Residences versus Birthplaces Solo exhibition of Andreas Slominski at Museum Folkwang, Essen

For the European Football Championship, Museum Folkwang is presenting the group of works Residences versus Birthplaces by Andreas Slominski: over 80 football posters that the artist and football fan Slominski collected between 1986 and 1988. A portrait of society that is as passionate as it is active, putting fan culture in the spotlight.

Andreas Slominski's works represent some of the most extraordinary contributions to German contemporary art. During the early 1990s, he mainly created sculptures in smaller dimensions, while in more recent years he has shifted towards larger-scale installations. Since his beginnings, Slominski unfailingly sought a direct dialogue with the viewer, probing ideas about art and its reception. His so-called 'traps' are absurd-looking baits, inspired by the sculptural qualities he observed in a vole trap and positioned somewhere between sculpture and functional object. They can be interpreted as comments on the deceptive, as well as the seductive, effects of art.