Vertauschte Köpfe
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Dreisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch/slowenisch) / trilingual edition (English/German/Slovenian) Vertauschte Köpfe is being published in conjunction with the first joint exhibition by the brothers Andreas and Konrad Mühe at KUNSTWERK Sammlung Klein. How can these siblings—who could hardly be less alike—collaborate on an equal footing, harmonizing their respective artworks? Uniting them is an intensive preoccupation with their family’s history. And their differences are mutually complementary: while the first is concerned with the way in which the family history is interwoven with German history, the second addresses the relationship between human and technological bodies, as well as their political subtexts in the contemporary world. Not unlike a family whose members tell divergent stories about one another, the catalog takes up various temporal levels and narrative strands. Vertauschte Köpfe hence encompasses multiple books that refer to and challenge one another: the works of Andreas and Konrad Mühe engage in an interplay with texts by Valeria Waibel, Karsten Ehlers, Monika Maron, Kito Nedo, and a comic strip by Gregor Hinz. Hovering in the air is the question: How solid is the substrate of their shared foundation?
Konrad Mühe is a sculptor and video artist. In his sculptures, immaterial projections, physical objects, and video content form a conceptual unity. Since 2017, he has produced the so-called “projection beings” that display expressive human qualities while investigating sociopolitical issues relating to the perception and impact of images, as well as to the construction of identity.
Andreas Mühe achieved international recognition as an artist through his preoccupation with the German past and German identity. Often, there is a certain ambivalence inherent in his analog photographs, which reference the no-longer-visible but nonetheless still palpable aftermath of German historiography. His most recent solo exhibition, “Stories of Conflict”, took place in 2022 at the Stadel Museum in Frankfurt am Main.