Dancing with Myself
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Curated by
Martin Béthenod
"Dancing with Myself" was meant to be a joyful, poetic, political, wild dance through contemporary art from the 1960s to the present. The guest artists, including Adel Abdessemed, David Hammons, Kimsooja, Boris Mikhaïlov, Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman and Paulo Nazareth, played a key role both as actors and as material for their creations, using their bodies, their biographies, their social and/or sexual identities and their emotions. The exhibition went beyond the conventional self-portrait, showing other ways of depicting the Self. It brought together unique temperaments and attitudes across the most varied artistic disciplines.
"Dancing with Myself" was the biggest Pinault Collection show ever held in Germany. It subsequently travelled to the Punta della Dogana in Venice from 8 April to 16 December 2018, but with the addition of around 60 more works compared to the original show in Essen.
Artworks in the Dancing with Myself exhibition
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Phat Free
1995-2000
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Cold Breath
2000
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Untitled
1991
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Untitled
1976/2000
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Untitled (Blood)
1992
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No
1992
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A Drinking Sculpture
1974
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Doll Clothes
1975
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Talk is Cheap
2006
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Séparation
2006
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Untitled
1983
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Cherry Blossom no. 9
1974
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We
2010
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a.k.a.
2008-2009
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Bad Thoughts 7
1975
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Grandma Ruby and me
2005
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Mom
2007
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Untitled, Noticias de America
2011-2012
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Untitled, Para Venda
2011
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Dead Boards No. 11
1976
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2012
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2016
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Untitled
2016
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Lip Sync
1969
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A Needle Woman
1999-2000
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Pierce
2004-2008
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1965-Infinity
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2010-2011
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2010-2012
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Oxygen
2015
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Autoportrait
1929
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Autoritratto (Mi Fuma Il Cervello)
1993-1994
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Sculpture-lampe IX
1970
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