03/11/2023 - 21/01/2024

KIKI SMITH

FROM MY HEART

THE EXHIBITION

With its exhibition “From My Heart” the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München honors Kiki Smith’s special birthday on 18 January 2024. The Munich museum has close ties with the New York artist because Smith has been donating since 2015 and continues to donate her entire print oeuvre in editions to SGSM. Her generosity is renewed with her yearly sending new prints. Thanks to this liberal gesture, SGSM now boasts the internationally largest holdings of Kiki Smith prints.
Throughout Kiki Smith’s career the question of human existence (corporeal as well as metaphysical) has been at the focus of her creative output. In order to better understand the human body, she examined in her early work in the late 1970s human functions and body parts. She pioneered this theme as one of the first contemporary artists. Among the parts that captured her attention were organs, one of them the heart.

By focusing on the motif of the heart, the museum celebrates its close ties with Kiki Smith while offering a singular and concentrated perspective of her profound œuvre. With the choice of this theme, visitors are offered a sense of the artist’s formal and theoretical considerations. Fundamental questions regarding human existence are being raised and explored.

Kiki Smith (*1954) Drucker und Verleger: Thirteen Moons, New York Heart in Hand, 2015 Monoprint, Aquarell und Bleistift auf Losin Prague Papier 296 x 205 mm Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München Schenkung der Künstlerin Kiki Smith Photo: SGSM, © Kiki Smith
Kiki Smith (*1954)
Drucker und Verleger: Thirteen Moons, New York
Heart in Hand, 2015
Monoprint, Aquarell und Bleistift auf Losin Prague Papier
296 x 205 mm
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München
Schenkung der Künstlerin Kiki Smith
Photo: SGSM, © Kiki Smith

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