Edvard Munch. Magic of the North – Berlinische Galerie | 15.09.2023–22.01.2024
Edvard Munch’s (1863-1944) radical modernism in painting challenged his time. This was especially true of the Berlin art scene at the turn of the century, on which the Norwegian symbolist had a great influence. The exhibition “Edvard Munch. Magic of the North” is a cooperation with MUNCH in Oslo and tells of the relationship between the Norwegian painter and Berlin through 90 works of painting, graphic art and photography. Thomas Köhler, Director Berlinische Galerie: “Edvard Munch was a central pioneer of modernism. What is far too little known: the Norwegian artist had a great influence on the Berlin art scene at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. An art scandal helped him to first fame in 1892, and finally, in 1927, the Nationalgalerie Berlin hosted the largest retrospective of his work to date. It is a unique opportunity to be able to show Munch’s high-calibre works in such abundance.” Tone Hansen, Director MUNCH: “For Edvard Munch, Germany was the country of his artistic breakthrough and became an important … Continue reading the article on the Edvard Munch exhibition on DEEDS.NEWS Image above: Edvard Munch, Rot und Weiß, 1899–1900, Foto: © MUNCH, Oslo / Halvor […]
Lin May Saeed. Im Paradies fällt der Schnee langsam. A Dialogue with Renée Sintenis – Georg Kolbe Museum | 14.09.2023–25.02.2024
From September 14, 2023, the Georg Kolbe Museum will present the exhibition ” Im Paradies fällt der Schnee langsam” (“In Paradise, the Snow Falls Slowly”) by artist Lin May Saeed as a dialogue with Renée Sintenis. Styrofoam creatures climb out of their cages and colonize the Georg Kolbe Museum, wire lobsters free themselves from captivity with their scissors, figures, taken from ancient sagas reflect in Arabic-language poetry the close relationship between animals and humans. The opening will take place as part of the Berlin Art Week on September 13, 2023 from 6 pm. The German-Iraqi artist Lin May Saeed (1973, Würzburg – 2023, Berlin) spent a good 20 years exploring the lives of animals and their role in a world now dominated by humans. The Georg Kolbe Museum is showing her first solo museum exhibition in Germany. With sculptures, reliefs, expansive silhouettes and drawings, the sculptor created a new visual language of solidarity and … Continue reading the article about this exhibition on DEEDS.NEWS Image above: Exhibition view “Lin May Saeed. Im Paradies fällt der Schnee langsam. A dialogue with Renée Sintenis” Georg Kolbe Museum, 2023, Photo: Enric Duch
Tolia Astakhishvili: THE FIRST FINGER (CHAPTER II) – Haus Am Waldsee (House by the forest lake) | 23.06. – 24.09.2023
In her solo exhibition The First Finger (chapter II), Tolia Astakhishvili (*1974 in Tbilisi, Georgia) transforms the Haus am Waldsee in the course of an expansive installation. In addition to structural interventions, drawings, paintings, text and videos, the exhibition includes new collaborative works with Zurab Astakhishvili, Dylan Peirce and James Richards as well as contributions by Antonin Artaud, Alvin Baltrop, Kirsty Bell, Nat Marcus, Vera Palme, Andreas Rousounelis, Judith Scott, Ser Serpas and Giorgi Zhorzholiani. At the beginning of The First Finger is the image of a physical borderline experience: a body exposed to extreme cold must set priorities in order to protect itself as a whole. For its survival, it rations its energy and sacrifices piece by piece, finger by finger, its most Continue reading the article on the exhibition of Leiko Ikemuras on DEEDS.NEWS Fig. above: Tolia Astakhishvili and James Richards, I Remember (Depth of Flattened Cruelty), 2023, film still, video installation, 10 min, Courtesy the artists; Cabinet, London; Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin; LC Queisser, Tbilisi (HIGHER RESOLUTION FILE ON REQUEST)
Gropius Bau: Indigo Waves and Other Stories | 06.04-13.08.2023
Gropius Bau is currently presenting the exhibition Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora, which brings together the work of various contemporary artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers and scholars. Through new works and existing projects, the group exhibition traces the connections between Africa and Asia, highlighting the intersections and diasporic transfers between the two continents, which are increasingly gaining global political, economic and cultural significance in this century. As a common horizon, the Indian Ocean makes visible the different shades of cultural, linguistic, political and historical transitions from antiquity to the present. The focus of Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora is an attempt to examine the long history of exchange across the Indian Ocean … Continue reading the article on the exhibition of Gropius Bau: Indigo Waves and Other Stories on DEEDS.NEWS Fig. above: Adama Delphine Fawundu, Sopdet Illuminates, 2017 Archivpigment auf 100% Baumwollfaserp pier, 23 x 34 12 Zoll Courtesy die Künstlerin
Berlinische Galerie shows Pınar Öğrenci with the film “Aşît/The Avalanche” | 26.05- 31.07.2023
At the Berlinische Galerie, Pınar Öğrenci will show the film “Aşît/The Avalanche” (2022, 60 min.), produced for documenta fifteen. The inspiration and starting point for it was Stefan Zweig’s “Chess Novella”, written in 1942 in Brazilian exile, in which the game of chess becomes a survival strategy in the face of fascism. Öğrenci has returned to her father’s hometown, Müküs (Bahçesaray in Turkish), for her work. This is in the Van region on Turkey’s border with Iran. Until 1915, the town’s education system and heritage transmission were multilingual: Armenian, Kurdish, Farsi and Arabic co-existed. Today it has a high proportion of Kurdish population. The title of the film “Aşît” is Kurdish and means “avalanche” and “catastrophe”. It refers both to the avalanche that threatens to cut Müküs off from the rest of the world and to “Meds Yeghern” (The Great Catastrophe) of 1915, the genocide of about 1.5 million Armenians during the First World War. In her visually powerful work, Öğrenci shows the everyday strategies of the Kurdish population under state pressure. The film addresses the traces of the different cultures that were present in Müküs before parts of the population were murdered, expelled or forced to assimilate. A central […]
Leiko Ikemura | Witty Witches | Georg Kolbe Museum | 21.01.-01.05.2023
Leiko Ikemura is an internationally renowned artist whose work spans the genres of drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and poetry. At the centre of her work is an exploration of nature, the theme of femininity and the cyclical rhythm of life and death. In her solo exhibition at the Georg Kolbe Museum, the artist, who has lived in Berlin since 1990, presents hybrid beings in flux between growth and decay and questions forms of human existence. The exhibition is primarily dedicated to Ikemura’s sculptural work. The show features more than 30 sculptures and selected paintings and drawings since the 1990s, including Continue reading the article on the exhibition of Leiko Ikemuras on DEEDS.NEWS Image above: Lying Head, 2020-21, © Leiko Ikemura und VG Bild-Kunst, Foto Jörg von Bruchhausen
Die Kunst der Gesellschaft 1900-1945 (The Art of Society, Event Series) – Neue Nationalgalerie | 07.09.2022–07.06.2023
On the occasion of the exhibition “Die Kunst der Gesellschaft” (The Art of Society) in the Neue Nationalgalerie, a monthly series of events from September 2022 to July 2023 will discuss social processes of a turbulent time: the German Empire, colonial history, the First World War, the “Golden” Twenties, National Socialism as well as the Second World War and the Holocaust. With Vincenza Benedettino, Bernhard Fulda, Tanja Penter, Jutta Allmendinger, Sonja Eismann, Sabina Becker, Derya Binışık, Volker Weiß, Thomas Röske, Javier Téllez, Lisa Hörstmann, Monica Juneja, Yvette Mutumba, Julian Rosefeldt, Tom Tykwer (tbc), Inka Bertz, Eric Otieno Sumba, Alice Hasters and Aya Soika. Entrance is … Read the article further on DEEDS.NEWS Image above: Max Ernst, L’Élue du mal, 1928, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022, National Museums in Berlin, Nationalgalerie, acquired by the State of Berlin in 1967, Photo: Andres Kilger
Sammlung Scharf Gerstenberg shows Goya: Yo lo vi – Ich sah es – I Saw It | 19.08.-06.11.2022
Yo lo vi” (I saw it) was Francisco de Goya’s comment on the 44th sheet of his “Desastres” from 1863. In view of the current war in Europe, the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection is dedicated to the famous Spanish court painter, who denounced wars and social grievances in his cycles. With the sale of the 80 etchings and aquatints “Caprichos”, Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) addressed a new clientele for the first time and denounced social grievances. Ten years later, in the 82-sheet cycle “Desastres de la guerra” (1863), he denounced the loss of reason and violence in the struggle against the occupation by Napoleonic troops and the famines at the beginning of the 19th century. The exhibition shows around three … Read the article further on DEEDS.NEWS Image above:Los desastres de la guerra, 1810-1820 80 etchings, bound Sheet 18: Enterrar y callar Begraben und schweigen Bury and shut up Collection Julietta Scharf, Berlin Photos: Dietmar Katz, Berlin
Kristina Schuldt: Unverwüstlich – Mönchehaus Museum Goslar | 24.07.-18.09.2022
The Mönchehaus Museum Goslar presents the exhibition Unverwüstlich (Indestructible) by the artist Kristina Schuldt from July 24th to September 18th. On display are the artist’s works from 2012 to 2022. The Leipzig master student of Neo Rauch paints large-format everyday scenes with powerful, self-confident figures. Kristina Schuldt‘s pictorial personnel is mostly female. The figures lie, fall, loll and bend in front of different backdrops, they seem to be in conflict with their surroundings. It often remains unclear whether they are in combat or at play. Their visible body parts look like … Read the article further on DEEDS.NEWS Image above: Kristina Schuldt, Zwingen, 2022, Oil and egg tempera on canvas, 180 x 220 cm, © Kristina Schuldt, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022, courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin, Photo: Uwe Walter, Berlin
NEWS: Museum Barberini | Four new Monet masterpieces | Ticket Summer Special | 15.07.-31.08.2022
In a solo show, the Museum Barberini presents the new works from the Hasso Plattner Collection. Four virtually unknown paintings by Claude Monet expand the Potsdam art museum’s Impressionist focus with its now 107 Impressionist paintings. With 38 paintings by Monet, it shows the largest complex of works by this artist in Europe outside of Paris. The museum is celebrating the new acquisitions with a reduced ticket summer special: from July 15th to August 31st 2022, visitors pay only ten euros daily from 4 pm to 7 pm and a reduced fee of eight euros to visit the Impressionism collection and the current exhibition “The Form of Freedom. International Abstraction after 1945”. Four new paintings by Claude Monet are on permanent loan from the Hasso Plattner Foundation to complement the Museum Barberini’s Impressionist holdings. They were painted between 1874 and 1901 and form a representative cross-section of Claude Monet’s work, to which the Museum Barberini, in cooperation with the Denver Art Museum, dedicated the exhibition Monet. Places. The paintings The Pond in the Snow (1874/75), The Spherical Tree in Argenteuil (1876), The Apple Tree (1879) and The Parliament, Sunset (1901-03) were previously in … Read the article further on DEEDS.NEWS Image above: Claude Monet, The Parliament, Sunset, […]
