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J眉rgen Klauke is one of the foremost performance, photo and media artists and a trailblazer of performance art in Germany. J眉rgen Klauke is a pioneer of Body Art; his critical exploration of socialized gender norms and behavioural patterns has been groundbreaking. He achieved fame in the 1970s, when he used his own body as central expressive medium for his staged works, studying basic sexual behavioural patterns pre-shaped by culture and society.

Beyond the theme of sexuality and society, human existence and its omnipresent abysses have remained the focal point of his work until today. By using everyday materials for staging his images, J眉rgen Klauke achieves a concentrated view of the absurdity of life. J眉rgen Klauke is not a photographer, but an artist, who uses photography as an instrument for questioning himself and the world.

In his latest work phase he reflects on the fundamental conditions of paranoid existence in different scenes ranging from minimalistically strict to excessive, sometimes even surreal. The exhibition at the MdM M脰NCHSBERG, created in cooperation with the ZKM | Museum f眉r Neue Kunst in Karlsruhe, presents a selection of approx. 60 recent works by the artist, including two series of large-format black and white photographs titled 鈥溍剆thetische Paranoia鈥� (鈥淎esthetic Paranoia鈥�) and 鈥淲ackelkontakt鈥� (鈥淟oose Connection鈥�). These performatively staged photos show the artist as representative of the 鈥渆go tossed into the world鈥� which is found in zones of the inexpressible and inexplicable, inviting the beholder to step into these rooms of foreboding. In his fascinating photographs, the artist organizes and stages pictorial spaces in which he is absorbed, dissolved, or repeated by space. The series 鈥淪chlachtfelder鈥� 鈥淏attlefields鈥�) - a 16-meter-long tableau comprising 144 color photos - has been specially conceived for the exhibition and is presented for the first time. In the immediate and provocative aesthetics of a contemporary memento mori, 鈥淏attlefields鈥� depicts the disputed beauty of the horrors taking place in the hidden realms of the slaughterhouse.

In this way the photographs reflect on a scope of themes ranging from existential finiteness to the atrocities that occur on a daily basis, and at the same time refer beyond the level of reality depicted. Complementing this, Klauke also installs two linguistic spaces and an environment with seven plasma screens, revealing another impressive aspect of the media artist鈥檚 extensive oeuvre.