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Former West
For the project Former West, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt examined how contemporary arts reacted to the tidal changes of 1989 and the resulting transformation of the political and cultural landscape. The project began with the postulation that...
Formalism. Modern Art Today
Die Ausstellung im Hamburger Kunstverein untersucht das Verhältnis einer jüngeren Künstlergeneration zu formalen Fragestellungen. Welchen Stellenwert nehmen heute ästhetische Überlegungen im Zusammenhang gesellschaftsrelevanter Themen ein? Dem...
Certainty, Vision - Francke today
Around 1700 August Hermann Francke from the Prussian city of Halle/Saale initiated a reform project like no other in terms of its impact and international recognition. Francke’s progressive ideas regarding education and social welfare spread to...
Radiance of Glass
The interest in stained-glass painting has grown steadily ever since internationally acclaimed contemporary artists like Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Markus Lüpertz and Neo Rauch have designed their own church windows. For the very first time in...
Group Affinity
During the recent renovation of the Munich Kunstverein, workers discovered part of an old exhibition behind a wall which the association’s former director Reiner Kallhardt had created in 1970. Kallhardt had provided rooms for art academy students to...
Gillian Wearing
The Kunstsammlung NRW was hosting Germany’s first solo exhibition of Gillian Wearing’s broad spectrum of artistic works. Wearing, a member of the Young British Artists and winner of the Turner Prize in 1997, is known for her media-critical works...
A Closed Society
Imprisonment is a condition of extreme psychological and physical distress which has been the subject of many artworks in past years. The KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin presented an exhibition titled "A Closed Society" for which it...
Glück happens
The Städtische Galerie Erlangen was holding an exhibition titled GLÜCK happens [HAPPINESS happens] at the Palais Stutterheim, now named the “Kunstpalais”, to mark its grand re-opening after two years of renovation. The exhibition featured positions...
Crossing the Border
Das Problem der Identitätsfindung ist ein aktuelles Thema für Künstler aus osteuropäischen Ländern, in denen gesellschaftliche Umbrüche Neuorientierungen im Selbstverständnis erfordern. In Kooperation mit dem Budapester Museum Ludwig / Museum of...
Ha Kypopt! Russian Contemporary Art
Die Entwicklung der russischen Kunst geht in eine neue Phase. Nachdem Anfang der 90er Jahre die russische "Soz-Art" im Westen Furore machte, präsentierte die Kunsthalle Baden-Baden von Mai bis Juni 2004 die aktuellen Positionen russischer Kunst. Rund...
