Welcome to a new online exhibition! As the world is still on lockdown, we’re all trying to figure out how to navigate within the so-called ‘new normal’. One of them is Vienna-based Christine König gallery, which is presenting the exhibition Me, Myself & I virtually until May 31st. The title gives it away, and as you can imagine, the group show presents a wide range of artworks and artists exploring the issue of the self, with some artworks being created during quarantine – like Juergen Teller’s self-portrait, for example.
“For as long as artists have been working in various fields, they also have been portraying themselves,” reads the exhibition text. “All works shown explore the subjective, emotional, physical, or political identities of their subjects. The artists included in this virtual exhibition use a wide range of techniques and media, often only giving subtle hints, sometimes revealing the mechanisms of self-exposure bluntly.” And so, we go from the age-old self-portraits, like those of Ai Weiwei, Maurizio Cattelan, Haruko Maeda, Jimmie Durham, Susanne Kortan Gimbel, Thomas Hartmann, Roman Urajnke or Per Dybvig, to more subtle ways of self-portraiture, like Natalia Stachon’s Visions and Revisions (My Working Space), which depicts the room she works in – an even more familiar space during quarantine. So, if you’re tired of taking selfies and using every face filter under the sun, check how (other) artists have been doing it since the dawn of times.
The exhibition Me, Myself & I is on view virtually on Christine König gallery’s website until May 31st.

Ai Weiwei. Illumination (Ai Weiwei with rockstar Zuoxiao Zuzhou in elevator when taken in custody by the police, Sichuan, August 2009), 2014

Ovidiu Anton. Selbstportrait mit Kreuzschmerzen, 2020

Skip Arnold. Gargoyle, December 5, 1992, 2000

Felix Burger, Weisser Zwerg, 2016

Maurizio Cattelan, YES!, 2019

Jimmie Durham, Painted Self-Portrait, 2007

Haruko Maeda, Selbstportrait im Sommerkleid in Quarantäne / Isolation Fashion Show, 2020

Humphrey Ocean, Self 1, 2020

Manfred Peckl, The Occupator, 2020

Rade Petrasevic, You don’t know me 72, 2020

Toni Schmale, Liege, 2019

Natalia Stachon, Visions and Revisions (My working space), 2020

Juergen Teller, Self-portrait No.1 (No Euros, No Tokyo Olympics), London, 2020

Roman Uranjek, Untitled (from the book series SELFPORTRAIT), 2009