Jef Geys
Jef Geys: 1962-2001
13 October – 25 November 2001

The Belgian artist Jef Geys developed a site-specific installation for the exhibition spaces of Kunstverein München. Together with the Munich-based initiative kunstprojekte_riem, he also reactivated a work he had developed in 1986 for the much-discussed exhibition Chambres d’amis in Ghent, Belgium, in which artists exclusively exhibited in private apartments. Geys had designed doors for six flats that were inscribed in three languages with the ideals of the French Revolution of 1789, which are also decisive for our understanding of democracy: equality, liberty, fraternity. The doors were placed in front of walls in such a way that no passage was possible. In Munich, Geys placed these doors in six consecrated rooms associated with different religions, among them the Greek Orthodox Allerheiligenkirche (Ungererstraße 131), the Evangelical Jesuskirche (Waldluststraße 36, Munich-Haar), and the Ecumenical Cemetery Riem/Trudering (Am Mitterfeld 68).