The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is dedicating a comprehensive retrospective to the internationally renowned artist Sarah Morris (*1967, Sevenoaks, UK). The exhibition shows more than one hundred works of art - including paintings, drawings, film posters, immersive film installations and a new site-specific mural - and pays tribute to Morris' influential work of the last thirty years.

Sarah Morris is known for her geometric paintings in vivid colors, which thematically deal with networks and systems, economy and architecture. Morris makes use of reality and pictorial abstraction in her works, which draw on the realism of Pop Art, American Minimalism and institutional critique. The artist sees her images as self-generating, open to interpretation, as an expression of movement and change; they convey to the viewer a heightened sense of always being part of a larger system.

In both her abstract paintings and her experimental films, Morris explores the "psychogeography" and the dynamic character of cities in transition. Her cinematic city portraits illustrate the connection between certain geographical conditions and economic production. The exhibition title refers to a present characterized by a widespread pessimism about culture and progress, the digitalization of human relationships and the failure of political and social structures.

The exhibition was organized by the Deichtorhallen Hamburg in collaboration with the Kunstmuseen Krefeld, the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern and the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart.

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