Post-Millennium Tension

The exhibition forms a complex narrative that mirrors contradictory developments whose loose ends converge in the 21st century. Beginning with a reference to Francisco de Goya’s Desastres de la Guerra (1810–14), Milak’s paintings depict scenes ranging from the destruction of Cologne during the Second World War, to Stanley Kubrick’s portrayal of artificial intelligence in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, to the Munich massacre of 1972, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and Berlin’s present-day Berghain.