Isa Genzken — Geldbilder — Folded Exhibition Invitation, Hauser & Wirth, London, 2015

Folded exhibition invitation / private view card
Hauser & Wirth, 23 Savile Row, London W1S 2ET
20 × 26 cm closed / 40 × 26 cm unfolded
Offset print on semi-gloss card stock
Private view: Wednesday 25 March 2015, 6–8pm
Exhibition: 26 March – 16 May 2015

Issued for Isa Genzken’s Geldbilder (“Money Pictures”) exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, London. The exhibition centred on Genzken’s assemblage-like paintings incorporating banknotes, coins, tape, adhesive, photographs, and improvised material gestures — extending concerns that had run through her practice since the 1970s: circulation, value systems, urban debris, glamour, violence, and the collision between economic and emotional economies.

The invitation functions almost as a compressed version of the exhibition logic. Folded into a large-format support, the object reproduces several Geldbilder works whose surfaces combine currency with hazard tape, dripping paint, celebrity imagery, and makeshift construction aesthetics. Even in printed form, the works retain Genzken’s tension between luxury, instability, collapse, and improvisation. The inclusion of both euros and pounds reflects the broader transnational financial atmosphere surrounding post-2008 contemporary art production and London’s position within that market moment.

These oversized Hauser & Wirth invitations were produced primarily for mailing lists, collectors, and private-view circulation rather than broad public distribution. Survival rates are lower than standard postcard invites due to the large folded format. Genzken ephemera has steadily gained attention alongside renewed institutional interest in her work, particularly material tied directly to specific bodies of work.

Condition: Very good overall. Light handling wear and minor surface marks consistent with age and storage.

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