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 interdisciplinary 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
