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Eclectic Affinities brings the extensive work of the artist Hamid Zénati, who was born in Constantine (Algeria) in 1944 and died in Munich in 2022, into dialogue with various objects from the collection of the Museum Angewandte Kunst. With his all-over stencil technique, Zénati developed a distinct formal language and created compositions that were both playful and powerful. His paintings on textiles, ceramics, and furniture, as well as his approach to photography, challenge established boundaries and genres by moving between the realms of design, art, and interior design. In nine chapters the exhibition focuses on different aspects, enabling a new perspective on the practice of an individualist and autodidact whose observations of social, cultural, and artistic movements organically flowed into his work. It also elicits unconventional approaches to the collection objects selected by the curators in relation to Zénati’s work. Loans from the Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art and the Walther Collection (Neu-Ulm/New York) create further points of reference.

More information about the exhibition Eclectic Affinities. Hamid Zénati and the Collection of the Museum Angewandte Kunst can be found here.

The Frankfurt collective GG VYBE is much more than just a group of seven DJs – they are pioneers of a new era in the club scene. A club scene that is characterized by a passion for music, inclusion, diversity and solidarity. They play diverse sounds and genres and, as organizers and cultural-political actors, they are also actively committed to a progressive urban and club culture. GG VYBE impressively demonstrate how the foundation of music creates a space that offers warmth, cohesion, support and security.

Curtis Talwst Santiago (b. 1979, Edmonton, Alberta) is a transdisciplinary artist of Trinidadian origin whose work is centered on the diasporic experience, transculturalism and memory. Key to Santiago’s oeuvre is the idea of entanglements shaping the consciousness of the postcolonial condition. A singer and performer, he reconnects with music as part of an identity that is transmitted from one generation to the next. Santiago is best known for his miniature dioramas, which recreate personal stories, shed light on underrepresented histories or serve as creative retellings of events that are inherent to the struggle of the Black diaspora.

Curtis Talwst Santiago lives and works in Munich. Early in his practice he studied as an apprentice of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun. He has exhibited internationally at venues such as The Drawing Center and the New Museum, New York; Yale University Art Gallery; the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University; the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University; the Pérez Art Museum Miami; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; and the 2018 and 2022 Dakar Biennale in Senegal. In 2021, he was an Artist in Residence at Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock Senegal. In 2022, he was a visiting professor and Artist in Residence at the University of Tennessee and in 2023, an Artist in Residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and Fountainhead in Miami. In the fall/winter semester 2024/2025, he is a guest professor at the Academy of Fine Arts (AdBK) of Munich.