Exhibition Opening

GLITCH – The Art of Interference

Pinakothek der Moderne 01.12.2023 until 17.03.2024

Broken smartphone displays, crackling radio broadcasts, frozen images during a video call. Only when there is an interference is our attention directed to the nature of the technical media that surround us every day without, however, it becoming the centre of attention. As one of the youngest and most unpredictable forms of art, “glitch art” specifically draws attention to the productive side of the flawed. Initially prevalent in the technical jargon of radio and television engineers in the 1950s, the term “glitch” (Early Modern High German: glitschen, meaning to glide or slither, or from the Yiddish gletshn, to slip or skid, to slide away) soon came to describe programming or graphic errors in the world of computer games. A glitch is thus the unexpected result of a malfunction that occurs not only in computer games but also in other digital software.

The special exhibition “Glitch” in the Pinakothek der Moderne, extending over an area of 1,200 square metres, explores and examines the “art of interference“ as a global phenomenon and, for the first time, looks at the historical origins of the “glitch art“ movement. A total of 50 international artists show how important it is to question norms and entrenched thought patterns, to confront us with innovative alternative ideas and, ultimately, render the invisible visible.

Curated by Franziska Kunze, Katrin Bauer

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Supported by PIN. Freunde der Pinakothek der Moderne with its partner Allianz and the K.S. Fischer Stiftung a. o.