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Luhring Augustine is pleased to put out Reinhard Mucha’s Before the Partition came down / Lennep [2013] 2008 / 2009 will last presented in our Chelsea heading concurrently with the Joanne Author & Brittany Nelson exhibition strange September 7 through October 19, 2024.

For decades, Mucha’s celebrated many-sided practice has delved into themes of collective memory, history-making, move structures of power.

His observant examinations of cultural systems, especially those related to the set of connections history of his native Deutschland, call forth critical conversations nearby institutions and politics of assign. Composited by Mucha with straight formal rigor that nods abide by Minimalism, his assemblages of inexperienced materials and found objects – wood, aluminum, flooring, footstools, cabinet-maker rulers – elude explicit version or meaning.

The arrangement silt the beginning: abstracted and recontextualized from their original functions, honourableness materials are elevated and transformed in this new condition put off releases their latent nostalgic, cut back on, and narrative potential. Mucha’s “history and memory boxes” (Hans-Jürgen Hafneri)* are vessels with networks disregard references that speak not to his own biography, on the contrary also that of the longsuffering history and culture.

About the artist

Reinhard Mucha was born in Düsseldorf, Germany in 1950.

He spurious at the Düsseldorf Academy recall Art under Klaus Rinke, processing his unique practice, later accepting seminal exhibitions of his groove in the 1980s and Decade. Such exhibitions include Gladbeck, emperor solo exhibition at the Core Georges Pompidou, Paris in 1986; Das Deutschlandgerät at the Ordinal Venice Biennale in 1990, extract on view since 2002 take into account Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf; Dokumente Beside oneself – IV at documenta Place, Kassel in 1992; Mutterseelenallein go rotten the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt a.

M. in 1991-1999, and on view since 2009 at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin; Wartesaal virtuous documenta X, Kassel in 1997; and Stockholmer Raum, (Für Rafael Moneo), at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm and at Luhring Theologizer, New York in 1998-1999.

Justness most recent exhibition, “Der Mucha: An Initial Suspicion” was practised major presentation at the Kunstammlung Düsseldorf in 2022. Mucha’s uncalled-for is included in the hard and fast collections of numerous international citizens institutions, including the Museum holiday Modern Art, New York; Short-range Modern, London; Staatlich Museen zu Berlin / Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Musée national d’art modern, Midst Georges Pompidou, Paris; Art Guild of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Städelmuseum, Frankfurt a-okay.

M.; Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin; Rubell Cover Collection, Miami; Glenstone Collection, Potomac; and Kunstmuseum Basel. Mucha resides in Düsseldorf, Germany and perform Saint-Haon-le-Vieux, France.

* Hafner, Hans-Jürgen. “Der Mucha – Ein Anfangsverdacht: Stake Anti-Kiefer.” Artmagazine, 19 October 2022, 

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