Never Ending Stories - Aleida Assmann Jan Assmann Ralf Beil Claudia Dillmann Stefan Fricke Joachim Kalka Stefan Klein Sloterdi Gebunden

The loop is omnipresent-whether in music and video art or hotel lobbies and living rooms where flickering flames or aquariums with ceaselessly darting fish run continually on monitors. At the same time the self-contained circuit the endless loop has been a theme in the fields of cultural history alchemy religion and philosophy since classical antiquity at the latest. With Never Ending Stories the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg presents the first extensive examination of the loop phenomenon in art film architecture music literature and cultural history taking a comprehensive interdiscipl inary look at the subject as regards time and place as well as form and content. The exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive scholarly catalogue edited by Ralf Beil which will shed light on this multifaceted theme examining it from the aspects of science literature and creativity. Featuring thirteen essays numerous original sources and more than three hundred illustrations this catalogue is a foundational work that revolves persistently around its theme constantly opening up new and surprising perspectives and insights. With works by: Adel Abdessemed Abramovic Ulay Francis Alÿs Robert Barta Thomas Bayrle Max Beckmann Joseph Beuys Michel Blazy Etienne-Louis Boullée Marcel Broodthaers Julio Cortázar Salvador Dalí Marcel Duchamp Thomas A. Edison Omer Fast Léon Ferrari Sandra Filic Robert Filiou Fischli Weiss Robert Fludd Douglas Gordon Rodney Graham Max Grau Anton Henning Seikô Hirata James Joyce William Kentridge Athanasius Kircher Ragnar Kjartansson Kraftwerk Yayoi Kusama Stanley Kubrick Robert Müller Juan Muñoz Eadweard Muybridge Bruce Nauman Markus Raetz Bridget Riley Peter Roehr Raymond Roussel Gregor Schneider Richard Serra Schunsô Shôju Nedko Solakov Daniel Spoerri Gertrude Stein Roland Topor Salla Tykkä Günther Uecker Andy Warhol et al. Exhibition: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg 29.10.2017-18.2.2018