Gallery Talk: Uniformity—August Sander, Timm Rautert, and Tsui Kuang‑Yu

This event requires registration; see further details below.

Join curator Lynette Roth for a closer look at three different works—two series of portrait photographs from the Busch-Reisinger Museum collection and a video installation on loan— that rely on a systematized artistic format to examine and critique uniformity. Uniforms, which are at play in these works, can be used to delineate between those who “belong” and those who do not. Roth will discuss August Sander’s ambitious compendium of photographs “People of the Twentieth Century”—conceived as an atlas of interwar German society—as it relates to work by contemporary artists Timm Rautert and Tsui Kuang‑Yu.

This gallery talk is part of our New on View series, highlighting recent gallery installations and presenting new insights into recent acquisitions or old favorites.

Led by:
Lynette Roth, Daimler Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art

Gallery talks are limited to 18 people and registration is required. You can register by clicking on the event on this form, beginning at 10am the day of the talk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk.

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