Territories at the MMK in Frankfurt

Isaac Julien's Territories (1984) are part of the exhibition Channeling which presents new acquisitions alongside other works from the Frankfurt's MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST’s collection.

This space relates to the distance of time between the works’ making and their positioning in the exhibition. MMK collection was formed in 1981, and the museum opened in 1991. The exhibition asks how have sensibilities and discourses changed since the museum’s foundation, and Channeling suggests a movement toward a particular destination or object, or the flow along a specified route or through a given medium.

It proposes to expand an understanding of earlier acquisitions and donations while maintaining attention to the context constituted by the MMK collection—a context into which new works enter and with which they necessarily engage.

The exhibition is curated by Julia Eichler and Lukas Flygare, and it runs from 23 September 2023 to 11 February 2024.