Edvard Munch’s (1863-1944) radical modernism in painting challenged his time. This was especially true of the Berlin art scene at the turn of the century, on which the Norwegian symbolist had a great influence. The exhibition “Edvard Munch. Magic of the North” is a cooperation with MUNCH in Oslo and tells of the relationship between […]
read moreFrom September 14, 2023, the Georg Kolbe Museum will present the exhibition ” Im Paradies fällt der Schnee langsam” (“In Paradise, the Snow Falls Slowly”) by artist Lin May Saeed as a dialogue with Renée Sintenis. Styrofoam creatures climb out of their cages and colonize the Georg Kolbe Museum, wire lobsters free themselves from captivity […]
read moreIn her solo exhibition The First Finger (chapter II), Tolia Astakhishvili (*1974 in Tbilisi, Georgia) transforms the Haus am Waldsee in the course of an expansive installation. In addition to structural interventions, drawings, paintings, text and videos, the exhibition includes new collaborative works with Zurab Astakhishvili, Dylan Peirce and James Richards as well as contributions […]
read moreGropius Bau is currently presenting the exhibition Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora, which brings together the work of various contemporary artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers and scholars. Through new works and existing projects, the group exhibition traces the connections between Africa and Asia, highlighting the intersections and diasporic […]
read moreAt the Berlinische Galerie, Pınar Öğrenci will show the film “Aşît/The Avalanche” (2022, 60 min.), produced for documenta fifteen. The inspiration and starting point for it was Stefan Zweig’s “Chess Novella”, written in 1942 in Brazilian exile, in which the game of chess becomes a survival strategy in the face of fascism. Öğrenci has returned […]
read moreLeiko Ikemura is an internationally renowned artist whose work spans the genres of drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and poetry. At the centre of her work is an exploration of nature, the theme of femininity and the cyclical rhythm of life and death. In her solo exhibition at the Georg Kolbe Museum, the artist, who has […]
read moreOn the occasion of the exhibition “Die Kunst der Gesellschaft” (The Art of Society) in the Neue Nationalgalerie, a monthly series of events from September 2022 to July 2023 will discuss social processes of a turbulent time: the German Empire, colonial history, the First World War, the “Golden” Twenties, National Socialism as well as the […]
read moreYo lo vi” (I saw it) was Francisco de Goya’s comment on the 44th sheet of his “Desastres” from 1863. In view of the current war in Europe, the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection is dedicated to the famous Spanish court painter, who denounced wars and social grievances in his cycles. With the sale of the 80 etchings […]
read moreThe Mönchehaus Museum Goslar presents the exhibition Unverwüstlich (Indestructible) by the artist Kristina Schuldt from July 24th to September 18th. On display are the artist’s works from 2012 to 2022. The Leipzig master student of Neo Rauch paints large-format everyday scenes with powerful, self-confident figures. Kristina Schuldt‘s pictorial personnel is mostly female. The figures lie, fall, […]
read moreIn a solo show, the Museum Barberini presents the new works from the Hasso Plattner Collection. Four virtually unknown paintings by Claude Monet expand the Potsdam art museum’s Impressionist focus with its now 107 Impressionist paintings. With 38 paintings by Monet, it shows the largest complex of works by this artist in Europe outside of […]
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