Aller Retour #102

Günther Förg

Günther Förg developed his pared-back conceptual practice as a reaction against the expressive figuration that dominated his native Germany in the 1980s. His works often united elements of sculpture, painting, printmaking, photography, and drawing, making meaning through juxtapositions of disparate media and minimalist, gridlike compositions. Fragmentation and Germany’s political climate were major themes throughout his oeuvre. Förg is also well known for his photographs of architecture. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and exhibited in London, Paris, Berlin, Hong Kong, New York, Milan, and Rome, among other cities. Förg’s work belongs in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Stedelijk Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, and the Museum Ludwig, among others.