Baroque Bubbles – Jiří Georg Dokoupil
23.10.2026 – 28.02.2027 at Schaezlerpalais
Jiří Georg Dokoupil’s “Baroque Bubbles” will make a visit to the Schaezlerpalais a very special experience for several months, featuring a site-specific installation created exclusively for Augsburg.
He most recently exhibited a similar large-scale work during the 2024 Venice Biennale at the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana on St. Mark’s Square in Venice. There, he arranged glass spheres on conical metal racks, whose vibrant colors and abundance of light created entirely new spatial perspectives. The work, produced specifically for the Augsburg exhibition, engages with the ballroom. This casts the space in a new light and offers viewers entirely new perspectives.
Additional “Bubbles” by Dokoupil are also on view on the second floor of the Schaezlerpalais. Since the 1970s, the artist—who is considered one of the “New Wild Ones” of the 1980s—has developed and perfected a technique for this: he mixes soap and pigments to blow soap bubbles onto a painted canvas. He controls their explosion in such a way that intricate organic imprints are created.
You are cordially invited to the opening on Thursday, October 22, 2026, at 6:00 p.m., at the Schaezlerpalais.
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Artist biography Jiří Dokoupil (*1954 in Krnov, Czech Republic)
Jiří Dokoupil was born in 1954 in Krnov, in what is now the Czech Republic. After the Soviet Army marched into Prague in 1968, his family fled via Vienna to West Germany and eventually settled in Cologne. Dokoupil studied in Cologne, Frankfurt am Main, and New York from 1976 to 1978. In 1982, he participated in documenta 7 in Kassel. This was followed by teaching positions at the academies in Düsseldorf and Madrid. Among other awards, he received the Lovis Corinth Prize in 2012. He lives in Berlin, Prague, and Las Palmas.