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03.07. - 16.08.2025 BODO KORSIG "Horizons of Desire"
03.07. - 16.08.2025
Galerija "Māksla XO"
Elizabetes iela 14, Rīga, LV 1010
BODO KORSIG
HORIZONS OF DESIRE
From 3 July to 16 August 2025, Māksla XO Gallery is pleased to present, for the third time as part of Latvia’s art events, a new solo exhibition by German contemporary sculptor Bodo Korsig – “Horizons of Desire”. In his characteristic way, the artist transforms the exhibition space into parallel worlds – vivid artistic metaphors that reveal Bodo Korsig’s creative practice, exploring perception, consciousness, and the depths of human existence.
Bodo Korsig’s – one of the leading contemporary German artists, whose creative practice spansinstallations, sculptural objects made of metal, felt, wood, ceramics and paper, as well as video works, laser projections and neon pieces, scenography, painting and large-scale woodcuts. His works explore deeply emotional and psychological themes, making states such as joy, despair or fear directly tangible. Bodo Korsig investigates conscious and unconscious reactions, memories, and social expectations. His visual language is marked by abstract forms reminiscent of neural networks or cellular structures, often paired with text fragments that reflect on existential topics such as memory, love, and mortality. He combines artistic expression with insights from neuroscience and behavioral research. His art operates at the intersection of aesthetics, science, and society – challenging, touching, and marked by great poetic and intellectual power.
Latest exhibition “Horizons of Desire” continues the themes explored in Bodo Korsig’s 2024 exhibition “Breaking Limits”at Museum Art Plus in Donaueschingen, Germany. It reveals a multilayered interaction between memory, longing, and symbolic resonance. Mobile installations, neon works, and wall objects captivate through contrasts of light and shadow, accompanied by Bodo Korsig’s characteristic “play” with materiality, which draws the viewer in and evokes a sense of disorientation. The installations draw on fragments of memory, with their spatial effect shifting depending on the viewer’s perspective – giving rise to poetic interstices. Familiar or amorphous shapes point to the duality of security and loss, to the ambivalence of memory culture. Personal experiences merge with collective symbols, speaking to the fragility of identity and the creative power to shape new meaning from fragments.Works such as “Restless in Space”, “Shattering of the State”, and “Tears of Silence” reference inner tension and emotional unrest, while also suggesting a quiet resistance to silence.
Bodo Korsig invites visitors to examine their own memories, explore shadows, and rediscover meaning in the suspended state of things.
Bodo Korsig 1962) was born in Zwickau and currently lives and works in Trier, Germany. His works have been exhibited in more than 250 exhibitions worldwide, including at the ZKM Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe and the Arp Museum in Rolandseck, Germany; the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago, USA; the Fukumitsu Art Museum in Japan; and at the Riga International Textile and Fibre Art Triennial QUO VADIS? His latest and most ambitious work is a 4-metre-high animated sculpture titled “Dialogue with Marcus Aurelius – Artificial Intelligence Meets Antiquity”, created by using latest 3D technology. It is currently on view in the city of Trier – formerly part of the Roman Empire, at the Simeonstift Museum, as part of an exhibition dedicated to the emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius. The monumental sculpture, a bust of the emperor, engages in dialogue with visitors, answering questions in any chosen language, thus creating a conversation between the 2nd and the 21st centuries.
Bodo Korsig has received numerous international awards, including the Ramboux Prize from the City of Trier and the Grand Prix of the International Triennial in Prague. His works are located in the collections of more than 50 museums around the world, including: the Deutsche Telekom Art Collection (Leipzig, Germany); the Deutsche Bank Art Collection (Frankfurt, Germany); Villa Zanders Museum of Art (Bergisch Gladbach, Germany); the Kupferstich-Kabinett of the Dresden State Art Collections (Dresden, Germany); the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Vienna, Austria); the Czech Museum of Fine Arts (Prague, Czech Republic); the National Museum of History and Art of Luxembourg (Luxembourg); the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (New York, USA); the Brooklyn Museum (New York, USA); the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., USA); the Yale University Art Gallery, Special Collections (New Haven, Connecticut, USA); the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (Kaohsiung, Taiwan); and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, New Zealand). Since 2022, his work has also been part of the Zuzāns Collection at the ZUZEUM Art Centre in Riga, Latvia.
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