AKU-2025-001

Anonymous

Der Gruß (New Acquisition 2025)

2025

Cast bronze, patinated, life-size

187 × 95 × 62 cm

Acquisition

Gift of an anonymous donor, January 2025

Curator’s Note

The controversial new acquisition — a bronze statue depicting a prominent technology executive in a politically charged gesture — is placed here in the context of a century of corporate monumentalization. What does it mean to cast a gesture in bronze? What is preserved, what is inscribed?

Exhibition

Der Gruß — New Acquisition in Context