After the fact

An exhibition in Munich looks at the concept of propaganda in order to broaden its definition in light of the societal, political and technological developments of the 21st century.

Coco Fusco, A Room of One’s Own: Women and Power in the New America, 2008, performance at 2008 Whitney Biennial

“After the Fact”, an exhibition and events project at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau in Munich, looks at the concept of propaganda in order to broaden its definition in light of the societal, political and technological developments of the 21st century. The goal is not to define propaganda as an obvious source of evil, as blunt, recognizable and passé, but as an analytical framework that is as potentially problematic as it might be helpful.

Top: Coco Fusco, A Room of One’s Own: Women and Power in the New America, 2008, performance at 2008 Whitney Biennial. Photo Eduardo Aparicio. © 2017 VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Courtesy the artist and Alexandrer Gray Associates, New York
Above: Img.1 “After the Fact”, exhibition view, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, 2017

Img.2 “After the Fact”, exhibition view, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, 2017

Img.3 “After the Fact”, exhibition view, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, 2017

Img.4 “After the Fact”, exhibition view, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, 2017

Img.5 “After the Fact”, exhibition view, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, 2017

Img.6 “After the Fact”, exhibition view, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, 2017

The artworks gathered in the exhibition engage in various ways with current forms of propaganda and with the porous borders between reality and fiction that are symptomatic of the digital age. Through the exhibition, propaganda is posited as both problem and opportunity for artistic and political discourse and art as both vehicle and obstacle for the discourses of different types of propaganda.

Aura Rosenberg, The Missing Souvenir, 2002, poured plastic, acrylic paint. Courtesy the artist and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin — Aura Rosenberg, *The Missing Souvenir*, 2002, poured plastic, acrylic paint. Courtesy the artist and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

until 17 September 2017
After The Fact: Propaganda in the XXI Century
curated by Stephanie Weber with Sebastian Schneider
exhibition design by Marina Correia
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau
Luisenstraße 33, München

After the fact

An exhibition in Munich looks at the concept of propaganda in order to broaden its definition in light of the societal, political and technological developments of the 21st century.

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