Louise Bourgeois. Structures of existence: The cells

As Bourgeois stated: "The ´Cells´ represent different types of pain: the physical, the emotional and psychological, and the mental and intellectual. When does the emotional become physical? When does the physical become emotional? It´s a circle going round and round. …Each ´Cell´ deals with the pleasure of the voyeur, the thrill of looking and being looked at. The ´Cells´ either attract or repulse each other. There is this urge to integrate, merge, or disintegrate." (Louise Bourgeois, 1991) In this exhibition, the first to concentrate on the "Cells" series, Haus der Kunst assembles the largest number of "Cells" presented to date. It also includes important works from previous decades that led to the development of this body of work. This comprehensive survey brings to light key facets of Bourgeois´s thinking about space and memory, the body and architecture, and the conscious and the unconscious.

Edited by Julienne Lorz
With a foreword by Okwui Enwezor; with essays by Bart De Baere, Lynne Cooke, Kate Fowle, Jerry Gorovoy, Julienne Lorz, Griselda Pollock, Dionea Rocha Watt, Nancy Spector, and Ulrich Wilmes.