Laura López Paniagua curates exhibition HR Giger & Hans Bellmer at the Schinkel Pavilion

BCB faculty member Laura López Paniagua is curator of the Berlin Schinkel Pavillion’s current exhibition HR Giger & Hans Bellmer.

The exhibition brings together sculptures, early paintings and drawings of the Swiss artist HR Giger (1940-2014), who is known as the creator of the creature from the film Alien, with graphic works and photographs of the German Surrealist Hans Bellmer (1902-1975).

The Schinkel Pavillion promotes the exhibition as follows: "The Schinkel Pavillon presents a second volume of the exhibition dedicated to HR Giger, this time entering a dialogue with the work of an artist who inspired him throughout his​ lifetime: the subversive German Surrealist Hans Bellmer. Their provocative aesthetics, depicting at times explicit sexual acts and repulsive creatures, was for both a form of political resistance and rebellion. The exhibition space turns into a forbidden cabinet of nightmares and taboos which seduce the curious viewer with their alluring poetics​."

The exhibition is a follow up to 2021’s show HR Giger & Mire Lee. Curator Agnes Gryczkowska selected the HR Giger works for both shows. 

Find out more on the Schinkel Pavillion website >>

Post Date: 02-23-2022