EINBLICKE/ Insights: “Mater. Gonzalo Borondo” Curator-Led Tour with Dr. Helena Pereña
With “Mater,” the Museum Villa Stuck presents artist Gonzalo Borondo’s second intervention in Munich. During the museum’s renovation in 2025, a white-and-gold-painted scaffolding net enveloped the facade like a transparent skin—the project was titled “Chrysalis.” Now the building has been freshly renovated, the restored facade shines with new splendor, and the transformation continues in the monumental rooms of the New Studio at Villa Stuck. For Borondo, the exhibition itself is the work of art. The works are prepared over months and years, but are largely created on site and evolve from an intensive engagement with the respective exhibition space. As in “Chrysalis,” Borondo also engages with Franz von Stuck’s Gesamtkunstwerk in “Mater.” While the facade installation reinterpreted motifs from his paintings, the new exhibition is guided by (…) more: https://www.villastuck.de/programm/detail/mater/p>