Christoph Schlingensief: Es ist nicht mehr mein Problem, macht eure Scheiße alleine

Over the course of his artistic career, Christoph Schlingensief (1960–2010) relentlessly confronted the absurdities of the present. The exhibition Es ist nicht mehr mein Problem, macht eure Scheiße alleine (It’s not my problem anymore, deal with your own shit) at Gropius Bau sheds light on his visionary, genre-defying body of work, ranging from striking political actions to projects spanning theatre, opera, film and the visual arts.

In the Gropius Bau’s atrium, the exhibition opens with the large-scale installation Kaprow City, a work closely associated with Schlingensief’s time in Berlin. From there, it unfolds across eight rooms, bringing together installations and video works contextualised by documentary film and archival material.

The exhibition is not a retrospective in the classic sense of the word; instead, it brings Schlingensief’s central bodies of work into conversation, highlighting the ways in which his artistic strategies permeate one another and constantly challenge audiences to take an active stance. In the most comprehensive presentation of his work in Germany in over a decade, the focus is therefore not on the completed work, but on the processes of questioning, doubting and failing that characterises his practice.