No Single View. Ilit Azoulay
Curatorted Tour with Dr. Helena Pereña
The exhibition “No Single View” features new works by Ilit Azoulay that emerged from a two-year exploration of Villa Stuck and its history. During the museum’s renovation, Azoulay developed two exhibitions that build upon one another: With “Stopover” (2024/25), she focused on the temporary quarters at Goethestraße 54, which were used as forced housing for Jewish families during the Nazi era; “No Single View” now extends this research into the Villa itself. At the center is the two-channel installation “Mary.” Using the voices of 77 actresses, it unfolds a multi-layered portrait of Franz von Stuck’s daughter—yet the historical Mary is merely the starting point. Taking her as her guide, Azoulay embarks on an artistic investigation that shifts the focus from the family biography to the peripheries of the house, where history has settled. The result is a photographic archive that functions not as a closed memory but as an open framework of possible narratives—plural, subjective, and constantly reconstructible. …