AKINCI is proud to present the solo exhibition 'House of Fools' by Anne Wenzel. A large part of the eponymous series of sculptures made by Wenzel for her solo exhibition 'Carte Blanche (Fuck the Dictator)' at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam will be on show in Amsterdam from 20 January to 2 March, 2024. In addition to the 'House of Fools' series featuring busts of controversial figures from history, ceramic reliefs showing archetypes of protests from the series 'Reality Check' will be on view.
In response to the contemporary iconoclasm that has taken place in recent years where statues were thrown from their pedestals, damaged or defaced, Anne Wenzel created a new series of work. The artist faced an ambiguous debate: the destruction of work by colleagues and the necessity of political protest. However, Wenzel felt that some nuance was missing. Without searching for an answer to the question of who is/was ‘good’ or ‘bad’, Wenzel created the space-filling installation 'House of Fools'.