In Lindau, the first comprehensive museum exhibition on Christo and Jeanne-Claude in southern Germany

From April 13 to October 13, 2024, the exhibition Christo and Jeanne Claude - A Lifelong Journey will be open to the public at the Kunstmuseum Lindau in Germany. Curated by Roland Doschka and Sophie Sümmermann, it is the first comprehensive museum exhibition on Christo (Gabrovo, 1935 - New York, 2020) and Jeanne-Claude (Casablanca, 1935 - New York, 2009) in southern Germany.Produced in collaboration with the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation, the exhibition features drawings, collages, objects, photographs, and documents the large-scale temporary art projects conceived and created by the extraordinary and unforgettable couple, who were linked in both life and profession. Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped the Reichstag in Germany, installed an enormous 18,600-square-foot orange tent in Colorado between two mountain ranges running parallel, and made it possible for hundreds of thousands of people to walk on the waters of Lake Iseo in Italy. A pair of visionary artists whose monumental designs have attracted millions of people from around the world.

In addition to Christo’s original works, visitors will experience the unique perspective of photographer Wolfgang Volz, who has documented the projects in collaboration with the pair since 1972. His photographs have contributed to the development and realization of their artistic projects and to making them accessible to a wide audience. The drawings, collages, and photographs of the projects are also considered works of art, documenting the transience of the projects, while at the same time making them unforgettable.

The exhibition’s subtitle intends to shed light on the work of the artist couple, who were born on the same day, June 13, 1935, he in Bulgaria, she in Morocco. The exhibition thus focuses on the story of two extraordinary people who met in Paris in 1958 and grew together both as a couple and as an artistic duo. Together they created their extraordinary large-scale temporary projects, such as The Gates installation in New York’s Central Park (1979-2005), The Floating Piers on Lake Iseo in Italy (2014-2016) or The Wrapped Reichstag in Berlin (1971-1995). After Jeanne-Claude’s death in 2009, Christo continued to work on their projects. until eleven years later, in 2020, he too left us.

Pictured, Christo and Jeanne-Claude in their studio with the Surrounded Islands project, 1981. Photo by Bob Kiss. Courtesy of Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation.

In Lindau, the first comprehensive museum exhibition on Christo and Jeanne-Claude in southern Germany

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