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On the occasion of the current collection presentation ‘Zerreißprobe. Art between Politics and Society. Collection of the Nationalgalerie 1945-2000′, the Neue Nationalgalerie invites artists and experts to discuss “Tearing tests” in the past and present from Wednesday, 13 November 2024, to Wednesday, 16 July 2025. The art of the second half of the 20th century is characterised by a diversity of materials, media and methods. At the same time, hardly any other era was so characterised by division and rupture, but also by renewal. The Holocaust and war, upheaval and emancipation, the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall led to tensions within society and to fundamental reorientations in the visual arts. Over 10 evenings, artists and experts will talk about the role of art between politics and society, between everyday life and pop, between nature and ecology, as well as about feminism and fleeting identities.
With Candice Breitz, Eckhart Gillen, Kirsten Glöckner, Katy Hessel, Ewa Partum, Gregor Quack, Anja Salomonowitz, Cornelia Schleime, Marta Smolińska, Klaus Steack, Eric Otieno Sumba, Wolfgang Ullrich, Philip Ursprung and Franz Erhard Walther.
The TALKS will take place from November 2024 to July 2025 on 10 evenings on Wednesdays …
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Image above: Cornelia Schleime, Ich halte doch nicht die Luft an, Selbstinszenierung in Hüpstedt, photograph, 1982 © The artist and Courtesy Galerie Judin, Berlin (Photo: Bernd Hiepe)
