This exhibition, the first museum survey of the work of German artist Kai Althoff, features a selection of the artist’s extraordinarily delicate and evocative watercolors, finely wrought pencil drawings, highly inventive collages and paintings, and multimedia installations. Tapping a multitude of sources, from Germanic folk traditions to recent popular culture, from medieval and gothic religious imagery to early modern expressionism, Althoff’s characters inhabit imaginary worlds that serve as allegories for human experience and emotion. Kai Althoff was born in 1966 in Cologne, Germany, where he currently lives and works. This exhibition is organized by The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. The MCA’s presentation will be coordinated by Manilow Senior Curator Francesco Bonami, and Pamela Alper Associate Curator Dominic Molon.