Jeff Koons. The Painter & The Sculptor

The Schirn Kunsthalle and the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung (Frankfurt, Germany) will be devoting themselves to the work of the U.S. American artist Jeff Koons (born in 1955), who has played a pioneering role in the contemporary art world since the 1980s. The two concurrent shows will deliberately separate the sculptural and painterly aspects of his oeuvre and present each in a context of its own. Encompassing some forty paintings, the presentation entitled Jeff Koons. The Painter at the Schirn will focus primarily on the artist’s structural development as a painter.

With motifs drawn from a diverse range of high and pop-cultural sources, his monumental painted works combine hyper-realistic and gestural elements to form complexes as compact in imagery as they are with regard to content. In the show Jeff Koons. The Sculptor at the Liebieghaus, on the other hand, altogether around 50 world-famous as well as entirely new sculptures by Jeff Koons will enter into dialogues with the historical building and a sculpture collection spanning five millennia. Jeff Koons’s Antiquity, a new series in which he explores antique art and its central motif – Eros – will debut in Frankfurt on this occasion.

Dates: from June 20 to September 23.
Opening hours: from Tuesday to Friday and Sunday from 10am to 7pm. Wednesday and Thursday from 10am to 10pm.
Location: The Schirn Kunsthalle. Römerberg, D-60311 Frankfurt; Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Schaumainkai 71, D-60596 Frankfurt. Germany.

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