These Berlin art museums + art venues are open on Mondays
“Galleries, museums and hairdressers are closed on Mondays. Fortunately, this old saying does not apply across the board in Berlin. In the capital, you can also visit some art museums, cultural institutions and even a few galleries on Mondays. And certainly one or two hairdressers as well. Art museums, galleries + institutions open on Mondays Museums Architekturmuseum der TU Asiatisches Museum (im Humboldtforum) Museum Barberini (Potsdam) Berlinische Galerie … Read the article with all art spaces further on DEEDS.NEWS Image above: View on the house, 2016, Photo: Enric Duch, © Image archive Georg Kolbe Museum
Every day at the museum. Museum guards present their favourite works | 17.06.-02.10.2022
From Velázquez’ Portrait of a Lady in the Gemäldegalerie to the tile fields of Iznik ceramics in the Pergamon Museum: in six houses of the National Museums in Berlin at the Kulturforum, in Dahlem, in Köpenick and on the Museum Island Berlin, 30 museum guards present their favourite works from the Gemäldegalerie, the Collection of Classical Antiquities, the Egyptian Museum, the Museum of Islamic Art, the Museum of the Ancient Near East, the Museum of Decorative Arts and the Museum of European Cultures. Hardly anyone spends as much time with the objects in museums as the security staff. Day in and day out, museum guards watch over the works, greet visitors and develop their very own relationship with entire collections and individual exhibits. From a wide variety of backgrounds and with a wide range of interests and experiences, the participants have a very personal, everyday view of the works and thus open up diverse perspectives that are to be made visible in the context of the special presentation. “Every Day at the Museum. Museum guards present their favourite works” is a cross-collection exhibition intervention in which a total of 34 works from the permanent exhibitions of the Gemäldegalerie … Continue […]
Think Big! Gail Rothschild portrays late antique textile finds from Egypt at the Bode Museum | 01.07.-31.10.2022
Women and their role in art and society continue to be in focus at the Bode Museum. Parallel to the current exhibition “Der zweite Blick: Women”, a special exhibition by the New York artist Gail Rothschild will be presented from 1 July 2022. Egyptian textiles from the rich collection of the Museum of Byzantine Art are the source of inspiration for her new series of monumental paintings. In juxtaposition with knitted textiles from the 4th to 9th centuries, a fascinating dynamic emerges between past cultural testimonies and contemporary artistic creation. Gail Rothschild (*1959 in New York City) lives in Brooklyn. After graduating from Yale, Rothschild began a career as a travelling artist. For museums and colleges across the United States, she created site-specific installations that explore the country’s lesser-known women’s and Native American history. In collaboration with international museums … Continue reading the article on DEEDS.NEWS. Image above: Gail Rothschild, Portrait, 2022, © Gail Rothschild
Haus am Waldsee: Thomas Florschuetz – Überlagerungen | 20.05.-28.08.2022
With a pointed selection of the most diverse groups of works, mainly from the last five years, the Haus am Waldsee will provide a multifaceted insight into the work of Thomas Florschuetz from May 2022. The artist, who was awarded the Dorothea von Stetten Art Prize and is also a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts, is considered one of the most important representatives of contemporary photography. Florschuetz’s work comprises numerous series characterised by very different subjects and themes. The selection of his pictorial content is often characterised by an approach that emphasises the opposite. The focus of his work is on the gaze and the form of realisation and less on the reproduction of content. The intuitive moment in capturing the respective pictorial objects and scenarios plays the essential role. Thomas Florschuetz, born in Zwickau in 1957, develops projects and pictorial ideas based on his interest in the constant change of bodies and spaces under the premises of light and time. His photographs are pictorial excerpts of … Lire la suite de l’article sur DEEDS.NEWS. Image above: Thomas Florschuetz, Ohne Titel (E.B.) 27, 2016/2021, 183 x 243 cm, C-Print, Courtesy der Künstler und DIEHL, Berlin, © VG […]
Kein Mensch kennt mich. Iris Häussler begegnet Benjamine Kolbe (No one knows me. Iris Häussler meets Benjamine Kolbe) – Georg Kolbe Museum | 05.03.-29.05.2022
Like many artists’ wives of her time, Benjamine Kolbe (1881-1927) remained in the shadow of her husband. Thanks to the spectacular estate find that came to the Georg Kolbe Museum in 2020, several hundred letters and photographs can now shed light on the darkness for the first time and answer the question: Who was the woman Kolbe adored and immortalised in countless works? At the same time, the German-Canadian artist Iris Häussler creates a feminist commentary on the male-dominated history of the 20th century in a spatial installation in the large studio. She brings to life two female artists who never existed but could have. In Häussler’s work, what historiography has overlooked becomes reality. “No one knows me, only you know how I am, only to you have I given myself as I am, other people don’t need to know that either”, Benjamine van der Meer de Walcheren (1881-1927) confesses to the young Georg Kolbe (1877-1947) at the beginning of their acquaintance. … Read the article further on DEEDS.NEWS Image caption: Georg Kolbe, Portrait Benjamine Kolbe, ink drawing around 1903 © Photo: Markus Hilbich, Bildarchiv Georg Kolbe Museum
Fantastic Beasts in Graphic Art from the 15th to the 18th Century in the Kupferstichkabinett | 01.02.-05.06.2022
From 1 February 2022, the Kupferstichkabinett will be presenting around 30 virtuoso prints, copper engravings and etchings from the 15th to 18th centuries in its cabinet in the Gemäldegalerie, showing the joyful delight in inventing the fabulous and the strange. Long before current creations such as the Grüffelo or Schlickschlupfen and Flubberwurmn from the novels of J. K. Rowling, authors and artists were dealing with real animals and magical creatures whose existence was conjured up in … Read the article further on DEEDS.NEWS. Bildunterschrift: Hendrick Goltzius, The Dragon Devours the Companions of Cadmos, 1588, copperplate engraving, © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett / Dietmar Katz
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin celebrates 25th anniversary with two exhibitions
On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, Hamburger Bahnhof will be showing two major exhibition projects starting Sunday, November 28, 2021: The two shows “Church for Sale. Works from the Haubrok Collection and the National Gallery Collection” and “Nation, Narration, Narcosis: Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories” address the Museum für Gegenwart’s collecting mission. The former terminus of the Hamburg-Berlin rail line opened in 1996 as another National Gallery home for post-1960 art. The anniversary also marks the continuation of monthly admission-free Thursday afternoons as part of Volkswagen Art4All, beginning Thursday, December 2, 2021. Gabriele Knapstein, Director of Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin says on the occasion of the anniversary: “Part of the mission of the Museum für Gegenwart in Hamburger Bahnhof is to constantly complement and explore the collection of the Nationalgalerie in the field of contemporary art. To this end, we are also building … Read the article further on DEEDS.NEWS Image caption: Hamburger Bahnhof, about 2015, Photo Maximilian Meisse
Mies van der Rohe Haus shows Gregor Hildebrandt with exhibition “Im Sturz durch Raum und Zeit” | until 27.03.2022
For the first time in the history of the Mies van der Rohe Haus, an exhibition will occupy the entire expanse of the outdoor space. In the exhibition “Im Sturz durch Raum und Zeit” (> In the fall through space and time), which can be seen from 10 October 2021 to 27 March 2022, the lake Obersee also becomes a reflection surface. Gregor Hildebrandt has realised a grandiose work for the house – diverse and poetic at the same time. A black sail is hoisted on the Obersee. Hildebrandt’s installation, a black sail woven from magnetic tapes, can only be seen live for a short time at the beginning of the exhibition. A bronze pawn chess piece over two metres high marks the garden space. The two opposite exhibition rooms of the L-shaped Mies van der Rohe house are conceived as a positive-negative space and thus also set in relation to each other beyond the architectural by means of art. Gregor Hildebrandt, born in Bad Homburg in 1974, is professor of painting and graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Hildebrandt runs his studio in Berlin, where he also lives. … Read the article further on DEEDS.NEWS. […]
Tony Cragg | Drawing as Continuum | Haus am Waldsee | bis 09.01.2021
As an exhibition venue for international art, the Haus am Waldsee has had a special relationship with sculpture since it began exhibiting in 1946. Since the extension and general renovation of the building in 2017/18, the Haus am Waldsee is pleased to have on loan the large outdoor sculpture “Versus” (2011/19) by the British sculptor Tony Cragg (*1949). In autumn 2021, it will now dedicate a large exhibition to the drawing work of the internationally active and multi-award-winning sculptor with his works on paper, which will be complemented by individual sculptures in the interior. The show focuses on works from the 1980s until today. On display are hand drawings, watercolours, lithographs and etchings that allow a deep insight into the artistic-scientific thinking of Tony Cragg. … Read the article further on DEEDS.NEWS. Image caption: Installation view, Tony Cragg – Drawing as Continuum, Haus am Waldsee 2021, Photo: Roman März, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021.
First retrospective: Louise Stomps | Natur Gestalten Skulpturen 1928–1988 | Berlinische Galerie | 15.10.2021-17.01.2022
THE VERBORGENE MUSEUM is a guest at the Berlinische Galerie and presents the first retrospective of the sculptor Louise Stomps (1900-1988). With around 90 sculptures, the exhibition provides an insight into the life’s work of this extraordinary artist. Her bronze figures “Pilger”, “Einsamer” and “Gilgamesh”, which are over three metres high and were donated to the Berlinische Galerie by Louise Stomps’ heirs, can also be seen in the staircase hall for the first time. Louise Stomps hat ein imposantes Werk hinterlassen, das nach ihrem Tod jedoch nur selten ausgestellt wurde. Menschliches Leid und die schutzlose Kreatur sind für die Berliner Bildhauerin ein Leben lang Inspiration. Sie stehen im Mittelpunkt ihres bildnerischen Schaffens, das zwischen den ausklingenden 1920er und den späten 1980er Jahren entstand. „BE OPEN TO THE NEW AND TAKE MODERN ART IN ITS INDESCRIBABLE FRESHNESS AND DETACHMENT AS A COMPASS FOR A NEW TIME.“ Louise Stomps Read the article further on DEEDS.NEWS. Image caption: Photo: Anonymous, Louise Stomps and „Die Scheue“, Berlin 1946 © Louise Stomps Estate.
