Installation View October 21, 2006-January 14, 2007, "Heart of Darkness: Kai Althoff, Ellen Gallagher and Edgar Cleijne, Thomas Hirschhorn," The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Courtesy of the artists, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Gladstone Gallery, New York

ZURICH.- Kunsthalle Zürich presents Kai Althoff – “In Any Case, I Wish you ill”, on view through January 13, 2007. Kai Althoff (born in Cologne in 1966 where he lives and works) belongs to a young generation of German artists and is surely one of its most extraordinary representatives with a large international radius and significance. The exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich represents the artist’s first solo project in Europe for a long time, while in Switzerland it is, in fact, his very first presentation.
Kai Althoff works with a broad spectrum of media, from sculpture via installation, film and photography, up to performance, music, graphic prints and book design. Narrative elements shape his work and make a personal, direct and inescapable demand on the viewers’ involvement. The artist’s place of presentation for his works is never a white cube, but always an all-encompassing locality that Kai Althoff has transformed into an area for a ‘private’ experience of his works composed of everyday materials: carpeting, wall hangings, draperies, partitions, atmospheric coloring, smells and intimacies. It is as if we were suddenly granted access to the long locked chamber of an individual obsession.
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