This autumn we present new and recent work by the German
artist Manfred Pernice in baldt1, his first solo exhibition in a
UK public gallery. The exhibition focuses on developments
in Pernice’s practice over the last three years, in particular a
passage of work the artist describes as Sonderausstellung
(special exhibition). Sonderausstellung in many ways constitutes the development of a new artistic strategy for Pernice, one that provides a conceptual and physical housing in which to locate his formal, investigative work. Describing
these installations as ‘an exhibition within an exhibition’, recent projects are more overtly domestic in their resonance, a world of interiority and human scale activity.

The core of baldt1 is a large-scale sculpture. Split into four
quadrants the sculpture houses part of the exhibition, its
content rearticulated and modified as it journeys from place
to place. Reflecting on the complex relationship between sculpture, visual art, architecture, city-building and human
stories of time and place, Pernice creates objects and sculptures that suggest themselves as already existing in everyday life, formed of a language that is distinctively recognisable.

The exhibition is organised by Modern Art Oxford in
collaboration with Dundee Contemporary Arts and SMAK,
Ghent. An illustrated publication will be available.

Manfred Pernice, "Tutti", 2010

Photography by Stuart Whipps

Event Dates

• Exhibition: Upper Galleries 01.10.2010 — 21.11.2010

  New and recent work by the German artist Manfred Pernice

• Manfred Pernice in Conversation 01.10.2010 at 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

  2pm, £5 / £4 concessions, free to Friends, booking essential. Join us for a conversation between Manfred Pernice and Michael Stanley, Director of Modern Art Oxford and the curator of Pernice’s exhibition.

• Lunchtime tour 06.10.2010 at 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

  1pm, free, just turn up. Join members of the Modern Art Oxford team for a tour of the exhibitions.

• Exhibition Talk 14.10.2010 at 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

  7pm, £3 booking essential. Céline Condorelli gives a talk on Manfred Pernice, considering his work in relation to her research into Support Structures. Condorelli works with art and architecture, combining a number of approaches from developing structures for ‘supporting’ to broader enquiries into forms of commonality and discursive sites. She is the author / editor of Support Structures, Sternberg Press, 2009, and one of the founding directors of Eastside Projects.

• Lunchtime tour 20.10.2010 at 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

  1pm, free, just turn up. Join members of the Modern Art Oxford team for a tour of the exhibitions.

• Exhibition tour 22.10.2010 at 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

  6pm, free, just turn up. Richard Woods, the first artist commissioned to redesign Modern Art Oxford’s Yard and café, leads a tour of Manfred Pernice’s exhibition.

• Schnellkritik! 29.10.2010 at 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

  7pm, free booking essential. A fastmoving, experimental evening giving a series of 4-minute responses to Pernice’s exhibition,

• Lunchtime tour 03.11.2010 at 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

  1pm, free, just turn up. Join members of the Modern Art Oxford team for a tour of the exhibitions.

• Exhibition tour 13.11.2010 at 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

  3pm, free, just turn up. Join Emily Smith, Exhibition Organiser at Modern Art Oxford for a tour of Manfred Pernice’s exhibition.

• Lunchtime tour 17.11.2010 at 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

  1pm, free, just turn up. Join members of the Modern Art Oxford team for a tour of the exhibitions.

Event Support & Sponsors

Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., The Henry Moore Foundation

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