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After decades of artistic work, artist Margo Guttmann is making her work comprehensively accessible to the public for the first time from 27 March 2026. In a concentrated solo presentation at the Miettinen Collection – following her recent participation in the group exhibition Faces of Mind at HausKunstMitte – a remarkable discovery is hinted at: the powerful work of an artist whose oeuvre, developed over decades, is now becoming visible and invites further discovery.
Fighters dominate Margo Guttmann’s large-format images. They radiate vulnerability, but also strength and determination. Aggressive and self-confident, they defy their wounds. Bare muscles are visible. Bandages and perhaps also metallic applications act as armour. Damaged, yet unwavering, these figures stride forward. Hybrid beings, posthuman, as if from a science fiction or manga comic. Half human, half machine. Yet the composition of the images is familiar, almost …
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Image above: Margot Guttmann; Liberty, 2022; Öl auf Leinwand, 240 x 180 cm © Margo Guttmann; Foto: Ludger Paffrath.
