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The Neue Nationalgalerie will show on 23th May 2025 the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark’s (1920–1988) first retrospective in Germany. With around 120 artworks, the comprehensive show in the upper hall will present her oeuvre from the late 1940s to the 1980s, ranging from geometricabstract paintings to participatory sculptures and performances. The interactive approach in Clark’s work will be a central aspect of the exhibition. Visitors can interact with a large number of replicas created especially for the show.
A special exhibition by Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in cooperation with Kunsthaus Zürich
Klaus Biesenbach, Director of Neue Nationalgalerie: “We are delighted to present Lygia Clark, one of the most important and yet – in Germany – least known artists of the 20th century. For the first time in Berlin, a large public will be able to discover her important, influential and engaging work presented comprehensively at Neue Nationalgalerie.”
Lygia Clark is regarded as a radical innovator as she fundamentally redefined the relationship between artist and viewer, artwork and space. As a leading figure of Neoconcretismo (the Neo-Concrete movement), initiated in Rio de Janeiro in 1959, she understood art as an organic phenomenon. She demanded a subjective, body-related …
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Image above: Lygia Clark mit ihren „Unidades“ während der Neokonkretistischen Ausstellung, Rio de Janeiro, 1959, © Cultural Association “The World of Lygia Clark” (Ref. 20878)