The Collection Solly 1821–2021 | From picture “chaos” to Gemäldegalerie | 21.10.2021-16.01.2022
The acquisition of the painting collection of the English merchant Edward Solly in 1821 gave Berlin a world-class public art collection. With masterpieces by Raphael, Hans Holbein the Younger and Rembrandt, the “Solly Collection” still forms the basis of the Berlin Gemäldegalerie. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary, the special exhibition spanning the entire building pays tribute to this courageous coup, unique in Europe, and presents the works and protagonists of this invaluable stroke of luck for the Berlin museums. In the early 19th century, an unprecedented collection of paintings was created in Berlin, which was to become the basis of the gallery in the Royal Museum (today’s Altes Museum), which opened in 1830. Edward Solly (1776-1844), who came from England and worked in the Baltic region, had earned a lot of money from the trade in grain and wood – and invested it in paintings of all kinds. In the years 1813 to 1821 alone, he brought together more than 3000 paintings in his house in Berlin’s Wilhelmstraße, mainly from Italy, Germany and the Netherlands. “Imagine an accumulation of about 8-9 thousand pictures, of which at most 400 say four hundred are set up”, August von Goethe wrote […]
Tomas Schmit | sachen m a c h e n | Drawing, Action, Language 1970–2006 | Kupferstichkabinett + n.b.k. | 15.09.2021-09.01.2022
The Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) of the National Museums in Berlin and the Neue Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) are currently devoting themselves to the German action artist and draughtsman Tomas Schmit (1943-2006). Since the Berlin Art Week (since 15.09.), both museums have been showing two large exhibitions in parallel until the beginning of January 2022 under the title that takes up Schmit’s credo: “sachen m a c h e n”. These exhibitions were realised in cooperation with the Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art and the tomas schmit archiv, Berlin. While the n.b.k. focuses on Schmit’s Fluxus activities, the Kupferstichkabinett is hosting the first retrospective of his drawings in Berlin. The exhibition of around 170 exhibits with works from the museum’s own collection, supplemented by outstanding loans … Read the article further on DEEDS.NEWS. Image caption: Tomas Schmit, Porträt, 1978, © Dagmar Gebers
Ólafur Elíasson | A View Becomes a Window | Neues Museum | 23.09.2021-16.01.2022
From 23 September 2021, the Neues Museum in Berlin will exhibit the artist’s book “A View Becomes a Window” by Danish artist Ólafur Elíasson in the Niobiden Hall. The filigree work, consisting entirely of glass pages, will be turned over in public screenings for the museum’s visitors at the start of this special presentation. The artist created the work on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the publishing house Ivorypress, which is presenting it in cooperation with the Egyptian Museum and the Papyrus Collection – National Museums in Berlin in the Neues Museum on Museum Island. The leather-bound book contains glass sheets of varying colour, quality and translucency instead of paper pages. Its portrait format is reminiscent of that of an atlas and is literally full of illuminations: Light is reflected, refracted and guided by the glass pages. When the pages are turned, the different layers of coloured glass create … Read the article further on DEEDS.NEWS. Image caption: Ólafur Elíasson, A View Becomes A Window, © Ólafur Elíasson, Ivorypress
Henrike Naumann | Einstürzende Reichsbauten | Kunsthaus Dahlem | 08.08.-28.11.2021
until 28.11. | #3144ARTatBerlin | Kunsthaus Dahlem currently shows the exhibition “Einstürzende Reichsbauten” by the author and artist Henrike Naumann. Beginning in the spring of 1933, the National Socialists were manifesting their newly acquired claim to power on all levels. An important aspect of this was penetrating society, even into private space. This not only meant idealizing conservative gender roles and images of the family as well as introducing “Heil Hitler” as an everyday greeting that glorified the dictator but was also reflected in day-to-day life, for example, in the design of interiors, furniture, and home decor. Henrike Naumann takes the w despread presence of propaganda in daily life as a reason to reflect in the exhibition »Einstürzende Reichsbauten« (Collapsing Reich Buildings) on the fusing of art, ideology, and interior design. In the former state studio of the Nazi sculptor Arno Breker—today Kunsthaus Dahlem—Henrike Naumann has staged the private-looking interior of a living space. In the center is the design of the reception area of Adolf Hitler’s residence in Obersalzberg. Part of the installation is original furniture from the former Haus der Deutschen Kunst, now Haus der Kunst in Munich, another architectural status symbol from the Nazi era. This setting […]
Anna Dorothea Therbusch | Gemäldegalerie | 03.12.2021-10.04.2022
Today 300 years ago, on 23 July 1721, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, one of the most important female artists of the 18th century, was born in Berlin. To mark this milestone anniversary, in autumn 2021 the Gemäldegalerie will pay tribute to this extraordinary artist and pioneer of emancipation with a focused special exhibition featuring selected works from the National Museums in Berlin’s own holdings. The unusual career path of Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721-1782) began as the daughter of the Prussian court painter Georg Lisiewsky, from whom she received her first training as a painter at an early age, as did her siblings. However, as the wife of an innkeeper and mother of five children, her skills in this field initially remained unused. From the age of 40, she devoted herself all the more energetically to painting, so that in 1767 she was one of the few women ever to be admitted to the most important European art academy of the time, the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris. Back in her home town, she became a sought-after portrait painter and an important chronicler of the Age of Enlightenment with portraits of Henriette Herz, Frederick II and the physician […]
Von der Sprache aus. Joseph Beuys on the occasion of his 100th birthday | Hamburger Bahnhof | 13.06.-19.09.2021
From 13 June 2021, the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart Berlin is scheduled to show the special exhibition ” Von der Sprache aus. Joseph Beuys on the 100th Birthday”. To mark the 100th anniversary of Joseph Beuys’ birth, Hamburger Bahnhof is placing language at the centre of an exhibition that includes sculptures, drawings, installations, films, posters and documents from the holdings of the National Gallery, the Marx Collection, the Museum of Prints and Drawings and the Art Library. As part of the exhibition, the central cycle “The secret block for a secret person in Ireland” will be shown, among other things, for the first time since 2014. Joseph Beuys in his flat in Düsseldorf, 1981 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, Sammlung Marzona / Winfried Göllner In 1985, Joseph Beuys contributed to the series “Speeches about one’s own country: Germany” at the Münchner Kammerspiele. In his speech, he stated that he developed his works from language. For him, language contained a plastic power through whose conscious shaping each and every individual could participate physically, intellectually and communicatively in the reorganisation of society. On the basis of 25 works from 1945 to 1985, the exhibition traces Beuys’ engagement with language, […]
Decadence and Digital Dreams | Virtual Exhibition on Belgian Symbolism | Alte Nationalgalerie | Live Tours on 08.04. + 16.04.2021
The Alte Nationalgalerie is currently presenting the virtual exhibition Decadence and Digital Dreams, an exhibition on Belgian Symbolism. The exhibition was originally scheduled to run from 18 September 2020 to 17 January 2021 and can now be visited online free of charge. There will also be 20-minute live tours of one of the main works in the Alte Nationalgalerie on 8 and 16 April at 6pm each, which can be viewed live on the National Museums in Berlin’s Instagram channel. The large-scale special exhibition “Decadence and Dark Dreams. Belgian Symbolism”, which could only be shown for a short time in the Alte Nationalgalerie due to its closure for corona reasons, can now be visited virtually in a high-resolution 360-degree tour: The lustful gaze of an oversaturated society into the abyss, the morbid allure between Thanatos and Eros are thematic fields in art that found expression at the end of the 19th century, especially in Belgian Symbolism. The exhibition, which for corona reasons could only be shown at the Alte Nationalgalerie from 18 September to 2 November 2020, traces the art movement of the fin-de-siecle with around 200 works by more than 30 artists – including masterpieces by Fernand Khnopff, Leon […]
Yael Bartana | Redemption Now | Jüdisches Museum Berlin | 26.04.-10.10.2021
From 26 April 2021, the Jewish Museum Berlin (JMB) will present Yael Bartana – Redemption Now. This large-scale solo exhibition of the contemporary artist Yael Bartana investigates the power of imagination and art’s redemptive potential. For more than twenty years, Bartana has been inquiring into grand historical narratives that help to constitute national and other collective identities. Curators: Dr. Shelley Harten und Dr. Gregor H. Lersch. The show brings together more than fifty early and more recent works, including video installations, photographs, and neon works. The exhibition follows an eschatological topos—the recurring idea that a leader may bring salvation—and its deconstruction. At the core of the show is the commissioned video work Malka Germania (Hebrew for “Queen Germania”), which Bartana conceived for the Jewish Museum Berlin and produced at historically charged locations across Berlin. An androgynous savior figure comes to the German capital. Her journey floods the city with scenes from an imagined collective unconscious; past and future merge in an alternative present. The installation’s theme of collective redemption addresses traumata, hopes of salvation, and the desire for change. Yael Bartana’s works have been exhibited worldwide and form part of international collections. She is known for exploring the visual languages […]
Virtual tour through Gemäldegalerie | 58 rooms, 112 panoramas, 1,200 art works
Following the Bode Museum, the Gemäldegalerie can now also be explored digitally in its entirety and in two languages – in a high-resolution 360° tour that covers 58 rooms, 112 panoramas and around 1,200 works of art with a wealth of background information. The National Museums in Berlin are thus publishing another virtual tour of one of their museum collections. The virtual tour is deliberately oriented towards the museum tour on site and enables a realistic spatial impression of the Gemäldegalerie. Even when visiting the museum digitally from home, exciting cross-connections and axes of vision open up. “I am delighted that we can now make the Gemäldegalerie’s collection, in all its splendour and significance, accessible to art enthusiasts all over the world,” says Michael Eissenhauer, Director General of the National Museums in Berlin. “For the first time, this digital offering not only presents all the exhibited works and explains them with background information, but also places them in a comprehensible context in terms of content.” Julien Chapuis, Director of the Gemäldegalerie and Skulpturensammlung, continues: “This elaborate project would not have been possible without the close collegial cooperation between the Gemäldegalerie and the Kaiser Friedrich Museumsverein. Our thanks go in particular […]
Live tours through museums and exhibitions in December
