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Helmut Newton Foundation presents ‘Body Performance’

10 November 2019

Helmut Newton Foundation presents “Body Performance”

On November 29, “Body Performance” opens at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin. The ambitious exhibition features works from a wide range of international artists including Vanessa Beecroft, Yang Fudong, Inez & Vinoodh, Jurgen Klauke, Robert Longo, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Barbara Probst, Viviane Sassen, Bernd Uhlig, Erwin Wurm, and previous RAIN contributor, Cindy Sherman.

Shown for the first time in Germany, the exhibition traces the complex and intimate conversations between the medium of photography and the temporality of performance. The common denominator takes the human body as subject and its exploratory boundaries as its departure. Various art movements are cited such as the Dadaists, Surrealists, the short lived Viennese Actionists, and contemporary art.

The resulting exhibitions features works by thirteen internationally acclaimed artists that find their home at the Helmut Newton Foundation – a supporter of the display of fine art photography in all its many forms.

RAIN was granted a sneak peak of the exhibition through a curated selection of the works which you can view below.

Images courtesy of The Helmut Newton Foundation.

  • Helmut Newton Foundation presents "Body Performance"

    Helmut Newton
    Ballet de Monte Carlo, 1992
    © Helmut Newton Estate

  • Helmut Newton Foundation presents "Body Performance"

    Bernd Uhlig
    Sasha Waltz Dialoge 1/99, Sophiensäle
    Berlin 1999, © Bernd Uhlig

  • Helmut Newton Foundation presents "Body Performance"

    Yang Fudong
    New Women III, 2013
    © the artist, courtesy Marian Goodman
    Gallery, ShanghART Gallery, Sammlung
    Wemhöner

  • Helmut Newton Foundation presents "Body Performance"

    Vanessa Beecroft
    VB55 – Performance, 2005, VB55.004.NT,
    Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 2005
    © Vanessa Beecroft

  • Helmut Newton Foundation presents "Body Performance"

    Viviane Sassen
    Untitled from Roxane II, 040, 2017
    © Viviane Sassen, courtesy Stevenson
    Gallery, Cape Town

  • Helmut Newton Foundation presents "Body Performance"

    Robert Mapplethorpe
    Lisa Lyon, 1980
    © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Use
    by permission

  • Helmut Newton Foundation presents "Body Performance"

    Inez & Vinoodh
    Cindy Sherman – The Gentlewoman, 2019
    © Inez & Vinoodh, courtesy The Ravestijn
    Gallery

  • Helmut Newton Foundation presents "Body Performance"

    Robert Longo
    Men in the Cities, New York, 1976/1982
    © Robert Longo, courtesy Schirmer /
    Mosel Verlag