We are thrilled to invite you to the grand opening of Europe’s first major solo exhibition featuring the Argentine Pop Artist,

Marta Minujín – Intensify Life

Experience an exclusive evening with a very special artist, DJs and bar before Fryd Frydendahl and Elisabet Stamm invite you to Deluxe After Party (if you manage to get a wristband!).

Program

17.00 Bar + wristband pick-up for the Fryd Frydendahl and Elisabet Stamm Deluxe After Party (distributed on a first-come, first-served basis and only 1 per person. Very limited wristbands available).

17.30: Opening Speech: Marie Laurberg & Marta Minujín

18.00 DJ Hasfeldt

20.00: Fryd Frydendahl and Elisabet Stamm Deluxe After Party:

Ephraim

Sasha Pixie Cold x STAMM

BONK

Shami Ezra

Will Zawistowski

Nurse

Sigrid Stigsdatter

Kenneth Cockwhore

Fryd Frydendahl x Megumi Tomomitsu

00.00 Thank you for tonight

The Exhibition

CC’s big fall exhibition is the first European retrospective of the pioneering Argentine Pop artist Marta Minujín (b. 1943). An iconic figure, Minujín is one of the most prominent Latin American Pop and conceptual artists ever. Over the last six decades, her happenings, performances, installations and videos have influenced generations of artists in Latin America, as well as the US and Europe.

Eclectically combining elements of experimental theatre, pop-culture films, television and ads, Minujín creates immersive environments locating the viewer at the centre of social situations confronting us with the seductive power of media images. In sensuous, psychedelic and ephemeral expressions merging humour and political criticism, her art employs Pop art’s signature play with the symbols of consumerism and mass culture.

The centrepiece of the exhibition, La Menesunda (1965), is one of the earliest examples of installation art in history. Minujín’s magnum opus is a labyrinthine installation devised as a fanciful journey through Buenos Aires. Across 11 rooms, the viewer encounters a neon-lit street, a swamp, a beauty salon where you can have a quick make up done, a bedroom with a slumbering couple and the occasional aroma of fried chicken. Named after the local slang word for chaos, the work is inspired by the buzzing Buenos Aires street life.

The exhibition will feature a wide and varied selection of the artist’s work alongside archive materials that CC was given unique access to through their close collaboration with the artist.

 La Menesunda: According to Marta Minjuín is organised in collaboration with Tate Liverpool, Museo De Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires and Marta Minujin Estudio. It will tour to Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark; Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; KANAL – Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium and Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.