Space Journey

What happens when artists turn their gaze toward the vast expanse of the cosmos? In the exhibition Space Journey, they attempt to capture the mysterious universe and its often invisible forces. The Kröller-Müller Museum presents sculptures, videos, and works on paper. These depict the universe or deliberately direct the attention outwards: beyond our planet, into space.

The exhibition is inspired by the work Zinc Cloud (1967, 1990) by the American artist Alan Saret (1944), shown for the first time in Space Journey. The sensation of floating between heaven and earth is palpable here; the sculpture seems to detach itself from the ground and could lift off at any moment. The universe as a source of inspiration is also evident in the work of British artist Adam Colton (1957), who captures the starting signal in his screen prints Big Bang, where bright light forces its way through a grid of darkness. In addition, the Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang (1957) created a performance especially for the museum on a sand plain in De Hoge Veluwe National Park: Myth: Shooting the suns: Project for extraterrestrials no. 21 (1994).

Cover image: Hetty Huisman, Rounding the Square, 1989-1992,  Kröller-Müller Museum | photo: Marjon Gemmeke