After the successful start in the Friedrichswerder Church and the Old National Gallery in November, the National Museums in Berlin are continuing their series with live tours of the currently closed museums and special exhibitions in December. The half-hour tours with director* and curator* are shown live on the Instagram Channel of the National Museums in Berlin and are also available online afterwards (link below). Museumsinsel Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie: Dekadenz und dunkle Träume. Der belgische Symbolismus online since Friday, 27th November 2020, 4 p.m. The lustful gaze of a saturated society into the abyss, the morbid attraction between Thanatos and Eros are themes in art that found expression in the late 19th century, particularly in Belgian Symbolism. The large-scale special exhibition in the Old National Gallery is devoted to this artistic movement that emerged in the 1880s, with Brussels as its main centre, and presents the spectrum of hitherto little known Belgian positions such as Fernand Khnopff, Léon Spilliaert, or Jean Delville as an important reference for European Symbolism. Ralph Gleis, director of the Alte Nationalgalerie and curator of the exhibition, will guide through the exhibition. Kulturforum, Kunstgewerbemuseum: ATMOISM – Gestaltete Atmosphären Friday, 4th December 2020, 4 p.m. Designer Hermann […]
The unkown political prisoner | Kunsthaus Dahlem | 30.10.2020-21.02.2021
Kunsthaus Dahlem shows from 30th October 2020 the exhibition “The unkown political prisoner”. The competition for the Monument to the Unknown Political Prisoner was probably the most important art competition of the post-war period. More than 3,000 artists from all over the world participated, including sculptors and architects such as Max Bill, Alexander Calder, Naum Gabo, Barbara Hepworth, and Bernhard Heiliger. Like no other competition after 1945, it reflects a highly ideological art policy: within the tensions of the East-West conflict, it was announced in January 1952 by the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. Both the Eastern Bloc countries and the Soviet Union boycotted the competition – in all probability because they were aware that its financing had been arranged by the American secret service. Recent research has even conjectured that the competition was essentially directly financed by the CIA. More than 3,000 sculptors from 57 nations worldwide responded to the announcement and submitted about 1,500 designs. With 262 submissions, the still young Federal Republic of Germany had the largest number of participants. Whereas the older, mostly figurative generation did not join in, young artists saw it as an opportunity to attract international attention. For the first time, […]
Bunny Rogers | Self Portrait as clone of Jeanne D’Arc | Hamburger Bahnhof | 25.10.2020-28.02.2021
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin is showing the special presentation Self Portrait as clone of Jeanne D’Arc by the artist Bunny Rogers from 25 October 2020. On the occasion of the donation by private sponsors* as a great thank you to Udo Kittelmann, Director of the Nationalgalerie, who is retiring from his post at the end of October 2020, Hamburger Bahnhof is presenting the installation “Self Portrait as clone of Jeanne D’Arc” by Bunny Rogers in a special presentation. The central work of the US-American artist reflects the complexity of youthful femininity, the fear, intensity and narcissism associated with it by means of personal and pop cultural references. Bunny Rogers, Self-portrait as Clone of Jeanne d’Arc (Paige Joan), 2019 Bild aus 15teiligem Zyklus, Kunstdruck auf Hahnemühle PhotoRag Ultrasmooth auf Aluminium, versilberter Künstler*innenrahmen, lila, 200,5 x 163 x 7,5 cm, Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, erworben 2020 durch private Förder*innen zu Ehren von Udo Kittelmann (Direktor der Nationalgalerie 2008-2020), © die Künstlerin und Société Bunny Rogers, Self-portrait as Clone of Jeanne d’Arc (Vanessa Joan), 2019 Bild aus 15teiligem Zyklus, Kunstdruck auf Hahnemühle PhotoRag Ultrasmooth auf Aluminium, versilberter Künstler*innenrahmen, lila, 200,5 x 163 x 7,5 cm, Nationalgalerie – […]
FOTOGRAFIE. Wolfgang Schulz and the photo scene around 1980 | Museum für Fotografie | 16.07.-11.10.2020
From 16 July 2020, the Museum of Photography is showing the exhibition “FOTOGRAFIE. Wolfgang Schulz and the photo scene around 1980”. The focus is on the magazine “FOTOGRAFIE. Zeitschrift internationaler Fotokunst” and its editor Wolfgang Schulz. With around 240 works by Wolfgang Schulz and other photographers*, the exhibition is illuminating an important period of drastic change in the history of West German photography. Addendum: As has now become known, Wolfgang Schulz died on 14 July 2020, two days before the opening of the exhibition, after a long illness. In the years around 1980 photography gained a new status in the art world. New approaches to photography were explored; museums began to show interest in the medium; the first photo galleries opened; photography had its first major appearance at documenta in 1977; and photo magazines were launched. The starting point for the current exhibition on this exciting, transformative period is the photo magazine “FOTOGRAFIE. Zeitschrift internationaler Fotokunst“ (subsequently “Fotografie: Kultur jetzt“), produced in forty issues between 1977 and 1985 under the editorship of Wolfgang Schulz. Hans-Christian Adam, Unterwasser-Gruppenportrait, aus der Serie „Schwimmer“, Vigaun bei Hallein, Salzburg, 1985, Silbergelatinepapier, Leihgabe des Künstlers, © Hans Christian Adam The periodical quickly developed into a […]
Otobong Nkanga | There’s No Such Thing as Solid Ground | Martin-Gropius-Bau | 10.07.-13.12.2020
Martin-Gropius-Bau presents from 10th July 2020 the exhibition “There’s No Such Thing as Solid Ground” by the artist Otobong Nkanga. The complex and shifting relationship between humans, land, and corresponding structures of repair is a central premise of Otobong Nkanga’s exhibition at the Gropius Bau titled There’s No Such Thing as Solid Ground. Addressing global systems of exploitation and extraction, her work turns a poetic and critical eye toward the circulation of people, flora and fauna as well as natural resources, especially minerals. Nkanga understands the notion of ‘land’ as a geological and discursive formation that extends beyond soil, mapped territories and earth. It is a terrain on which ecological, economic, political and social forces are caught up in rhythms of conflict and negotiation. A place, where we as humans struggle to find solutions through gestures of innovation, redistribution and cohabitation. Based on intensive research and the weaving together of mediums, including installation, performance, drawing, poetry and storytelling, Nkanga’s work spans the temporality of colonial regimes and the global networks operative ‘beneath the surface’ and acting on living bodies. There’s No Such Thing as Solid Ground presents a series of durational installations and performance works, alongside a new wall drawing and multi-channel sound […]
Katharina Grosse | It Wasn’t Us | Hamburger Bahnhof | 14.06.2020-10.01.2021
Since June 14, 2020, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin has been showing the site-specific painting It Wasn’t Us by the artist Katharina Grosse, which extends to the outside area at the back of the building. Katharina Grosse’s paintings can appear anywhere: on a rubber boot, on an egg, on the crumpled folds of a cloth, along a railway line, on the beach, in snow, on a sculptural form, or across a façade and on the roof. Her large-scale works are multi-dimensional pictorial worlds in which splendid colours sweep across walls, ceilings, objects, and even entire buildings and landscapes. Central to Grosse’s artistic practice is this notion that painting takes place not just on canvas, but that it can also permeate every facet of our surroundings. For the exhibition “Katharina Grosse. It Wasn’t Us”, the artist has transformed the Historic Hall of Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, as well as the outdoor space behind the building, into an expansive painting which radically destabilises the existing order of the museum architecture. The artist’s latest in situ painting disregards the boundaries of the museum space in a grand and colourful gesture: “I painted my way out of […]
Reopening: Gemäldegalerie, Alte Nationalgalerie, Altes Museum, Pergamonmuseum. The Panorama, Pop on Paper | 12.05.2020
On Tuesday, 12 May 2020, the National Museums in Berlin will initially reopen four museums and a special exhibition: on Museum Island Berlin, the Altes Museum, the Alte Nationalgalerie and ‘Pergamonmuseum. The Panorama’, at the Kulturforum the Gemäldegalerie and the special exhibition ‘Pop on Paper’ will be accessible under the following conditions: The number of visitors admitted at the same time is limited, the wearing of a mouth-nose cover is obligatory. In order to avoid queues, a visit to the museum is only possible with a time slot ticket. It is strongly recommended to book tickets online in advance: www.smb.museum/tickets. “We are pleased to lift the closure of some of our museums, which has been in effect since 14 March 2020 due to the Corona Pandemic,” said Michael Eissenhauer, Director General of the National Museums in Berlin. “The selected museums have spacious premises, are spread over several locations and are characterised by their diversity of content. Our primary aim is to make an offer to Berliners and to invite them to rediscover and rediscover their museums and art treasures. Nevertheless, it is only the level-headedness of all the people on site that makes an untroubled visit to the museum possible […]
#CollectingCorona, magical protective objects + Jazz in the Garden | New Online Offers of the National Museums in Berlin
For the weekend, the National Museums in Berlin are offering new digital content and exciting stories from their diverse collections: The Museum of European Cultures launches its appeal #CollectingCorona and asks for personal impressions of pandemic-influenced everyday life. The New National Gallery remembers legendary music concerts in its sculpture garden. And the directors* of the Sculpture Collection and the Museum of the Ancient Near East lead to objects of protection and hope* in the YouTube series “Alone in the Museum”. #CollectingCorona at Museum Europäischer Kulturen The corona pandemic is currently changing the daily lives of all people in Europe. The Museum of European Cultures (MEK) collects, researches, preserves, presents and communicates everyday culture in Europe from the 18th century to the present. For this reason, the MEK calls on people all over Europe to submit personal impressions, thoughts and testimonies under the hashtag #CollectingCorona, in order to document for future generations how Europeans* feel about dealing with the pandemic: What is on our minds right now? How has our everyday life changed? What worries do we have? All anonymous or by name at the email address mek@smb.spk-berlin.de submitted texts, photos or videos will become part of the MEK’s collection after […]
Jenny Holzer | Men don’t protect you anymore | Kolonnadenhof Museum Island Berlin
