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From October 4 to 14, the ifa Gallery in Stuttgart will be presenting works from Otto Dix’s cycle Der Krieg (The War) in dialogue with contemporary positions from the ifa art collection: Six artists who work with video and performance will juxtapose their video works with 13 selected prints by Dix for the exhibition Was in Wirklichkeit ist (What Really Is) – supplemented by personal statements that highlight the relevance of Dix’s work today. The film works will be presented for the first time in the context of the ifa art collection and at the ifa Gallery Stuttgart. Works by Yvon Chabrowski, Sven Johne, Lisa Kohl, Georg Lutz, Raphael Sbrzesny, and Maya Schweizer are shown in dialogue with works by Otto Dix, curated by Bettina Korintenberg and Susanne Weiß.
Hardly any other artist has captured the horrors of World War I as relentlessly and shockingly in images as Otto Dix. Images that, in their urgency, come close to us and reach into the present. His works touch us, awaken memories, and refer to images from our cultural memory. They raise questions and, in the violence of current wars, take on oppressive relevance. Interest in Dix remains unbroken. Since 1993, his cycle of works Der Krieg (The War) has traveled around the world in a touring exhibition organized by the ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen and conceived in collaboration with Eugen Keuerleber: with 119 stops in over 50 countries worldwide, most recently in …
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Image above: Georg Lutz, Garden, 2023, Filmstill © Georg Lutz, Kunstsammlung des ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V.
