Galerie Gisela Capitain is pleased to announce the exhibition Spuren sichern (Securing Evidence) with new works by Marcel Odenbach.
Odenbach grew to international prominence largely for his pioneering video art in the 1970s. His artistic creations center on the themes of coming to terms with German history and German colonialism in Africa. Odenbach, however, constantly expands the scope of his work, observing different, foreign cultures and discussing contemporary historical issues like racism, xenophobia, discrimination, and oppression.
In his second exhibition with Galerie Gisela Capitain, Marcel Odenbach shows five works on paper as well as a video installation. Odenbach understands the four paper collages in the central exhibition space as self-portraits. The main thematic and motivic elements are related to topics and media that played an important role for the artist already in the 1970’s: film, sound, and paper.