Laurie Simmons. Dollhouse Photographs
In the organizer's words:
The American artist Laurie Simmons is known for her staged photographs in which she presents dolls in stereotypical female role models in domestic interiors. Exemplary of her work is the series "In and Around the House" from 1978/79 with 56 black and white photographs in which a doll's wife can be seen carrying out various activities in her intimate doll's home. But the idyll is deceptive, as hidden stories are revealed behind the bourgeois façade. The exhibition "Laurie Simmons. Dollhouse Photographs", which was created in cooperation with the Sammlung Goetz, the Deutsches Theatermuseum and the Munich Film Festival, presents a selection of her works that critically reflect the social role models of the American middle class.
Simmons is considered a central representative of the "Pictures Generation", a loose group of American artists who began to critically question the power of mass media and consumer culture in the late 1970s. While colleagues such as Richard Prince or Sherrie Levine often copied images directly from advertising or art history, Simmons created her own artificial worlds in miniature in order to deconstruct social role models. More than 20 years later, she created the Kaleidoscope House series of color photographs focusing on architecture and design. Together with architect Peter Wheelwright, Simmons designed a miniature version of a modern dream house, furnished with design classics and modern art and inhabited by a family of dolls.
On the occasion of the Munich Film Festival, the exhibition also features Simmons' first cinematic work "Music of Regret" (2005/6) with Meryl Streep, a three-part musical in which she brings her objects to life.
A cabinet exhibition of the Deutsches Theatermuseum and the Sammlung Goetz.
Program partner: Filmfest München 2026.
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