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09/16/2023-01/07/2024
Opening Friday, September 15, 2023, 6 pm
The exhibition “Beyond Language” at the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur presents an overview of Abraham David Christian’s oeuvre in a concentrated presentation tailored to the specific premises.
In addition, individual works by the artist will be exhibited outdoors at selected locations in Graubünden. The exhibition was conceived and set up in close collaboration with the artist. It is accompanied by a publication with photographs by Gaudenz Signorell.
09/10/2023 – 02/04/2024
Opening Saturday, September 09, 2023, 7 pm
In the exhibition Deep Time – The Distant Sound, Jakob Mattner materialises light and illustrates the time of the creation of the world. At the opening on Saturday, 09 September, Rudolf Zwirner will give an introduction, the artist will be present.
09/09-09/24/2023, every Friday, Saturday and Sunday 5 to 7 pm
Kunst- und KulturWerkHaus ZIGARRE e.V. in Heilbronn presents an exhibition in three acts:
PLAY: Opening September 8, 2023, 8 pm in Sheddachsaal, Weststr. 28, with performance (Beni, Bianchet, Ullmann)
WORK: live woodcarving saturdays and sundays
FINISH: Sunday, September 24, 2023
08/20 – 10/15/2023
The exhibition “Angelika Platen · Verdopplungen“ at Museum der Fotografie, Görlitz e.V. is the first to focus on the stylistic device of doubling in Platen’s photographic work. In almost 60 works from five decades, Platen presents herself as a fascinating artist as well as an important chronicler of her time. Curated by Simon Häuser.
© Angelika Platen, Joseph Beuys, Hamburg 1968 „Rodins Reverenz“
Konrad Klapheck 1935 - 2023
It is with great sadness that we remember the painter Konrad Klapheck, who passed away on Sunday, July 30, 2023, at the age of 88. We express our deepest sympathy to his relatives.
Konrad Klapheck is one of the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century and the 21st century and is accredited worldwide.
The Chilean artist Sandra Vásquez de la Horra has been awarded the 2023 Käthe Kollwitz Prize. The exhibition on the occasion of the award will be on display at the Academy of Arts from June to August 2024.
June 24 until September 24, 2023
Motion of Love is Leiko Ikemura’s first institutional solo exhibition in the Netherlands and presents a body of work, which collectively reflects the artist’s engagement with material, poetry and notions of space. The exhibition at Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle brings together work from the 1980s to the present in varied materials: bronze, terracotta, glass, paintings, drawings, film and photography.
May 13 until September 24, 2023
Opening May 12, 2023, 7 pm
After the comprehensive group exhibition Wundersame Welten in the Galerie Michael Haas in 2019, the fantastic, wondrous and in any case exciting works by artists such as Eva Aeppli, Nader Ahriman, Marianna Gartner, Kerstin Grimm, Leiko Ikemura, John Isaacs, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz, René Magritte, Daniel Richter, Carolein Smit, Antoni Tápies, Jean Tinguely and others are exhibited in the museum in the Kleihues-Bau in Kornwestheim.
23.04.2023 until January 2024
In the exhibition TIMES, the WAI is presenting works by Vanessa Beecroft and Thomas Judisch, as well as large-format oil paintings by the Greek painter Dimitris Tzamouranis from his series “Mare Nostrum”, which, named with exact geographic coordinates, refer to places where refugees attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea sank and died.
11.03.-27.08.2023
Opening Friday, 10.03.2023, 7 pm
A selection of around 40 pieces of exceptional Chilean artist Sandra Vásquez de la Horra’s works are displayed in her first institutional solo exhibition Das archetypische Ich (The archetypical Self) in Berlin.
02.03.-22.04.2023
Opening Thursday, 01.03.2023, 6-8 pm
Fergus McCaffrey Gallery presents the New York debut of German painter Reinhard Pods in the exhibition Reinhard Pods: a Sort of Homecoming—Paintings 1979-2022, showing twelve large scale paintings created between 1979 and 2022.
Usagi double headed Hoshi, 2018 © Leiko Ikemura und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2022, Foto: Jörg von Bruchhausen
Leiko Ikemura at Georg Kolbe Museum
Opening Friday, 20 January 2023, 6 pm
Georg Kolbe Museum shows 30 sculptures and selected paintings from artist Leiko Ikemura in the Exhibition Witty Witches.
