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Reception for Arnold Helbling: “Motherboard”

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents the exhibition “Motherboard” by visual artist Arnold Helbling. The exhibition features paintings and drawings and explores the hidden structures of our daily communication as if viewed through an X-ray machine. The site-specific installation on the ground floor is made up of lines and connection points of circuit boards and resembles a complex subway map of a futuristic city. Speech bubbles remind us of the simple human interactions requiring these complex electronic connections. An additional installation and paintings will be shown on the second floor.

The exhibition started on September 30 and will be on view through October 25.
Please join us for a reception with the artist on October 25, 6-8pm.

About the artist:

Arnold Helbling received his academic training at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Basel. He has lived in New York since 1990 and has exhibited widely in the United States, Europe, and Asia. His work has been shown in New York City at White Columns, Roebling Hall, the Swiss Institute, Artist Space, and Deutsches Haus at NYU. In the United States his work has also been exhibited at University of New England, Portland, Main; Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton; Islip Art Museum,  Oakdale NY; University of Southern Maine, Portland, Main; among others. Internationally Arnold Helbling has also exhibited work at the Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea; the Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland; the Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland; the Kunstmuseum Zug, Switzerland; Kunstverein Riehen, Switzerland; and Centre Pasqu’Art, Biel, Switzerland. Arnold Helbling’s work is in public collections including the collection of the New School University, New York; the Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, NY; the Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft, Bern; Stadt Zurich, Switzerland; Aargauisches Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland; Kunstmuseum Zug, Switzerland; and Centre Pasqu’Art, Biel, Switzerland.

Selected list of his previous exhibition titles:

Moving Fast; Treeline; Drop City; Into the Wild; This Is Karate (with Marco Breuer); Invisible City; What Goes Up; Powers of 10; We Are Not in Kansas Anymore, Toto; Essentielle Signaturen Sich Auflösender Horizonte; Everything Falls Apart Yet Nothing Ever Does; I Know You Came to Take Away My Toys… Escapes and Other Lies from Babylon; More, the Sophisticated Art of Forgetting; Still Life; Stoffwechsel and Mrs. Chauchats Gift to the Young Lover.

Support for the reception is provided by the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York.











When: Fri., Oct. 25, 2019 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Deutsches Haus at NYU
42 Washington Mews
212-998-8660
Price: Free
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Deutsches Haus at NYU presents the exhibition “Motherboard” by visual artist Arnold Helbling. The exhibition features paintings and drawings and explores the hidden structures of our daily communication as if viewed through an X-ray machine. The site-specific installation on the ground floor is made up of lines and connection points of circuit boards and resembles a complex subway map of a futuristic city. Speech bubbles remind us of the simple human interactions requiring these complex electronic connections. An additional installation and paintings will be shown on the second floor.

The exhibition started on September 30 and will be on view through October 25.
Please join us for a reception with the artist on October 25, 6-8pm.

About the artist:

Arnold Helbling received his academic training at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Basel. He has lived in New York since 1990 and has exhibited widely in the United States, Europe, and Asia. His work has been shown in New York City at White Columns, Roebling Hall, the Swiss Institute, Artist Space, and Deutsches Haus at NYU. In the United States his work has also been exhibited at University of New England, Portland, Main; Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton; Islip Art Museum,  Oakdale NY; University of Southern Maine, Portland, Main; among others. Internationally Arnold Helbling has also exhibited work at the Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea; the Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland; the Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland; the Kunstmuseum Zug, Switzerland; Kunstverein Riehen, Switzerland; and Centre Pasqu’Art, Biel, Switzerland. Arnold Helbling’s work is in public collections including the collection of the New School University, New York; the Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, NY; the Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft, Bern; Stadt Zurich, Switzerland; Aargauisches Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland; Kunstmuseum Zug, Switzerland; and Centre Pasqu’Art, Biel, Switzerland.

Selected list of his previous exhibition titles:

Moving Fast; Treeline; Drop City; Into the Wild; This Is Karate (with Marco Breuer); Invisible City; What Goes Up; Powers of 10; We Are Not in Kansas Anymore, Toto; Essentielle Signaturen Sich Auflösender Horizonte; Everything Falls Apart Yet Nothing Ever Does; I Know You Came to Take Away My Toys… Escapes and Other Lies from Babylon; More, the Sophisticated Art of Forgetting; Still Life; Stoffwechsel and Mrs. Chauchats Gift to the Young Lover.

Support for the reception is provided by the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York.

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