Immersive art experience Viva Frida Kahlo in Munich extended due to great demand

Due to the large visit to the visit, the Immersive Kunster experience Viva Frida Kahlo in Munich extended until 08.03.2023.

For Viva Frida Kahlo, over 60,000 tickets have already been sold. The team of the Utopia Munich is very happy about this success and now offers all Frida Kahlo-prospective customers the opportunity for a visit to the exhibition until the beginning of March.

Viva Frida Kahlo - Immersive Experience

“Viva Frida Kahlo” is the first immersive staging of the world -famous works of the legendary Mexican artist and icon Frida Kahlo . A real sensual experience, an explosion full of colors and pure vitality.

The 360-degree experience kidnaps the visitors: Inside Mexico in the "Casa Azul" in Coyoacán, where the young Frida Kahlo, tied to her bed after a serious accident, begins to paint.

"I'm not sick, I'm broken. But as long as I can paint, I'm glad I am alive." (Frida Kahlo)

"Viva Frida Kahlo" is an experience for everyone and everyone: The visitors: Inside, the world is literally drawn into Frida Kahlos. They experience the 1920s to 40s and immerse themselves in the colorful paintings and self-portraits as a testimony of a life full of grace, pain and unbroken will to live.

Visitors move: Inside the exhibition freely in the room, elaborate all -round projections generate exotic color worlds full of emotions and let Frida Kahlos Works experience in a way that has never been seen before.

With State-of-the-Art high-performance projectors, Kahlos images that appear almost tiny in the original are brought to life and projected to up to 34 meters long and 10 meters high walls and onto the bottom of the exhibition hall. For an all -round experience of the senses,
a spokeswoman in the role of the artist leads with original quotes through the experienced emotional world of the painter emancipated . A specially composed soundtrack accompanies the immersive staging acoustically.

This creates an immersive overall experience for visitors: inside that connects today's zeitgeist according to transformation, reinterpretation and light art. An event not only for Frida Kahlo fans, but for everyone who experiences art in this new multimedia form, want to interact with it and be kidnapped from everyday life.

"Viva Frida Kahlo - Immersive Experience" is a truly Mexican color explosion of the great Frida Kahlo and her impressive life.

Pressions of the premiere in Munich

The following will see some impressions of the premiere at Utopia in Munich.

An eventful life in pictures

Frida Kahlo is by far the best -known painter Mexico, if not Latin America. The urgent, small -format images articulate Frida Kahlos physical and mental suffering, their grief and tragedy. Her self -portraits are the most honest and truthful expression of what she feels, she writes in 1939.

"They thought I was a surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality." (Frida Kahlo)

Frida Kahlo was certainly one of the most fascinating artists of the 20th century. Her life story is full of drama, tragedy and overwhelming zest for life.

Frida Kahlo's famous self-portraits reflect her profound emotions. Her morphine addiction and the associated pain contributed significantly to her seeing herself as a scarred person, something she attempted to depict in her paintings. One of her most famous works is the self-portrait "The Two Fridas" (1939) . It shows Frida Kahlo as twin girls with two distinct faces—one beautiful and one tormented.

The artistic source of inspiration for Frida Kahlo is next to herself, the Mexican folklore with its inexhaustible colors and the elements of nature. This creates Frida Kahlo as an icon-the traditional Mexican Tehuana costume becomes your trademark and Frida Kahlo itself the symbol of her time.

Kahlo died of pulmonary tuberculosis in early July 1954 at the age of only 47. It left a great estate of works, the popularity of which continues to this day and significantly influenced many famous artists. Much about Frida Kahllos is still the subject of many interpretations and speculations - which is not surprising due to the influence that she had on the art scene.

A figurehead of the women's movement

Because of her political attitude, her fighting for women, indigenous and underprivileged, her toughness and her overwhelming will to get no adversity of a society characterized by Machismo, Frida Kahlo has been celebrated in the United States as a galosic figure of the Mexican women's movement in the USA.

The Hollywood adaptation of her life in 2002 with Salma Hayek in the leading role also contributes to the postumen worldwide popularity.

Frida Kahlos Werk Today

Frida Kahlos pictures achieve high prices; "Raices" painting (roots) was auctioned in 2006 for $ 5.5 million. There are rumors that the anonymous buyer is said to have been the pop icon Madonna, who already owns two other works Kahlos.

However, the paintings who are still home in Frida Kahlos are not allowed to leave Diego Rivera Mexico according to their heir.

Frida Kahlo's entire work consists of only 143 oil paintings. Only the Dolores Olmendo Patño collection with around 25 pictures and the Gelmann collection with 17 pictures include a existence of their work, which was previously also exhibited outside Mexico.

In the immersive exhibition “Viva Frida Kahlo”, the audience now has the opportunity to experience Frida Kahlos work almost entirely: With 130 pictures, “Viva Frida Kahlo” the most extensive presentation of the works Frida Kahlos in one place.

Information about the exhibition

Viva Frida Kahlo Immersive Experience
15.12.2022 - 10.2.2023
Utopia Munich, Heßstr. 132, 809797 Munich

Mon-Sun 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. (last admission 8:00 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.)
Special opening times on the Christmas holidays
New Year's Eve until 7 p.m. (last admission 6:00 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.)
Tickets at: www.muenchenticket.de
Ticket Prize 22.00 euros (Sat./So./-Age 25.00 euros)

Further information:

• Aleegria Konzert GmbH (tour operator)
• Utopia Munich (event location)

How do you continue at the Utopia Munich

From March 15, 2023, visitors can expect "Klimts Kuss - Game with Fire" in Utopia. Klimts Kuss shows a touching multimedia show about the life and work of the Art Nouveau pioneer Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) and will celebrate German premiere in Berlin at the end of January 2023.