Isa Genzken: World Receiver

Den Frie presents Isa Genzken: World Receiver, an exhibition bringing together landmark works from the German artist’s production over the past several decades, foregrounding a practice whose formal and material inventiveness has positioned her as one of the most influential artists of her generation. The exhibition marks Isa Genzken’s first institutional solo presentation in Scandinavia.

World Receiver is anchored in Genzken’s work with assemblage, in which she playfully yet incisively brings together everyday materials, utilitarian objects, luxury products, photographs, and text fragments. Her works function as seismographs, registering and absorbing cultural displacements. Here, punk and posh meet in a gaze that is both critical and filled with love for the commercialised and mediated reality that shapes our present. Beneath the bright colours and glittering surfaces, however, lurk the destructive forces of contemporary life—consumer culture, war, and inequality. And yet, Isa Genzken’s ambiguous works ultimately remain fundamentally open and hopeful in their orientation toward the future, no matter how weird it may become.

In addition to this exhibition, Isa Genzken’s 16-meter-tall sculpture Vollmond has been installed in front of Den Frie.

World Receiver is curated by Marianne Torp, Magnus Thorø Clausen and Sif Lindblad.

Learn more at Den Frie.