Douglas Gordon at the Museum für Moderne Kunst of Frankfurt

At the close of the year marking the twentieth anniversary of the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, (Frankfurt, Germany) the museum devotes itself entirely to photography and video art. A solo exhibition on Douglas Gordon will await the visitor in the MMK main building.

In addition to the major film and video installations that made Gordon famous, the MMK will also be presenting photographs, texts and sculptures. A magnum opus from the MMK collection will form the show’s point of departure: on two freestanding screens, Play Dead: Real Time (2003) will project life-size close-ups of an elephant’s massive body moving through a bright empty space.

Along with photo installations rich in imagery, for example Straight to Hell; No Way Back and very recent additions to the series Self-Portrait of You + Me, the exhibition will also present three further video works by the artist. One of them, his 2006 film on Zinedine Zidane, will be installed at the MMK on seventeen separate screens for the first time. Each screen will show a different perspective, all of which were shot with high-speed cameras. Gordon and his co-author Philippe Parreno thus created a football portrait of the twenty-first century.

Date: until March 25.
Location: Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt Am Main. Domstraße 10  60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Opening hours: from Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm. Wednesdays from 10am to 8pm.