Past Exhibitions
Our past
Prior to the mSE Kunsthalle, there was ZOTT Artspace, an international platform for contemporary art.
ZOTT Artspace was founded in 2014 by Christian Zott in Singapore. After the first exhibitions with international artists, a second exhibition space was founded in Sankt Kassian, 1,500 meters above sea level in the Italian Dolomites, called ZOTT Artspace Dolomites for estabilshed artists and newcomers. In 2017, ZOTT Artspace opened spacious project rooms in Munich's museum quater (ZOTT Artspace Munich), where meetings with artists took place, exhibitions were presented,and where events for the Kairos project were held.
Since fall 2019, the mSE Kunsthalle in Unterammergau has become the central location for all art projects by Christian Zott.
SIGHTING III
(2022–2023)
The spactial and sound sculpture by Hildegard Rasthofer and Christian Neumaier in the sculpture garden of the mSE Kunsthalle brought together horizontal and vertical lines, suface and volume of Ammer Valley, alpine idyll and construction steel.
After a permanent permission for the artwork in Unterammergau was refused for the second time, the sculpture has been sold.
Valley of the Passion
(from May 2022 to October 2022)
With artworks by Lois Anvidalfarei, Ernst Barlach, Anna Bogouchevskaia, Felix Flesche, Veronika Kieslinger, Torsten Mühlbach, Hans Panschar, Harry Rosenthal, Max Schmelcher, Sibylle Semlitsch, Norbert Tadeusz and Bruno Wank, a sculpture trail about the great themes of the Passion was installed between the church of Unterammergau and the mSE Kunsthalle.
SIGHTING IV
(from June 2021 to May 2022)
The KZ memorial in Flossenbürg had installed the artwork by Hildegard Rasthofer and Christian Neumaier on its forth location as a space of thought for the visitors on a hill above the quarry of the former labour camp.
The sculpture received much attention in the Upper Palatine and was appreciated by residents and guests at this important historic site.
Der menschliche Körper
(2020)
In spring of 2020, the mSE Kunsthalle started a regional art contest. More than 100 participants sent in images of their works, some of which could be admired on our website.
The winning artworks by Monika Supé, Klaus Soppe and Stefan Hauser were presented in a special exhibition in the Kunsthalle in Fall and Winter 2020.
SIGHTING III
(from October 2019 to August 2020)
The spactial and sound sculpture by Hildegard Rasthofer and Christian Neumaier in the sculpture garden of the mSE Kunsthalle brought together horizontal and vertical lines, suface and volume of Ammer Valley, alpine idyll and construction steel.
The artwork caused the fist heated art controversy of the mSE Kunsthalle.
KAIROS in Vienna
(from September 4th, 2019 to September 21st, 2019)
At the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien, KAIROS. The Right Moment was presented to the public of the Austrian capital – with photographs by Mauro Fiorese and paintings by Wolfgang Beltracchi.
In addition to the paintings he created for the Kairos exhibition in the artistic voices of the great masters of the past, Beltracchi presented ten new paintings in which he interprets and recontextualises motifs of the exhibition in the grand scheme of art history.
SIGHTING II
(23.07.2019–04.10.2019)
In coöperation with Master Ateliers, ZOTT Artspace presented the spatial and sound sculpture SIGHTING II by Hildegard Rasthofer and Christian Neumaier as a temporary installation in Munich's Kreativquartier.
The sculpture is made of more than 70 tons of steel and has a square base of 2.4 m length.
After the installation, the sculpture was errected under the title "SIGHTING III" in the sculpture garden of the
mSE Kunsthalle in Unterammergau.
(c) Anne Wild (Ausschnitt)
FORM COLOR MATTER PAINT
(08.07.2019–02.08.2019)
Titled FORM COLOR MATTER PAINT. Paintings from California ZOTT Artspace Munich presented artworks by Ricky Gumbrecht for the first time in Europe. In her collages and paintings between figuration and abstraction, she condenses forms and colours, layers and assonances to a sensual and subtle game.
Interview with the artist (German)
Ricky Gumbrecht, BRAKING WAVES, 2018; Oil on wood panel, 16 x 16 inches, 40,5 x 40,5 cm; (c) Ricky Gumbrecht
Beauty
(12.01.2019–08.02.2019)
The artist and philosopher Max Drömmer presented his paintings and graphics from sixty years of creation under the titleBeauty im ZOTT Artspace Munich. – Kuratiert von Dr. Eva Karcher.
On the occasion of the exhibition, a seminar of the LMU examined the exhibition title from a philosophical point of view -- with Julian Nid-Rümelin, Martine Nida-Rümelin, Jakob Steinbrenner and others.
Max Drömmer, BLAUES DING, 1994 (Ausschnitt); Acryl auf Holz, 77 x 65 cm; (c) Heybenaber/Drömmer/Nida-Rümelin
KAIROS in Hamburg
(20.11.2018–13.01.2019)
KAIROS. The Right Moment at the Barlach Halle K was accompanied by a project of the Wilhelm-Gymnasium Hamburg: Students trained to guide other -- mostly young -- people in small groups through the exhibition.