On International Women’s Day, 8 March 2020, the special exhibition “Struggle for Visibility. Women Artists of the National Gallery before 1919” in the Alte Nationalgalerie will come to an end. With Jenny Holzer’s work “Men don’t protect you anymore”, now presented in the Kolonnadenhof on Berlin’s Museum Island, the theme of the visibility of women artists will continue to be present in public space. The 7.5 x 25.5 cm aluminium plaque with the words “Men don’t protect you anymore” is part of the “Survival” series developed by Jenny Holzer between 1983 and 1985. In the tradition of Piero Manzoni’s apparently empty pedestals, the plaque is permanently installed on a sculpture pedestal in the colonnade courtyard, similar to an object inscription, thus commenting in a prominent position not only on the gender debate, but also on the theme of the visibility of female artists. Survival: Men don’t protect you anymore, Ansicht Kolonnadenhof, Museumsinsel Berlin, Courtesy Sprüth Magers, © 1984 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, Foto: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / David von Becker Since the 1970s, the American artist Jenny Holzer (born 1950) has been experimenting with the means of language in public space. Her so-called “Truisms” […]
Blue Skies, Red Panic | The 1950s in Europe. A photographic review | Museum für Fotografie | 29.01.-23.02.2020
The Museum für Fotografie shows the exhibition “Blue Skies, Red Panic. The 1950s in Europe. A photographic review” since 29th January 2020. The photo exhibition illuminates an era that marked a new social and political beginning in Europe. A special exhibition of the project “Fifties in Europe Kaleidoscope” in cooperation with Institut für Museumsforschung – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The 1950s was a decade of transition and (re)construction, modernisation and change in Europe. This change was fundamental and reached all Europeans* who, after years of the Second World War, longed for a normality of everyday life with new designs, new consumer goods, new media, music and fashion. Glamour, “home sweet home” and prosperity – these are familiar stereotypes that shape the myth of an iconic age. Blumenfest, 1953, © Olof Bellander / Malmö Museer / CC BY But this is only one side of the coin. This era was marked by contradictions: many in Europe were still suffering from the consequences of the Second World War, such as hunger, poverty, housing shortages and displacement. On the one hand, there was rapprochement and cooperation between formerly hostile nations, but on the other hand, interstate relations were determined by hegemonic foreign policy […]
Winter holiday programme 2020 of the National Museums in Berlin | 01.02.-09.02.2020
During the winter holidays 2020 (01.02.-09.02.2020) the National Museums in Berlin (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) offer a varied programme for children, young people and families. In three-day workshops, children and young people explore the museums together and become creatively active. In addition, one-day workshops and exhibition talks will take place on the weekends. Please note that the program was published by the National Museums in Berlin in German only. DREITÄGIGE WORKSHOPS Für alle Workshops ist die Teilnehmerzahl begrenzt. Eine Anmeldung bis drei Tage vor Veranstaltungsbeginn ist erforderlich über die Website www.smb.museum oder per Email an service@smb.museum. Bitte beachten Sie die Altersangaben. Es wird ein Teilnahmebeitrag erhoben. Der Eintritt in die Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin ist für Kinder und Jugendliche bis zum 18. Lebensjahr kostenfrei. Museumsinsel Berlin, Neues Museum Malerei und Farbe der Steinzeit Mo – Mi / 10 – 13 Uhr / 3. – 5.2.2020 (dreitägig) Mammuts, Löwen, Pferde und fantastische Mischwesen aus Mensch und Tier zierten in der Steinzeit die Wände von Höhlen. Die Bilder scheinen sich bei Lichteinfall zu bewegen, denn sie sind mit einer besonderen Farbmischung gemalt. Warum bemalten unsere Vorfahren Höhlen? Du erforscht die Bedeutung der Malerei der Steinzeit und wirst selbst kreativ. Du mischst […]
Jussuf Abbo | Kunsthaus Dahlem | 08.11.2019-20.01.2020
until 20.01. | #2632ARTatBerlin | Kunsthaus Dahlem currently shows an exhibition with artworks by the sculpteur Jussuf Abbo. The sensitively modelled female heads by the sculptor Jussuf Abbo inspired the Berlin art scene of the Golden Twenties. Abbo participated in the progressive movements of his time and was a close friend of Else Lasker-Schüler and Kurt Schwitters. With the Nazi takeover, Abbo was repeatedly branded – he was stateless after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, exposed by his Jewish ancestry to Nazi racial fanaticism and his girlfriend Ruth Schulz was illegitimately pregnant by him. In a dramatic way, the pair fled to England in 1935, where Abbo could not continue his career. On the occasion of the release of the first monograph on the life and work of the artist, Kunsthaus Dahlem dedicates a solo exhibition to Jussuf Abbo with about 40 works on paper and sculptures. The exhibition is supported by the Mehler family and Freundeskreis Kunsthaus Dahlem – Bernhard Heiliger e.V. In cooperation with Centrum Judaicum, Berlin, and Aktives Museum Faschismus und Widerstand e.V., Berlin and Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen. JUSSUF ABBO, Frauenkopf, 1928, Zinn Nachlass Jussuf Abbo, Brighton/England, Foto: Gunter Lepkowski THE ARTIST: LIFE AND WORK Abbo was […]
Hansjörg Mayer | Typoems und Künstlerbücher | Kulturforum – Kunstbibliothek | 25.10.-12.01.2019
From 25 October 2019, the Kunstbibliothek im Kulturforum will be showing the exhibition “Typoems und Künstlerbücher” with works by printer and publisher Hansjörg Mayer. The printer, teacher and publisher Hansjörg Mayer, who lives in London, became one of the most important protagonists of concrete poetry and the art of the 1960s with his experiments in printing techniques and his edition hansjörg mayer. In collaboration with the artist, the Art Library shows the diversity and artistic stubbornness of the publishing house, from his first typographic works, which he called typoems, to the international influence of Concrete Poetry from Stuttgart to São Paolo, to the experimental artist’s books by Dieter Roth. Dieter Roth, Bücher und Grafik Gesammelte Werke 20, 1970, edition hansjörg mayer, Offsetdruck, © edition hansjörg mayer; Dieter Roth Foundation, Hamburg As early as the mid-1960s, Hansjörg Mayer (*1943, Stuttgart) attracted the attention of the art and literature world. As a young man, Mayer had already come into contact with the Stuttgart circle around the philosopher Max Bense, who introduced him to the latest international trends in art, literature and music. Mayer’s fascination with the printing process, which he experienced every day in his family’s print shop, gave rise to the […]
Cevdet Erek | Bergama Stereo | Hamburger Bahnhof | 18.10.2019-08.03.2020
The Museum Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin shows from 18th October 2019 as a part of the series “Musikwerke Bildender Künstler (>Works of music by visual artists)” the exhibition Bergama Stereo by the artist Cevdet Erek. In the architecture and sound installation “Bergama Stereo”, the Istanbul-based artist and musician Cevdet Erek refers to the form, content and reception history of the Pergamon Altar in Berlin and creates a new interpretation of this important Hellenistic building. In August and September 2019, the installation will be shown at the Ruhrtriennale in Bochum before moving to the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin in October. The exhibition in Berlin celebrates the 20th anniversary of “Musikwerke Bildender Künstler” and is accompanied by a concert and performance programme. Bergama is the Turkish name for ancient Pergamon as well as for today’s city and district in Asia Minor. The famous giant frieze of the altar is interpreted in a multi-channel composition that sounds the room. Here the sound plays the central role in creating an architecture that the visitors* can hear as they move through the room. “Bergama Stereo” (2019) is a site-specific work and is conceived for two locations that […]
Pablo Picasso x Thomas Scheibitz. Zeichen Bühne Lexikon | Museum Berggruen | 14.09.2019–02.02.2020
The Museum Bergguen shows from 14th September 2019 the exhibition Pablo Picasso x Thomas Scheibitz. Zeichen Bühne Lexikon as a juxtaposition of works by both artists. Hardly any other contemporary artist works so multi-layered with set pieces and references from everyday life and art history as Thomas Scheibitz (*1968, Radeberg). His dense paintings and shadowy sculptures can be understood as free montages of reality. They appear as complex image or object memories in which the visual culture of life has inscribed itself, strongly condensed formally by the artist. The influence of Pablo Picasso and Cubism is unmistakable. With this exhibition, the Museum Berggruen, dedicated to Picasso’s art and his time, draws an arc from Classical Modernism to contemporary art. With about 45 works, it becomes clear that Picasso and Scheibitz do not share the same motifs, but a similar artistic attitude. Both see their work as an open process that constantly leads to new variants and updates of the solutions already found. Nothing remains static here. Both artists simultaneously adhere to the fundamental idea of image and sculpture. The exhibition is conceived as a direct juxtaposition of “Picasso – Scheibitz” and an open parcours through the Berggruen Museum. Pablo Picasso, […]
Emil Nolde | A German Legend – The Artist in National Socialism | Hamburger Bahnhof | until 15.09.2019
Until mid-September 2019, the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum is showing the exhibition “Emil Nolde. Eine deutsche Legende – Der Künstler im Nationalsozialismus” (> Emil Nolde. A German Legend – The Artist in National Socialism). The Expressionist Emil Nolde is probably the most famous ‘degenerate artist’: no other artist confiscated so many works, no other works hung so prominently on the first stages of the exhibition Degenerate Art of 1937/38. How do Nolde’s ostracism and his professional ban fit in with our knowledge that he was a member of the Nazi party and did not lose faith in the National Socialist regime until the end of the war? The art critic Adolf Behne took Nolde’s special case seriously by trenchantly calling him a “degenerate ‘degenerate’” on his 80th birthday in 1947. Emil Nolde in Munich, January/February 1937. Photo by Helga Fietz, the wife of Nolde’s art dealer in Munich Günther Franke, Nolde Stiftung Seebüll, © Nolde Stiftung Seebüll It has long been known that Emil Nolde was a party member. But what this has to do with his art, and how the historical circumstances of National Socialism have affected his work, has never before been comprehensively examined in an exhibition. The exhibition […]
Gustave Caillebotte | Alte Nationalgalerie | 17.05.-15.09.2019
The Alte Nationalgalerie currently presents the French painter and patron of the Impressionists Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894). The exhibition shows his pioneering work “Rue de Paris, temps de pluie”, completed in 1877 and on show for the first time in Berlin. Gustave Caillebotte was one of the central protagonists of French Impressionism and yet he is still one of those artists to be discovered today. His fame was initially based on his role as a patron of the arts, but it was only late on that he gained full recognition as a painter. With Caillebotte’s painting “Street in Paris, Rainy Weather” (“Rue de Paris, temps de pluie”), completed in 1877, an Impressionist icon moved into the Alte Nationalgalerie. It is regarded as the artist’s major work and is one of the flagships of the Art Institute of Chicago. The monumental painting has seldom travelled to Europe, and Berlin is the first city to see it. The fact that “Street in Paris, Rainy Weather” is now being shown here can be described as a sensation and is based on a unique international cooperation: while the Art Institute of Chicago has borrowed Edouard Manet’s “In the Winter Garden” for a large monographic exhibition, […]
Escape into the pictures? The Artists of the Brücke in National Socialism | Kunsthaus Dahlem | 14.04.-11.08.2019
