Yael Efrati, Asta Gröting, Monika Sosnowska
City Limits

Installation view Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 2022
Photo: Katja Illner

The exhibition City Limits features the works of three artists: Yael Efrati (*1978 in Israel), Asta Gröting (*1961 in Germany), and Monika Sosnowska (*1972 in Poland), who belong to the same generation but grew up in very different sociopolitical contexts. While Gröting came of age in prosperous post-war Germany, Sosnowska grew up in communist Poland and Efrati in a family of Eastern European immigrants in Israel.

Despite their cultural differences, these artists are interested in similar artistic strategies to explore architectural elements and discover how they reflect different political, social, and historical realities.

Their sculptures have a clear historical background, from the rubble of World War II to the architecture of the communist era in Sosnowska’s work to the uprooting of people displaced by the same war and its aftermath in Israel in Efrati’s work.

The exhibition will run from November 2021 to February 2022 at the Center for Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, Poland, which is the main producer of the exhibition along with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. After its stop at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, in 2023 the exhibition will travel to the Bat Yam Museum of Art in Israel.

The exhibition is curated by Sergio Edelsztein with co-curator Joanna Kiliszek, and by Gregor Jansen and Alicia Holthausen at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.

A publication will accompany the exhibition.

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Works of the artists Yael Efrtai, Asta Gröting and Monika Sosnowska in the exhibition City Limits

Installation view City Limits Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 2022
Photo: Katja Illner

Monika Sosnowska
Pillar, 2018
Concrete, steel, lacquer
Courtesy the artist & Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Photo: Katja Illner

Monika Sosnowska
Pillar, 2018
Concrete, steel, lacquer
Courtesy the artist & Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Photo: Katja Illner

Asta Gröting
Płot, Warszawa, 2021
Wood, bronce
Courtesy the artist & carlier I gebauer, Berlin / Madrid

Asta Gröting
Płot, Warszawa, 2021
Wood, bronce
Courtesy the artist & carlier I gebauer, Berlin / Madrid

Yael Efrati
Untitled, 2021
Red stones, concrete, wood, clay
Courtesy the artist
Photo: Katja Illner

Yael Efrati
Untitled, 2021
Red stones, concrete, wood, clay
Courtesy the artist
Photo: Katja Illner

Yael Efrati
Untitled (Terrazzo piece), 2021
Aggregates, cement, key
Courtesy the artist
Photo: Katja Illner

Yael Efrati
Untitled (Terrazzo piece), 2021
Aggregates, cement, key
Courtesy the artist
Photo: Katja Illner

Monika Sosnowska
Gate, 2019
Painted steel
Courtesy the artist & kurimanzutto, Mexico City /  New York
Photo: Katja Illner

Monika Sosnowska
Gate, 2019
Painted steel
Courtesy the artist & kurimanzutto, Mexico City /  New York
Photo: Katja Illner

Asta Gröting
Reclining Figure 1, 2018
Wax
Courtesy the artist & carlier I gebauer, Berlin / Madrid
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022
Photo: Katja Illner

Asta Gröting
Reclining Figure 1, 2018
Wax
Courtesy the artist & carlier I gebauer, Berlin / Madrid
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022
Photo: Katja Illner

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