Antje Majewski, My Very Gestures
In autumn the Salzburg Kunstverein presents a solo exhibition of the German artist Antje Majewski entitled „My Very Gestures”. For the first time the artist is bringing together different collections of her work from the last ten years, which deal with gesticulation, dance, expression, and costumes. Antje Majewski became known especially through series of realistic paintings, which grapple with existential questions like friendship, love, masquerade, and death. The subject also revolves around the development and change of individuals in relation to society, history, and social norms.
In her youth Majewski had already begun photographing her sisters in photo stories. Many of her images are based on staged photos with models, for which she designed settings, costumes, and face painting. In the past few years a dance theater piece and multiple films have emerged in which she conveyed the stagings with actors in movement. Paintings and films work together in the exhibition.
An extensive publication designed by Middlecott, is being released from Sternberg Press in New York and Berlin for the exhibition.



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