibition primarily dedicated to the works by Gober contained in the museum's own collections and the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation's holdings. After the grand survey exhibition held at the Basler Schaulager in 2007, the new show will offer audiences another opportunity to explore this eminent oeuvre, which is devoted to the production of replicas of domestic objects such as sinks, fireplaces, and drains as well as effigies of individual body parts and specific spaces with institutional or religious connotations, complemented here by a set of works selected by the artist himself.