Beltracchi with students of the Wilhelm-Gymnasium; (c) H-J Ellerbrock
Was Malerei bedeuten kann #2
(20.10.2018–15.11.2018)
Matthias Franz, Paul Mittler, Tim Sandow, Tallal Shammout, Katarina Spielmann and Antony Valerian from the class of Daniel Richter presented six unique creative positions at ZOTT Artspace Munich.
A coöperation with Evelyn Drewes Galerie, Hamburg, curated by Günther Oberhollenzer
(c) Ivo von Renner (Ausschnitt)
Kairos in Venice
(05.10.2018–03.11.2018)
The opening of the exhibition KAIROS. The Right Moment took place in Venice in 2018. The historic rooms of the Biblioteca Marciana at Saint Marc's Square were a spectacular setting for the journey through 2,000 years of European art with works by Wolfgang Beltracchi and Mauro Fiorese. The automnal high tide was successfully managed.
Dieser Körper, der nicht aufhört
(23.06.2018–07.07.2018)
ZOTT Artspace presented sculptures and drawings by Lois Anvidalfarei at Barlach Halle K in Hamburg. The exhibition united the most iportant works of the past five years, nudes, in which the artist recreated the human body in deliberate and unique compositions -- between finitude and infinity, limitation and limitlesness. Anvidalfareis body of work, in his tireless contemplation of the human body, bears an existential potential of salvation.
Lois Anvidalfarei, GROSSER WEIBLICHER KOPF, 2016/17; Bronze, 69 x 123 x 144 cm, Ed. 5/5
Phantsma
(21.01.2017–07.04.2017)
In coöperation with the Museion Bozen, ZOTT Artspace Dolomites presented two artists as a Museion Project Room: the painter Cornelia Lochmann und Videokunst aus dem Projekt »Conversation pieces« der Künstlerin Vera Comploj – under the title Phantasma.
Curated by Letizia Ragaglia
Cornelia Lochmann, APRES MOI, LE DELUGE, 2014 (Ausschnitt); Acrylics and varnish on canvas, 200 x 300 cm
Beth Moon & Lois Anvidalfarei
(21.01.2017–07.04.2017)
The exhibition at ZOTT Artspace Dolomites presented two exceptional artists examining nature and culture: Lois Anvidalfarei as a recreator of the human body in bronze, and Beth Moon as an outstanding artistic photographer of nature with her series Diamond NIghts.
Beth Moon, AQUILA (Diamond-Nights-Serie); (c) Beth Moon (Ausschnitt)
Pollux Capella
(2015)
Under its astronomic title, the exhibition at ZOTT Artspace Dolomites united various diverse art genres and artistic positions: Greta Alfaro, Sara Casal, Manfred Dörner, Hans-Joachim Ellerbrock, Alberto Fanelli, Matteo Lo Greco, Anne Herzbluth, Iyvonne Khoo, Tobias Köbsch, Hubert Kostner, Beth Moon, Mee Ai Om, Max Schmelcher and Konstantin Sotnikov.
Mee Ai Om, M-RED, 2012, oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm; (c) Mee Ai Om
MIA&D Singapore
(October 2014)
In October 2014, Singapore’s cultural scene turned its attention to the photographic arts. As an addition to the international photography festival in Italy, the renowned “MIA Photo Fair” from Milan travelled to the Asian Metropolis. MIA&D Singapore exhibited photographs, video art and design from newcomers up to world-class photographers such as Annie Leibovitz and Steve McCurry. The ZOTT Artspace exhibition was announced in advance by the event organizer as especially worth seeing. The exhibition showed three photographic artists for the first time in the Asia-Pacific region: the American Beth Moon, the Italian Mauro Fiorese , and the German Hans-Joachim Ellerbrock. Their works were mentioned among others in Harper's Bazar.
Hans-Joachim Ellerbrock, DEIN EROS, MEIN MOHN, 2006, 75 x 120 cm (Detail)
Konstantin Sotnikov
(2014)
ZOTT Artspace showed the artist's paintings and sculptures in Singapore. On the large-format paintings, symbols and phantastical creatures from Eastern and Western culture inhabit ambiguous dream worlds.
Konstantin Sotnikov, DE PROFUNDIS, 2013, Öl auf Leinwand, 160 x 210 cm (Ausschnitt)
Mindmap of Love
(2014)
Presented in the Casa di Giulietta, one of the world's most romantic hotspots, Mauro Fiorese and Christian Zott created an exhibition of photographs that illustrate the many different forms of love, in snapshots, and staged studio photographs. The exhibition was part of the eponymous book.
Mauro Fiorese, INSTINCTIVE ATTRACTION, VERONA, 2006, 89,5 x 89,5 cm
Header image: Ricky Gumbrecht, Island in the sun, 2009 (Detail)