Doris Uhlich brings movement to Museum der Moderne on Mönchsberg. Inside and outside its bare concrete shafts, a performance devised especially for the venue will move up and down the stairs. Two of the most famous artworks of the 20th century show a female figure descending a staircase. Marcel Duchamp’s Nu descendant un escalier no. 2 was rejected and ridiculed because of its avantgarde formal vocabulary. Gerhard Richter’s painting Ema, Akt auf einer Treppe was not only criticised for its view of the female body, it became the target of a knife attack in the 1980s.

In Doris Uhlich’s performance downstairs the (female) body is no longer the subject, instead it quivers on the stairs so self-evidently that it reminds us how reactionary forces are now attempting to turn back the clock again. On the stairs, get set, go!