iMuseum Villa StuckBogenhausen
No Single View. Ilit Azoulay
This exhibition has ended.
Israeli artist Ilit Azoulay's two-channel installation traces the people connected to Villa Stuck, continuing research begun during the museum's renovation.
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A woman at a kitchen table says she wishes she had written her own story instead of being a character in it. She is Mary Stuck, the painter's only daughter and favourite model, and in Ilit Azoulay's film Mary she is played by 77 actresses, from girl to old lady.
The show hangs in the family's former private rooms: bedrooms, bathroom, dressing room. Azoulay was invited in during the renovation, photographed the house with a macro camera and built what she found into layered photo collages. You move between them in the rooms where Mary lived until 1961; she moved back into her parents' villa with her own family, the most Munich housing solution on record. In the last room the actresses talk about making the film. None of them exist: every Mary is AI-generated, by a tool that remembers its own scenes for eight seconds.
It closes on 18 October. €9 (€5 reduced, under-18s free) covers the whole house, and Wednesdays run until 20:00.
Look for
Mary, the film
Seventy-seven actresses take turns answering one fictional interview as Mary Stuck, across six episodes, from a girl to an elegant older woman at a kitchen table.
The making-of in the last room
The actresses describe their experience of the shoot, though every one of them was generated by AI.
The collage boxes
Macro photographs of the villa's materials and relics, layered inside three-dimensional containers so several stories sit side by side without forming one.
The painted text frames
Painted wooden constructions carry quotations, one reading "I know where to stand so I'm not seen right away".
The Record prints
Small framed prints that ask you questions in sequence, such as "Is this the version you know?" and "Did you look long enough?"
Good for
- Evening Visits
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Nerding Out
Skip if
You came for Franz von Stuck's paintings: this is contemporary film and photography about his daughter.
With kids
Under-18s get in free.
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Image credits
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- Museum Villa StuckWikiolo, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Liminal SpacesCourtesy of Bavarian National Museum
- StadtLandschaftCourtesy of Bavarian National Museum
- Bavarian National MuseumRufus46, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Bavarian State Archaeological CollectionBurkhard Mücke / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- Alpine MuseumBurkhard Mücke (Pimpinellus), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0