Truth Has, In Reality, Never Been Ours
Kunstmuseum Bochum•Apr 26, 2025 — Sep 21, 2025
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The exhibition Truth Has, In Reality, Never Been Ours tells of political entanglements and artistic strategies in times of totalitarian systems, whose effects can still be felt today. At its center are works and video pieces by avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren and neo-avant-garde artist Stano Filko. Presented as a walk-in installation, the large upstairs gallery space of the Kunstmuseum brings together the multidisciplinary works of both artists.
Both artists created their own mythologies and cosmologies in their respective practices, which can also be read as forms of resistance systems. Stano Filko (1937 in Velka Hradna; †2015 in Bratislava) developed, as a reaction to the totalitarian state regime in the former Czechoslovakia, an extensive ordering system based on colors and numbers. Maya Deren (1917 in Kyiv; †1961 in New York) produced, alongside photography and poetry, films that remain influential to this day. In the 1940s...More
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Truth Has, In Reality, Never Been Ours
Kunstmuseum Bochum•Apr 26, 2025 — Sep 21, 2025
Press Release
The exhibition Truth Has, In Reality, Never Been Ours tells of political entanglements and artistic strategies in times of totalitarian systems, whose effects can still be felt today. At its center are works and video pieces by avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren and neo-avant-garde artist Stano Filko. Presented as a walk-in installation, the large upstairs gallery space of the Kunstmuseum brings together the multidisciplinary works of both artists.
Both artists created their own mythologies and cosmologies in their respective practices, which can also be read as forms of resistance systems. Stano Filko (1937 in Velka Hradna; †2015 in Bratislava) developed, as a reaction to the totalitarian state regime in the former Czechoslovakia, an extensive ordering system based on colors and numbers. Maya Deren (1917 in Kyiv; †1961 in New York) produced, alongside photography and poetry, films that remain influential to this day. In the 1940s...More
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