Würth Company
Museum Würth, Künzelsau
from November 11, 2024
11 a.m. - 6 p.m. daily
Admission free
Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935–2020), who was born in Bulgaria, and his wife Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009), who was of French descent, were almost certainly one of the 20th century’s most remarkable artist-couples. They realized impressive temporary projects at prominent public places – such as, for example, the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the Reichstag in Berlin or at Lake Iseo in Italy – and in doing so they expanded our understanding of what art can be.
To mark the 90th birthday of Christo and Jeanne-Claude – they were both born on 13 June 1935 – Museum Würth is presenting a cross-section of their 60 years of creative activity.
Christo began alienating objects in Paris in 1958. He packaged cans and bottles, constructed his first installations with barrels and imbued everyday items, from prams to stacks of magazines to a bicycle and a motorcycle, with a new charisma by transforming them into sculptural objects.
The exhibition at Museum Würth provides an account ranging from these early beginnings to the last realized project, L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped. The show draws on the holdings of the Würth Collection, which, thanks also to a very personal relationship between the collector Reinhold Würth and the artist-couple, meantime contains one of the largest collections worldwide of works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, about 130 original works dating from six decades.
Christo and Jeanne Claude, Wrapped Floors and Stairways and Covered Windows Project for Museum Würth, 1994, Würth Collection, Inv. 2594 © Christo & Jeanne Claude / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
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