David Ilzhöfer

Honey, it's not what you think!

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  • 💙 Orangerie Munich
  • 🖤 David Ilzhöfer
  • 💜 David Ilzhöfer lives and works in Munich, Germany. He mixes personal myth with found objects into paintings and sculptures.
  • 💛 Studio Tacke

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Temporal Disconnect, 150x180cm, 2024 Stake House, 38x38x66cm, 2024
Temporal Disconnect, 150x180cm, 2024 Stake House, 38x38x66cm, 2024
Stake House, 38x38x66cm, 2024
Stake House, 38x38x66cm, 2024
Vertrauen auf Hörensagen No.1, 120x160cm, 2024 Vertrauen auf Hörensagen No.2, 120x160cm, 2024
Vertrauen auf Hörensagen No.1, 120x160cm, 2024 Vertrauen auf Hörensagen No.2, 120x160cm, 2024
Frostglass Fate, variable size, 2024
Frostglass Fate, variable size, 2024
Frostglass Fate, variable size, 2024
Frostglass Fate, variable size, 2024
Midsummer Depression (Selbstdiagnose), 150x180cm, 2024
Midsummer Depression (Selbstdiagnose), 150x180cm, 2024
First Born, Last Meal, 195x140cm, 2024
First Born, Last Meal, 195x140cm, 2024
Personalized Maze, 60x40x78cm, 2024
Personalized Maze, 60x40x78cm, 2024
Gastrollen meiner Familie No.2, variable Größe, 2024
Gastrollen meiner Familie No.2, variable Größe, 2024
Unsere Gier nach Geschichten, variable Größe, 2024
Unsere Gier nach Geschichten, variable Größe, 2024
Unscripted Interactions, variable Größe, 2024
Unscripted Interactions, variable Größe, 2024
Mother of All Objects, 180x150cm, 2024
Mother of All Objects, 180x150cm, 2024
Ein Ruhepunkt in der bewegten Handlung des Dramas. Sweaty armpits, tight throat, cracking knuckles, the indomitable desire is brewing in the stomach: you are inventing a story right now, with several possible plots run parallel. Bursting out of restless rehearsal in your head, you raise your voice: “Honey, it’s not what you think!” Quoted from common dialogues in movies and TV series, the exhibition title celebrates the phantasmagoric oscillation not only among facts and fictions, but also the animate and inanimate. Preliminary identities are sketched into ephemeral existence by choreographed walk-in case studies, populated with fictional alternatives of family members, the transgenerational inheritance, imitations of transformational moments and objects charged with personal myth and misunderstanding. When you tiptop along changing routes, various lines of sight mix between the sculptures and images, making the works viewable sequentially or collectively. Instead of coherent stories under fixed gaze, flows of constantly recalibrated associations adhere to your moving body. The exhibition orbits around the arbitrary nature of identity and involuntary heritage. Permeable narrative perspectives unfold among a dynamic whole of paintings and sculptures that temporarily gives rise to transient situations.
David Ilzhöfer lives and works in Munich, Germany. He mixes personal myth with found objects into paintings and sculptures.

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