The exhibition in the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection is dedicated for the first time to the artistic relationship between the French surrealist André Masson and the Berlin artist Ernst Wilhelm Nay, whose art became the figurehead of abstract modernism in post-war West Germany. André Masson’s (1896-1987) large-format painting “Massacre”, which is the starting point of the exhibition, […]
read moreBroken smartphone displays, a crackle in the radio transmission, frozen images in a video call. It is only at the moment of disruption that our attention is drawn to the nature of the technical media that surround us every day, but without pushing themselves to the fore. As one of the youngest and most unpredictable […]
read moreIn December 2023, the Deutsche Oper will celebrate the premiere of Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena” – a musical highlight conducted by Enrique Mazzola and directed by David Alden. Gaetano Donizetti opened a new chapter in opera history with the world premiere of “Anna Bolena” on 26 December 1830: While opera had previously paid little attention to […]
read moreThe artist Leon Löwentraut (born 1998) will be awarded the Ernst Barlach Prize 2023 for Fine Arts on Friday, 1 December 2023. The prize has been awarded by the Ernst Barlach Gesellschaft Hamburg since 1995 to draw attention to particularly innovative artistic positions. The jury, chaired by Dr Jürgen Doppelstein, Museum Director and Chairman of […]
read moreHeinz Mack is one of the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. In 1957 he founded the group ZERO with the artist Otto Piene in Düsseldorf. Together with other international artists, they wanted to revolutionise art after the Second World War. With “Mack at the ZKM”, the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst […]
read moreDuring the Shanghai Art Season, Aurora Museum Shanghai has invited the renowned German artist Bettina Pousttchi to present her World Time Clock series. The monumental work World Time Clock consists of 24 photographs, each depicting a public clock showing the time of 1:55 PM in a different city. Bettina Pousttchi began this series in 2008, […]
read moreThe exhibition “Modigliani. Modern Views” at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart is the first exhibition on Amedeo Modigliani in Germany for 15 years. In cooperation with the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, a show has been created that surprisingly reassesses the image of women in Modigliani’s work and shows many of his works for the first time in […]
read moreFrom 14 September 2023, the Gemäldegalerie Düsseldorf presents the exhibition “Death and the Devil. Fascination of Horror”. For the first time, a show illuminates the legacy and continuation of artistic strategies of horror in fashion, music, film as well as contemporary art. The spectrum of the 120 works on display ranges from classical painting and […]
read moreThe exhibition “Dawn of Humanity. Art in Times of Upheaval” shows works of art from the first two decades of the 20th century from the Kunstmuseum Bonn’s collection of classical modernism in dialogue with contemporary artistic positions. What the works from both eras have in common is that they were and are created at a […]
read moreEdvard Munch’s art is known for its haunting depictions of deep human emotions. However, his fascination with nature plays an equally important role in his works, which is now being thematised in an exhibition for the first time. “Munch. Life Landscape”, on show at Potsdam’s Museum Barberini from 18 November 2023, is dedicated to the […]
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