until 11.08. | Kunsthaus Dahlem is currently presenting the exhibition “Flucht in die Bilder? Die Künstler der Brücke im Nationalsozialismus (> Escape into the Pictures?) The Artists of the Brücke in National Socialism” in cooperation with the Brücke Museum. The exhibition “Flucht in die Bilder?” is the first to critically and extensively examine the artistic practice, scope of action and everyday life of the former Brücke artists under National Socialism. The situation of Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Pechstein, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in the years 1933 to 1945 has so far mostly been reduced to ‘ostracism’ of their art by the National Socialists. This one-dimensional view does neither do justice to the multi-layered situation of the artists nor to the contradictions within National Socialist cultural policy. At the beginning, most of the former Brücke artists had cherished the hope that their art would find recognition among the National Socialists – a hope that the latter had partially nurtured. Despite the caesura caused by the Nazi art policy, the former Brücke artists – with the exception of Kirchner, who took his own life in 1938 – were artistically active until the last years of the war. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, »Entwurzelte Bäume«, […]
Event Highlights April + May 2019 | Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin
In April and May 2019, in addition to the current exhibition programme, the Hamburger Bahnhof will be hosting a varied programme of events with discussions with experts, guided tours for artists and workshops. Every first Thursday of the month, admission is free as part of the VOLKSWAGEN ART4ALL initiative from 4 pm to 8 pm. Do 4.04.2019, 18 Uhr Alle Pigmente verkörpern Wahrheit. Lesung zu Jack Whitten Accompanying his painterly work, Jack Whitten has written numerous texts in which he has dealt with artistic as well as socio-political questions. In a reading, notes from his studio diary and essays will be read in the English original and their German translation. The selection opens up personal insights into the painter’s thinking and self-image, who understood abstraction as an essential access to reality. An event as part of VOLKSWAGEN ART4ALL, free admission to all exhibitions from 4 pm to 8 pm. Sa 13.04.2019, 14 Uhr „Vogel-Späti“. Workshop mit Olivier Guesselé-Garai & Tamás Kaszás Olivier Guesselé-Garai and Tamás Kaszás, of whom works can be seen in the exhibition “How to talk with birds, trees, fish, shells, snakes, bulls and lions”, deal in their artistic practice with the relationship of man and artist […]
In bester Gesellschaft | Selected Acquisitions 2009–2019 | Kupferstichkabinett | 13.04.-04.08.2019
until 04.08. | Kupferstichkabinett shows from 13. April 2019 the exhibition “In bester Gesellschaft” with selected acquisitions of the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett from the years 2009 to 2019. “In bester Gesellschaft” (> In best company) illustrates the way in which the collection of the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett has grown over the last ten years with around 60 of the most beautiful and interesting new acquisitions. The diverse selection ranges from the Middle Ages to the present day and includes works on paper by artists as diverse as Hans Holbein the Elder, Adolph Menzel, Max Slevogt, Yves Tanguy, Georg Baselitz, Monica Bonvicini and Katharina Grosse. Last but not least, the exhibition also shows the central importance of private and public sponsors, patrons and foundations, without whose significant commitment this significant increase would not have been possible. Although one focus of the exhibition is on contemporary art on paper, the chronologically structured show also presents many works of European art history from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. The exhibition will not only show – spread over the duration of the exhibition – individual pages of the important early modern set of drawings in the “Kleines Klebeband der Fürsten zu Waldburg-Wolfegg”, but also […]
Ilna Ewers-Wunderwald | Bröhan-Museum Blackbox #6 | 28.02.-16.06.2019
until 16.06. | Since 28 February 2019, the Bröhan Museum has been showing the exhibition “Ilna Ewers-Wunderwald. Rediscovery of an Art Nouveau Artist” Blackbox #6. Ilna Ewers-Wunderwald (1875-1957) was a true Art Nouveau icon. Before the First World War, the myth-loving artist was celebrated by art critics, but then fell into oblivion for more than 100 years. Her work is characterized by eroticism and fantasy, a fairy-tale cosmos of water creatures and birds of paradise, dazzling flowers and grotesque mythical creatures. It is thanks to the commitment of private collectors that large parts of Ilna Ewers-Wunderwald’s artistic legacy are now available for an exhibition. With this first exhibition, the Bröhan Museum would like to make a contribution to the rediscovery of the artist. Ilna Ewers-Wunderwald at Capri, Photography around 1903 Heinrich-Heine-Institut, Düsseldorf In the Wilhelmine Society the cultural scene was dominated by men, the female sex was even denied the opportunity to study art. It is all the more astonishing that the autodidact Ilna Ewers-Wunderwald successfully took part in important exhibitions such as the Berlin and Munich Secession or the Great Berlin Art Exhibition. The artist received public admiration and recognition not only for her paintings, but also for her […]
ZERO [+1] – EARLY WORKS BY HAL BUSSE | Kunsthaus Dahlem | 18.01.-08.04.2019
until 08.04. | Kunsthaus Dahlem currently shows the exhibition ZERO [+1] – Early Works by Hal Busse. Hal Busse (actually Hannelore Bendixen-Busse) is one of the few women artists who belong to the artistic avant-garde of postwar modernism. Committed primarily to painting in the 1950s, she appears at the end of the decade with sculptural works, nail paintings, surface reliefs and cube progressions. She exhibits together with Otto Piene and Heinz Mack with the artist group ZERO, but is also represented in exhibitions by the artists’ associations Junger Westen and Gruppe 53. In doing so, she is part of those artistic circles which sought to liberate the art of the postwar period from its questionable legacy and set a new beginning in abstraction and non-objectivity. Hal Busse in ihrem Atelier in der Rosenstraße, Stuttgart, um 1959, Fotograf: Anton Stankowski Hal Busse was born in 1926 as the daughter of the landscape painter Hermann Busse in Jagstfeld in southern Germany. At the age of twenty she began her studies at the State Academy of the Arts in Stuttgart, which she completed in 1953 as a master student of Manfred Henninger. During her studies she attended several correction sessions by Willi Baumeister, probably […]
Tatjana Schülke | INSIDE OUT | Kunsthaus Dahlem | 18.01.-08.04.2019
until 08.04. | Kunsthaus Dahlem currently shows the exhibition INSIDE OUT with sculptures, wall objects and reliefs by the artist Tatjana Schülke. Spatial compositions and sculptural works characterize the artistic work of Tatjana Schülke. The focus is on the material as a means of expression and its haptic and visual experience for the viewer. Removed from an original usage assignment Schülke dedicates work materials such as nails, tubes or building materials and allows new interpretations of their meanings. Associatively, the observer can approach the sculptural object and indulge in sensually tactile stimuli. The result of Schülke’s engagement with material, form and surface are finely composed sculptural objects. TATJANA SCHÜLKE, limited, 2015, Styrodur, Metall, Holz, Pigmente, 57 x 57 x 57 cm The exhibition “Inside Out” shows 15 recent works, including hang out, limited and start up. The works illustrate the artist’s joy in experimenting in different ways. In addition to the relationship between material, form and surface, the tension between internal and external effects is elementary. Due to the alienated materials, the sculptural structures have an effect of their own into the space. Deepenings such as the Urkugel II or Undercover provide insights into an inner life, which, however, keep the […]
From Arts and Crafts to the Bauhaus | Bröhan Museum | 25.01.-05.05.2019
With the subtitle “Art and Design – A New Unity” the Bröhan-Museum is showing the exhibition “From Arts and Crafts to the Bauhaus” from 24 January 2019. Many fairy tales and myths entwine around the Bauhaus. Terms such as “Bauhaus style” or “The Bauhaus idea” have become commonplace. The Bauhaus itself became a myth, an icon of modernity. Mistakenly, it is both made the climax of modernity and misunderstood as the starting point of modernity. The exhibition “From Arts and Crafts to the Bauhaus. Kunst und Design – eine neue Einheit! wants to clear up many of these myths and make a contribution to a design historical classification of the Bauhaus as part of the anniversary programme “100 years of bauhaus”. How free may the form be? How much consideration must it give to its function? Is design art? And should designers work more closely with craftsmen or industry? Does modernity need a style? These questions, which today are immediately associated with the Bauhaus, were developed 50 years earlier in the English Arts and Crafts movement. The ideas and concepts of the Bauhaus and its design language are not strokes of genius without precursors. After the end of the First […]
Christmas at MEK 2018 | Museum of European Cultures | 01.12.-06.01.2019
Since the first weekend of Advent, the Museum of European Cultures (MEK) in Berlin-Dahlem has been preparing young and old for this year’s Christmas season with a diverse programme of exhibitions and events. In its collection, the MEK keeps numerous outstanding Christmas objects. In addition to the mechanical Christmas mountain from the Erzgebirge mountains, which can be admired throughout the year in the permanent collection presentation, the MEK’s current special exhibition focuses on stars: “Stars – not only at Christmas time” is dedicated to the star as a celestial body, as a mathematical figure, as a religious symbol and as an ornament. The exhibition illuminates well-known poinsettias such as the Herrnhuter star or the Sebnitzer star and explains their production and backgrounds. A “Star Path” as a signpost links the exhibition with objects in the collection presentation. Mechanischer Weihnachtsberg, Detail, Erzgebirge, um 1885, © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum Europäischer Kulturen / David von Becker In its collection, the MEK keeps numerous outstanding Christmas objects. In addition to the mechanical Christmas mountain from the Erzgebirge mountains, which can be admired throughout the year in the permanent collection presentation, the MEK’s current special exhibition focuses on stars: “Stars – not only […]
SEEN BY #11: CAREFUL UNREST | Museum für Fotografie | 23.11.2018-13.01.2019
From 23 November 2018, the Museum für Fotografie (Museum of Photography) is showing the exhibition SEEN BY #11: CAREFUL UNREST, a special exhibition of the Kunstbibliothek – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Members and students of the Universität der Künste Berlin receive free admission to the special exhibition. “SEEN BY #11: CAREFUL UNREST” is the eleventh part of the exhibition cooperation between the Kunstbibliothek – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Universität der Künste Berlin at the Museum für Fotografie. Its aim is to rethink curatorial and artistic strategies in dealing with contemporary photography. Fee Hollmig, Ohne Titel, 2018, © Fee Hollmig “CAREFUL UNREST” takes this year’s anniversary of the November Revolution as an opportunity to ask about contemporary aesthetics of rebellion: How can struggles for social participation be represented today? Who or what are the revolutionary subjects and how can they be (re)activated? Annkathrin Kluss & Florian Mehmeti Löffler, Souvenirs of Pasts, 2018, © Annkathrin Kluss & Florian Mehmeti Löffler According to Bini Adamczak, coming uprisings should start from our ways of relating, revolution should not be thought exclusively from bottom to top, but should be concentrated on an in-between and togetherness. The artists in the exhibition question activists, play with […]
