In an exhibition at the German Football Museum in Dortmund, visual art and the "beautiful game" form an impressive symbiosis. Four-time Champions League winner, four-time German champion — that's almost as good as it gets. But former national team player Josephine Henning has left the pitch in favor of art.
As artist in residence at Dortmund's , she is now designing participatory art and creative workshops for the . The museum is bringing art and football together in a kind of friendly match: Titled "In Motion — Art & Football," the immersive show features paintings of 20th century European art, as well as little-known or rarely seen images focusing on football. The includes 41 projectors, 45 loudspeakers, 110 spotlights and huge projection surfaces covering 1,000 square meters.
Dali, Polke, Lagerfeld and soccer Fashion star , who died in 2019, is represented in the show with a caricature of soccer functionary Uli Hoeness, who was convicted of tax evasion. It shows him as a pot-bellied footballer with leather trousers and shackles. Even though surrealist artist is not typically associated with the sport, he too is featured in the exhibition, as he once painted his writer friend Jaume Miravitlles as a muscular footballer.
And in a case of "shooting instead of shooting," a piece by elusive artist , depicts a "football terrorist" with a Kalashnikov dangling from his shoulder executing a bicycle kick. All these paintings are projected in large format, and every country partic.
