With "Mater", the Museum Villa Stuck presents the second intervention by the artist Gonzalo Borondo in Munich. During the renovation of the museum in 2025, a scaffolding net painted in white and gold enveloped the façade like a transparent skin – the project was titled "Chrysalis". Now the building has been freshly renovated, the restored façade shines in new splendour, and the transformation continues in the monumental rooms of the Neues Atelier of the Villa Stuck.
For Borondo, the exhibition itself is the artwork. The works are prepared over months and years, but are largely created on site and develop out of an intensive engagement with the respective exhibition location. As in "Chrysalis", Borondo also engages in "Mater" with the Gesamtkunstwerk of Franz von Stuck. While the façade installation reinterpreted motifs from his paintings, the new exhibition is oriented toward the spatial dramaturgy of the artist's villa.