From 15. February to 18. May 2025, the Museum Barberini is presenting the exhibition “Kosmos Kandinsky. Geometric Abstraction in the 20th Century”. The exhibition is the first to highlight the links between geometric-abstract art movements such as Constructivism, De Stijl and Optical Art and focuses on Wassily Kandinsky as a central figure of abstraction.
At the beginning of the 20th century, painting underwent a profound transformation. Artists no longer wanted to depict the visible; they aspired to a new visual language that reduced artistic expression to an interplay of colors, lines, and shapes.
Geometric Abstraction viewed these elements as a visual language that reflected the modern world and transcended national boundaries. “Kandinsky’s Universe: Geometric Abstraction in the 20th Century” spans six decades and showcases how Geometric Abstraction found radical expression in all its variations in Europe and …
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Image above: Wassily Kandinsky: Oben und links, 1925, © Privatsammlung.