René Wirths • One Step Beyond
Book Launch and Artist Talk
Saturday, 15 October 2022, 4pm
René Wirths will present his new book publication ZEUG in an artist talk with Harald Theiss. Galerie Michael Haas cordially invites you to Niebuhrstr. 5.
Opening November 5, 2022
The exhibition ‘ A Gateway to Possible Worlds. Art & Science Fiction’ is part of a critical and socially committed science fiction that emerged on the fringes of the hippie protest movements and explores the flaws of our immediate future, using philosophical, psychological, political, societal and ecological themes
June 2022, Palau Nacional, Parc de Montjuïc, s/n, 08038 Barcelona
Shows Gino Rubert’s Vanity Fair (An Altar without a Hero) in room 24.
Reopening of the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille, Place de la République from 23 June 2022, 7 pm
On display will be, among others, the sculpture The Architecture of Empathy by the British artist John Isaacs
Dennis Scholl at Museum Modern Art Hünfeld
June 19 until September 18, 2022
With the exhibition “Das Reine, das Leichte und andere Erzählungen” (The Pure, the Light and Other Narratives), the Museum Modern Art in Hünfeld presents new works by the Berlin painter Dennis Scholl from 19 June to 18 September.
Exhibition June 29 – August 28, 2022
Opening Tuesday, June 28, 2022 at 7 pm
at the Osthaus Museum Hagen
May 14 to June 26, 2022
Opening May 13, 2022 at 6 pm
Destabilisation as an aesthetic principle: Frank Wiebe’s Landscapes in Dissolution
Angelika Platen has been photographing visual artists for more than 50 years. Parallel to her portraits of artists, she began early on to animate the artists into actions and performances. This results in a powerful series in which, for example, Dennis Oppenheim resists the mud on the Rhine with his hands and feet in 1969, or Gerhard Richter allows an unusual portrait of himself to be taken: eyes and ears are captured with the zoom, in and out of focus; the result is an intimate portrait entirely adapted to the artist’s working method.
The group exhibition “Points of Resistance IV: SKILLS FOR PEACE” at Zion Church will also be accompanied by a Ukrainian video programme, as well as a concert by Sven Helbig, on 17 April 2022.
April 08 until May 01, 2022
Opening thursday, April 07, 2022 18:00 pm
Zionskirche, Zionskirchplatz, 10119 Berlin
His powerful, colour-intensive paintings are regarded as a bridge between art before and after the Second World War, between Expressionism, abstraction and free gestural painting after 1945, between German and international Modernism: Ernst Wilhelm Nay (1902-1968). As a young artist, Nay had already gained recognition among collectors, art historians and critics around 1930, had been represented in important exhibitions and had received first prizes. With his participation in the “documenta” in Kassel in 1955, 1959 and 1964 as well as the “Biennales” in São Paulo and Venice, he finally established himself as a permanent fixture in modern art.
Hamburger Kunsthalle
March 25 – August 07, 2022
March 6 – June 12, 2022
The exhibition presents a retrospective overview of Max Peiffer Watenphul’s extraordinary oeuvre. It traces the persistence of Bauhaus ideas in his entire oeuvre, but also poses questions about image making, contemplative immersion in individual motifs and experimentation with image detail, light and colour. In addition to his impressive oeuvre, his diverse contacts with artists, literary figures and intellectuals of the time should also be highlighted. Accordingly, the exhibition also tells of the exchange and mutual influence with, for example, Helmut Kolle, Otto Dix or Alexej von Jawlensky.
With MINIMAL ART. KÖRPER IM RAUM, the Bucerius Kunstforum presents seventeen iconic works by Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt and Frank Gerritz, among others. In contrast to the reduced formal language, the use of industrially manufactured materials and a high degree of surface aesthetics – which are the hallmarks of Minimal Art – the exhibition at the Bucerius Kunst Forum focuses for the first time on the sensual side of Minimalism.
The exhibition can be visited at the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg until April 24, 2022.
With the title The Milk of Dreams, curator Cecilia Alemani will focus on three themes in the international exhibition: The representation of bodies and their metamorphosis; the relationship between individuals and technologies; the connection between bodies and the earth. The 59th Biennale di Venezia will take place as usual in the central pavilion (Giardini) and in the Arsenale from April 23 to November 27, 2022.