Mario Testino. Undressed / Helmut Newton. Unseen / Jean Pigozzi. Pool Party | Museum für Fotografie | 03.06.–19.11.2017
until 19.11. | The Helmut Newton Foundation at Museum für Fotografie presents from 3rd June 2017 the new exhibition „Mario Testino. Undressed / Helmut Newton. Unseen / Jean Pigozzi. Pool Party”. Upon establishing his foundation in Berlin in 2003, Helmut Newton expressed his wish to provide a forum not only for his own works, but for that of other photographers as well. His wish continues to be fulfilled posthumously, now with two unique projects by two of Helmut Newton’s friends and colleagues. Undressed by Mario Testino is a site-specific installation comprising fashion and nude photos, with numerous unpublished studio portraits. Meanwhile, Pool Party by Jean Pigozzi is presented in June’s Room. This installation features small-format, snapshot-like images taken around Pigozzi’s swimming pool in Cap d’Antibes, where Helmut and June Newton, among other A-listers, came to unwind or frolic in glamour. Jean Pigozzi, a photographer, art collector, and international businessman, was previously featured at the Helmut Newton Foundation with his portraits and selfportraits in the Paparazzi group exhibition in 2008. Here once again, we encounter spontaneous, surprising, and very private images of Pigozzi’s friends, united around the pool at Villa Dorane, which was built for his father Henri in 1953 by Ettore Sottsass. […]
In neuem Licht. Werke in der Wandelhalle | Gemäldegalerie Kulturforum | 17.05.2017–End 2018
until end 2018 | Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin presents from 17th May 2017 over 70 never or seldom shown works. The gallery just provided a German exhibition description by now. For details please change to the german version of ART@Berlin. It is really easy: Just press the language button in the upper right corner. In an instant you will be forwarded to the article in German language. Bis gleich! Exhibition period: Wednesday, 17th May 2017 to the end of 2018 [maxbutton id=”92″] Image caption: Giovanni Paolo Panini, Die Ausfahrt des Duc de Choiseul auf dem Petersplatz in Rom, 1754, Öl auf Leinwand, 97 x 135 cm, © bpk / Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Jörg P. Anders Exhibitions Berlin Museums: In neuem Licht. Werke in der Wandelhalle – Gemäldegalerie Kulturforum | ART at Berlin
Der Reiz des Kleinen. Naturstudien in Hollands Goldenem Jahrhundert | Gemäldegalerie Kulturforum | 21.03.–25.06.2017
until 25.06. | Gemäldegalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin presents from 21th March 2017 the special exhibition “Der Reiz des Kleinen. Naturstudien in Hollands Goldenem Jahrhundert”. The gallery just provided a German exhibition description by now. For details please change to the german version of ART@Berlin. It is really easy: Just press the language button in the upper right corner. In an instant you will be forwarded to the article in German language. Bis gleich! Exhibition period: Tuesday, 21th March to Sunday, 25th June 2017 [maxbutton id=”92″] Image caption: Herman Saftleven, Drei Ranunkelpflanzen, Aquarell, 1683 © Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Volker-H. Schneider Exhibitions Berlin museums: Gemäldegalerie | ART at Berlin
moving is in every direction. Environments – Installationen – Narrative Räume | Hamburger Bahnhof | 17.03.–17.09.2017
until 17.09. | Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin presents from 17th March 2017 the group exhibition “moving is in every direction. Environments – Installationen – Narrative Räume”. The exhibition “moving is in every direction. Environments – Installations – Narrative Spaces” traces the history of installation art from the 1960s until today with a focus on narrative structures. As the visitors move through the exhibition, they explore expansive walk-in environments, video and sound installations, as well as cross-media works especially developed for the exhibition. The non-linear narrative structure, put forth by Gertrude Stein, to which the exhibition title relates, serves as a starting point for exploring sculptural arrangements, image sequences, or spatially staged narratives. Within the approximately 3,500 square metres of exhibition space, there are installations by Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Isa Genzken/Wolfgang Tillmans, Bruce Nauman, Susan Philipsz, Pipilotti Rist, Bunny Rogers, Gregor Schneider, Thomas Schütte, and Wolf Vostell. The exhibition moves historically from the ‘environments’ introduced by Allan Kaprow in 1958, through Dan Flavin’s ‘situations’ or Wolf Vostell’s ‘spaces’ of the 1960s and 1970s up to the ‘installation art’, established in the 1980s. This term has remained in use up until the present. ‘Installation’ stands for […]
ğ – das weiche g. Queere Formen migrieren | Schwules Museum* | 03.03.–29.05.2017
until 29.05. | Schwules Museum presents from 3rd March 2017 the group exhibition “ğ – das weiche g. Queere Formen migrieren”. The group exhibition “ğ – the soft g” at Schwules Museum* brings together works that follow artistic migration in various directions and explore the transcultural exchange of LGBTIQ* people between Turkey and Germany, Berlin and Istanbul for the first time in Germany. This Berlin queer migrant state of mind is illustrated by Emre Busse and Aykan Safoğlu by the Turkish letter ğ, or “the soft g” in English. Busse and Safoğlu are from Istanbul, both interested in queer migration, marginalized sexual identities and body politics in their artistic and curatorial practices. The letter ğ was added to the Turkish alphabet in 1928 when the Latin alphabet was adapted through the Turkish language reforms. ğ stands in for the Arabic letter ghayn, which has no equivalent in the Latin alphabet, but was commonly used in the Ottoman language. The only purpose of this unprecedented hybrid form is to lengthen the preceding vowel. Therefore, it cannot be the initial letter of a word and is never capitalized. “ğ is an oriental sound-letter that migrated to a western body of sorts,” the curators state. What […]
Schriftbilder – Bilderschrift. Chinesisches Plakat- und Buchdesign heute | Kulturforum, Kunstbibliothek | 03.03.–28.05.2017
until 28.05. | Staatliche Museen zu Berlin shows from 3rd March in Kunstbibliothek of Kulturforum the special exhibition “Schriftbilder – Bilderschrift. Chinesisches Plakat- und Buchdesign heute”. The gallery just provided a German exhibition description by now. For details please change to the german version of ART@Berlin. It is really easy: Just press the language button in the upper right corner. In an instant you will be forwarded to the article in German language. Bis gleich! Vernissage: Thursday, 02nd March 2017, 7 p.m. Exhibition period: Friday, 03rd March to Sunday, 28th May 2017 [maxbutton id=”151″ ] Image caption: Yiyang HeiX Exhibition, 2007. Beijing, ChinaOffset, 54,5 x 78,5 cm© Yiyang Hei, 2016 | Photo: hesign, Berlin Schriftbilder – Bilderschrift. Chinesisches Plakat- und Buchdesign heute – Kulturforum, Kunstbibliothek – Kunst in Berlin ART at Berlin
Im Netzwerk der Berliner Moderne | Georg Kolbe Museum | 22.01.-01.05.2017
until 01.05. | Das Georg Kolbe Museum shows from 22th January 2017 the exhibition “Im Netzwerk der Berliner Moderne”. The gallery just provided a German exhibition description by now. For details please change to the german version of ART@Berlin. It is really easy: Just press the language button in the upper right corner. In an instant you will be forwarded to the article in German language. Bis gleich! For example with: Friedrich Ebert, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gret Palucca, Paul Cassirer, Walther Rathenau, Mechtilde Lichnowsky, Vaslav Nijinsky, Walter Gropius, Charlotte Bara, Henry van de Velde, Ernst Barlach, Renée Sintenis, Annette Kolb, Taka-Taka, Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Max Liebermann, Tamara Karsawina, Ludwig Derleth, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Hans Prinzhorn, Ferruccio Busoni, August Thyssen, Conrad Ansorge, Wilhelm R. Valentiner, Max Slevogt, Bruno Taut, Vera Skoronel, Harry Graf Kessler und Hans Poelzig. Exhibition period: Sunday, 22th January 2017 to Monday, first May 2017 [maxbutton id=”217″ ] Image caption: GKM Blick ins Bildhaueratelier C Bildarchiv Georg Kolbe Museum Foto Enric Duch Exhibition Im Netzwerk der Berliner Moderne – Georg Kolbe Museum – Kunst in Berlin ART at Berlin
Alexander Camaro + Bernhard Heiliger | Bespielbare Skulptur | Kunsthaus Dahlem | 13.01.–27.03.2017
until 27.03. | Kunsthaus Dahlem presents from 13th January 2017 the set decoration for Faust II by the artists Alexander Camaro and Bernhard Heiliger. The gallery just provided a German exhibition description by now. For details please change to the german version of ART@Berlin. It is really easy: Just press the language button in the upper right corner. In an instant you will be forwarded to the article in German language. Bis gleich! Lecture: Tuesday, 14th February 2017, 7 p.m. Exhibition period: Friday, 13th January to Monday, 27th March 2017 [maxbutton id=”184″ ] Image caption: Bernhard Heiliger, Kaiserliche Pfalz, Lithografie, 1967, Foto: Kunsthaus Dahlem Exhibition Alexander Camaro + Bernhard Heiliger – Kunsthaus Dahlem – Kunst in Berlin ART at Berlin
Peter Cook | Retrospektive | Tchoban Foundation. Museum for Architectual Drawing | 30.10.2016-12.02.2017
until 12.02. | #0840ARTatBerlin | Tchoban Foundation. Museum for Architectual Drawing shows from 30th October 2016 the exhibition Retrospektive by the architect Peter Cook. The new temporary exhibition, Peter Cook. Retrospective is dedicated to the drawings of the famous British architect who is celebrating his 80th birthday this year. Back in 1982, the Aedes Architecture Forum, then located in the Savigny Platz arches, showed a fantastic exhibition of his work; now, almost 40 years on, Peter Cook returns to Berlin. Peter Cook. Retrospective enables a view into the artist’s work from Archigram to CRAB, from 1968 to today, from Plug-In City to Hidden City. Peter Cook is regarded as one of the leading instigators of Archigram. This group whose name originated from the architectural pamphlet, Archigram – a wordplay on architecture and telegram – was founded in the 1960s by young British architecture graduates who strove to break away from traditional architectural office routine and continue the discourse stimulated during their studies. The given notions of form and space were to be overridden and burst apart, driven by the curiosity to explore what a future world may look like and question whether architectural language is at all set by boundaries. Archigram searched for new solutions and concept models, focussing on the […]
Portrait Berlin | Kunsthaus Dahlem | 12.06.2015-18.06.2017
until 18.06. | #0810ARTatBerlin | Kunsthaus Dahlem shows since the 12. June 2015 the exhibition “Portrait Berlin” with artistic positions of the post-war modernism in Berlin between 1945 and 1955. The gallery just provided a German exhibition description by now. For details please change to the german version of ART@Berlin. It is really easy: Just press the language button in the upper right corner. In an instant you will be forwarded to the article in German language. Bis gleich! Exhibition period: Friday, 12. June 2015 – Saturday, 18. June 2017 [maxbutton id=”184″] Image caption: Innenansicht Kunsthaus Dahlem, Foto: D.Schöne, 2016 Exhibition Portrait Berlin – Kunsthaus Dahlem – Art in Berlin ART at Berlin
Prologue | Kunsthaus Dahlem | 09.09.2016-09.01.2017
