"Kiki Smith. Woven worlds" in Podgorica

A large solo exhibition of the famous American artist kiki smith, under the name "Kiki Smit. Woven Worlds" will be opened today in Podgorica, in the Petrović Castle, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro, at 19 p.m.

This is the first exhibition of Kiki Smith in Montenegro, and the curiosity is that, after the closing of the exhibition in MSUCG on February 21, 2025, the works of the famous author will be returned to her home gallery "Pace" in New York, America, and that they will not be in the near future represented in Europe.

Thus, this exhibition gains additional importance, not only when it comes to the Montenegrin public, art, cultural and social scene, but also regional and even European.

The curator's settings are Milica Bezmarević, Mirjana Dušić i Ljuba Jovićević.

"The exhibition will present works of art created during decades of creative practice by Kiki Smith, in a wide range from those in which the artist dealt with the subject of the human body in various aspects, through works in which she focuses on animals, fables and nature, concluding with the most recent works created in the past few years. The installation, which after being exhibited at the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck in Remagen, Germany, is being presented at MSUCG, and was made in close collaboration with the artist and was designed as a compact unit that will include tapestries, sculptures, graphics and drawings," the MSUCG press release states. .

The exhibition will also include the monumental sculpture "Rapture" from 2001, which belongs to a series of sculptures in which Smith develops a kind of mystical cohesion of human and animal identity, in which female figures emerge from animal bodies.

In the period from 2011 to 2017, Kiki Smith, inspired by the monumental series of tapestries of the Apocalypse from Angers in France, which belong to the UNESCO World Heritage, made a cycle of 12 tapestries, nine of which, including the first made "Sky" found at an exhibition in Montenegro.

"With a series of smaller sculptures, reliefs, prints and drawings, through which different narratives and iconographic assumptions are connected that emanate a deep synthesis of man and animal, the exhibition represents a kind of cross-section of Smith's entire work and an insight into her unique art, which arises from her deep personal of understanding nature and its connection with ourselves and our interwoven, connected identities strongly woven into it, which develop together with it", the announcement states.

Born in 1954 in Nuremberg, Germany, Kiki Smith is an American citizen and an internationally recognized artist with a career spanning over four decades. She is known for her multidisciplinary practice, through which she explores the themes of embodiment and the natural world.