The 2021 Hans Theo Richter Prize, which is awarded by the Saxon Academy of Arts for significant achievements in the visual arts, especially drawing and graphic arts, is to be presented to Sandra Vásquez de la Horra. The award ceremony will take place on 10 September 2021 at the Albertinum in Dresden.
Juli 18 — September 12, 2021
Opening: Saturday, July 17, from 5 pm
Laudatio: Christoph Tannert, Art Historian
Music: Cathrin Pfeifer
Opening Hours: Saturday and Sunday 2-6 pm, Monday to Friday by appointment
July 10, 2021 to January 23, 2022
The Museum im Kleihues-Bau presents the new exhibition “René Wirths – Time is on my side” starting July 10, 2021. The masterful works of Berlin-based artist René Wirths show realistically painted motifs of everyday life, depicted larger than life against a neutral white background. His analytically observant gaze is directed at the thing “in itself” and thus fascinating and surprising object portraits are created in the studio.
October 03 – December 27, 2020
The Wessel-Verein and many of its members and friends have a long friendship and connection with the artist. Many exhibits are in Iserlohn houses. In the now sixth large solo exhibition, a cross-section of his work will be shown from October 03.
In addition, works by the artist will be shown in the group exhibition PAPER SKULPTURAL at the Verein für aktuelle Kunst/Ruhrgebiet e.V. in Oberhausen from August 30 to October 4, 2020.
August 01 – October 25, 2020
The Kunsthalle Rostock has invited the artist to relate her works to works from the collection of the Kunsthalle Rostock as well as to some loans in order to bring East German and East European art into a dialogue with regard to East Asia. The exhibition “From East to East” comprises some 44 works by Leiko Ikemura from the last three decades, including paintings, watercolours, sculptures and photographs. The latter, the black-and-white photographs, from the series “Fiori Mori” (2020) will be presented in an exhibition for the first time.
Kerstin Grimm at the Bautzener Kunstverein e.V.
July 10 – August 14, 2020
The Bautzener Kunstverein – Galerie Budissin presents drawings and sculptures by Kerstin Grimm.
March 21 – August 02, 2020
In a major exhibition, the Kunsthalle Bremen is paying tribute to the work of the Bremen painter Norbert Schwontkowski, who died in 2013. The comprehensive exhibition was created in cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Bonn and the Kunstmuseum Den Haag and brings together around 80 paintings and more than 40 sketchbooks by Schwontkowski from his estate as well as from German and international collections.
At the Bundeskunsthalle, March 13 – August 30, 2020
With objects from art, history and everyday culture, the exhibition makes it possible to approach a complex topic of high social relevance – and great closeness to life for all of us. With works by Carolein Smit.
The exhibition at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart will show a total of approximately 30 paintings and 30 works on paper by Uwe Lausen as well as more than 40 photographs by Heide Stolz, including works from the gallery’s own collection and loans from German museums and private collections.
The exhibition is a cooperation with the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Museum Gunzenhauser, where it can be seen from November 15, 2020 to February 07, 2021.
St. Matthew Foundation, May 04 – September 13, 2020
Berlin-based artist Leiko Ikemura transforms the light by designing the windows of St. Matthew’s Church as a large-format spatial drawing: Painting of light and colour, whose segments above the altar flow into each other in a light projection.
“I VALUE QUALITY OVER QUANTITY”
Sven Drühl interviewed René Wirths for the latest issue of KUNSTFORUM International, Volume 267. (German only)
Leiko Ikemura wins Art Encouragement Prize
The Agency of Cultural Affairs Japan (Bunkacho 文化庁) selected Leiko Ikemura for the 70th “Art Encouragement Prize of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Japan” (芸術選奨文部科学大臣賞) for the year 2019 (Visual Arts Section). Reason for the prize: The exhibition “Leiko Ikemura. Our Planet – Earth & Stars” at the National Art Center Tokyo.
The third solo exhibition by Dimitris Tzamouranis with the title New Paintings opens on Friday, January 17, 2020 at 8.30 pm in the Zena Athanasiadou Gallery.
The new exhibition “Nights” by Jordi Alcaraz opens on June 7, 2019 from 12:30 pm in the Museu de Montserrat, Spain.
The Kunstmuseum Basel is dedicating a retrospective exhibition to Leiko Ikemura, May 11 to September 01, 2019.