until 09.01. | #0720AB | Kunsthaus Dahlem shows from 09. September 2016 the exhibition Prologue about Prologue-Group in the 1940s. The exhibition Prologue re-introduces a group of art lovers and artists, who got initiated a supporting group in Berlin-Dahlem in autumn of 1946. Prologue was a network, whose members consisted of members of the American Military Administration as well as German artists, art historians and curators. Today, the group and their activities is almost forgotten, but back in the late 1940s, it belonged to the most influential supporters of arts and culture in the Western sectors of the city. With mostly unknown documentary photography and art works from the founding years, the exhibition re-visits this pivotal chapter of postwar Berlin art. Vernissage: Thursday, 08. September 2016, 17:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Friday, 09.09.2016 – Monday, 09.01.2017 [maxbutton id=”184″] Image caption: Hans Thiemann: Der 4er-Maler, 1942, Privatbesitz Exhibition Prologue – Kunsthaus Dahlem – Art in Berlin ART at Berlin
ANIME ARCHITECTURE | Tchoban Foundation | 23.07.-16.10.2016
until 16.10. | #0609ARTatBerlin | Tchoban Foundation – Museum for Architectural Drawings shows from 23rd July 2016 the exhibition ANIME ARCHITECTUR. The new temporary exhibition at the Museum of Architectural Drawing in Berlin shows original drawings from renowned Japanese animation films. Since the films Akira (1988) and Ghost in the Shell (1995), Japanese anime has secured its place in international pop culture, attracting a growing public in Germany. The show focuses on a selection of superb renderings of urban architecture made for the screen. In drawings for the films Patlabor (1989), Ghost in the Shell (1995) and Ghost in the Shell 2 – Innocence (2004), the megalopolis skyline is seen to be crushing in on what remains of traditional wooden housing. Industrial sites with endless labyrinths of cables and piping and utopian science-fiction constructions form backdrops for the dynamic film plots. The exhibition presents works by Hiromasa Ogura (art director), Mamoru Oshii (director), Atsushi Takeuchi (layout) and Takashi Watabe (layout). These artists belong to a generation of illustrators who drew animation films almost only by hand. Although today computer graphics are additionally used across all areas of production, paper, pencil and brush remain their essential tools. Thanks to their artistic craftsmanship, the works are finished with an intricate attention to detail and high quality drafting. […]
We’re off then | Travel Pictures from Albrecht Dürer to Olafur Eliasson | Kupferstichkabinett | 18.03.-25.09.2016
until 25.09. | #0540ARTatBerlin | The museum Kupferstichkabinett close to Potsdamer Platz shows as summer exhibition “We’re off then. Travel Pictures from Albrecht Dürer to Olafur Eliasson”. Everyone is on a journey. Travelling, being on the road, mobility – all have been integral themes since the dawn of humanity. In its 2016 summer exhibition, Berlin’s Kupferstichkabinett is showing the most beautiful, seductive and curious travel pictures from over five centuries. The arc spans from gorgeously illustrated books from the Age of Discovery around the year 1500, via the art spawned by Humboldt’s travels, the enigmatic paradises of Paul Gauguin and Nolde’s deeply sceptical South Sea watercolours, right through to Ed Ruscha’s 1960s gas station in middle-ofnowhere America and Franz Ackermann’s “mental maps”. The theme of travel and art on paper are intricately connected – for the travel picture is based on mobile media. It is with notations in sketchbooks, drawings, watercolours and oil sketches that artists have swept us away to new, foreign worlds. It is precisely in the sanguine and pen-andink drawings, in the enchanting coloration of many sheets and the most diverse graphic techniques that the authenticity, mobility and spontaneity of travelling art is made directly visible, enabling us […]
Heidi Specker | IN FRONT OF | Photographs 2005/2015 | Berlinische Galerie | 11.03.-11.07.2016
bis 11.07. | #0437ARTatBerlin | Heidi Specker is a leading protagonist of contemporary photography. The exhibition at the Berlinische Galerie is her biggest solo show in a museum to date. The exhibition IN FRONT OF shows two very different groups of work by the Berlin photographer Heidi Specker: her latest project IN FRONT OF, and probably her most significant work to date IN THE GARDEN, which won her a bursary at the Villa Massimo in Rome and has never yet been exhibited in its entirety. IN FRONT OF is a series of 70 pictures where Heidi Specker explores the framework and detailed circumstances in which portrait photographs are created. The series was made specifically for this exhibition at the Berlinische Galerie, and it is her first venture into portraits. For this purpose, she withdrew from the urban environment where she usually goes about her work and brought the world inside her studio. It became a kind of laboratory, where she tested the options for taking a person’s picture. This procedure is quite unlike conventional practice, shaped ever since photography was born by the sitter’s desire to project an image and a status. Instead, these pictures convey the mutual dependence and […]
Julian Rosefeldt | Manifesto | Hamburger Bahnhof | 10.02.-10.07.2016
until 10.07. | #0429ARTatBerlin | From February 10 to July 10, 2016, Nationalgalerie will present a solo show by Berlin based artist Julian Rosefeldt (b. 1965) at Hamburger Bahnhof. Rosefeldt is renowned not only for his photography but also for his elaborately staged films. The longing for manifestos continues uninterrupted today. This is shown by Rosefeldt’s new film installation Manifesto: 13 films running in parallel bring angry, youthful, and amazingly current sounding words to the screen. In fact, Rosefeldt collaged historical original texts from numerous manifestos by artists, architects, choreographers, and filmmakers—including texts by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Tristan Tzara, Kazimir Malevich, André Breton, Claes Oldenburg, Yvonne Reiner, Sturtevant, Adrian Piper, Sol LeWitt or Jim Jarmusch. Many of them reveal a surprisingly theatrical and literary power. The vitality and the fury of a young generation is inscribed in the thematic and performative energy of the proclamations. Rosefeldt has condensed this power in text collages. By way of cutting back and combining the texts of various figures, 13 poetic monologues emerged. Julian Rosefeldt combined them with his interest in the work and lifeworlds of the present, bringing the new manifesto texts in this work together with situations of today, with women holding […]
MIRROR IMAGES in Art and Medicine | Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charité | 13.11.2015-03.04.2016
until 03.04. | #0217ARTatBerlin | Group exhibition MIRROR IMAGES in Art and Medicine at Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charité (Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité) from 13th November 2015. Mirrors expand our sense of reality and allow us to observe our own bodies. Whereas we can be seen by all other persons directly, reflection provides the only possible view of ourselves: when we are mirrored, photographed, filmed or portrayed. The exhibition “MIRROR IMAGES in Art and Medicine” will combine artistic works with scientific experiments and objects, all of them investigating the manner in which we experience our own bodies in space. Starting in November 2015 the exhibition will be on view in Berlin at the Museum of Medical History at the Charité and in the Project Space of the Ernst Schering Foundation. The mirror stands for the separation and connection between subject and object as well as between the worlds of the physical and the virtual. A look into the mirror confronts us with the recognition “That other individual is I myself.” Neuroscientists describe this moment as disembodiment—the thought process in which we transcend our physical borders and project our physiognomy onto an external body. Typically the canvas of a […]
Dance of the Hands | Foto Exhibition | Das Verborgene Museum | 10.09.2015-31.01.2015
until 31.01. | #0210ARTatBerlin | Das Verborgene Museum, which means “The Hidden Museum” shows the Foto Exhibition “Dance of the Hands” (Tanz der Hände) from 10th September 2015 to 31st January 2016. The Dance of the Hands was created and shown by the dancers Tilly Losch (*1903 in Vienna, +1975 in New York) and Hedy Pfundmayr (*1899 in Vienna, +1965 in Vienna) during their performance at Salzburger Festspiele in the year 1927. Das Verborgene Museum stands for artworks by female artists, who fell into oblivion for different reasons. Exhibition period: Thursday, 10th September 2015 to Sunday, 31st January 2016 [maxbutton id=”94″] Dance of the Hands – Das Verbogene Museum – Exhibitions in Berlin ART@Berlin
The Botticelli Renaissance | Gemäldegalerie | 24.09.2015-24.01.2016
bis 24.01. | #0209ARTatBerlin | The exhibition “The Botticelli Renaissance” is presented from 24th September 2015 at Gemäldegalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and from 5th March 2016 to 3rd July 2016 at Victoria and Albert Museum, London. An exhibition in the Gemäldegalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – in partnership with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is considered one of the most important artists of the Renaissance. Countless reproductions have been made of his works, with some creators adding a slant or “modern touch”, resulting in a work that has acquired a momentum and trajectory in its own right. Many of these re-workings are so removed from the originals that Botticelli has become a household name and can be used as a touchstone for fashion and lifestyle without any mention being made of his paintings. Products are named after him, popular-culture personalities allude to his motifs in fashioning their own image, and some of the characters portrayed in his works – particularly his “Venus” – are now firmly embedded in collective awareness. Yet our apparent familiarity with his opus was not inevitable. Sandro Botticelli was largely forgotten after his death, only to be rediscovered around 1800. From the mid-19th century onwards the Pre-Raphaelite movement in England and the associated admiration […]
From Hockney to Holbein | The Würth Collection in Berlin | Martin-Gropius-Bau | 11.09.2015-10.01.2016
until 10.01. | #0211ARTatBerlin | From 11 September 2015, the Martin-Gropius-Bau will present the exhibition “From Hockney to Holbein. The Würth Collection in Berlin”. The Würth Collection is one of the largest private collections in Europe, containing around 17,000 works of art. The most important of the classic modern artists are represented, as well as masterpieces from the Middle Ages and classic works of contemporary art. The exhibition truly enriches ‘Kunstherbst Berlin’ i.e.‘Berlin’s Autumn of Art’, today known as the Berlin Art Week. With more than 400 works of art of international significance, the collection will be presented to the public in a scope never previously seen, in an exhibition space spread across 27 rooms of the Berlin based Martin-Gropius-Bau, one of the most reknowned exhibition halls in Europe. Analogously to the history of the Würth Collection, the exhibition delves from the present back into the history of art. Surprises are to be expected. Among the works on display are David Hockney’s season cycle, an international collection of sculptures by artists from Eduardo Chillida to Henry Moore, masterpieces of classical modernism from artists such as Pablo Picasso and Edvard Munch, breathtaking works of decorative art, and a selection of the Würth Collection’s Old Masters, including one of the most significant paintings of the 16th century, Hans Holbein […]
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