02.03. – 30.03.2025
Boris Becker, Alfred Ehrhardt, Wiebke Folkerts, Jochen Gerz, Bernd + Hilla Becher, Tim Hölscher, Charlotte Jansen, Mike Kelly, Willi Mögele, László Moholy-Nagy, Michael Najjar, Jörg Sasse, Annett Zinsmeister
On the occasion of the European Month of Photography in March 2025, we are therefore showing a selection of photographs from the collection from the 20th and 21st centuries with a focus on space and structure.
19.01. – 28.02.2025
Bernd Aubertin, Adolf Luther, Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, Günther Uecker, Ludwig Wilding
The artist group ZERO (1958-66) was looking for a new artistic beginning, a “zero hour” after the horror, destruction and atrocities committed by Germany in particular during the Second World War. “ZERO referred to a phase of silence and stillness, an intermediate zone in which an old state changes into a new one”. This explains the use of light, air, movement and fire.
13.10. 2024 – 12.01.2025
Joseph Beuys, Lisa Brice, Donald Judd, Herbert Otto Hajek, Hans Hartung, Markus Lüpertz, Albert Oehlen, Ben Willikens, Robert Rauschenberg, Paolo Scheggi, K.R.H. Sonderborg, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, Herbert Zangs
Paper is one of the oldest drawing media, but it is also a wonderful material for sculptural design. The exhibition brings together works that use and transform paper artistically in a wide variety of ways.
18.08. – 06.10.2024
Hans Kotter, François Morellet, Otto Piene, Keith Sonnier
Radiation, reflection, refraction,… With and through light, many exciting effects can be observed and artistically processed. The four selected artists deal with the medium of light and its phenomena in very different ways. This makes the synopsis all the more exciting.
16.06. – 04.08.2024
Carina Seth Andersson, Lena Bergström, Marianne Degener, Jan-Ritzmann, Sven Ake Carlsson
We know of the first glass objects from around 3500 B.C. Since then, the material has developed into its own art form
and some glassblowing companies have achieved world fame, such as Costa, Orrefors in the so-called glass kingdom of southern Sweden.
In the exhibition we show contemporary glass objects from glassblowing workshops in this region of Sweden.
28.04. – 09.06.2024
Annett Zinsmeister
In 2020, Annett Zinsmeister received a research grant to document Spreepark Berlin, the wasteland that became known as the “lost place” of the first and only amusement park in the GDR and the city of Berlin, and explored the park photographically over three years in search of traces of a bygone amusement culture. She is showing these to accompany the exhibition of her installation at Spreepark Art Space Berlin: experimental transformations of her documentation show the remains of rides, traces, fragments, ruins and their successive disappearance in the impenetrability of a natural-artificial jungle that has developed over the years.
03.03. – 21.04.2024
Frank Badur, Wolff Buchholz, Henri Chopin, Walther Dahn, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Ursula Hirsch, Nigel Mullins, Klaus Jürgen Schoen, Heinrich Siepmann, Volker Leonhardt, Herbert Zangs
Looking at a collection with a focus on the material, the technique or even the picture carrier is an exciting undertaking. The canvas is of particular importance here, especially as it seems to have passed through all possible stages of the artwork term, from being a valued and frequently used image carrier to an object. We bring together works by artists who use the canvas in a variety of ways as a medium.
14.01. – 25.02.2024
Kurd Alsleben, Hartmut Böhm, Geneviève Claisse, Paul Uwe Dreyer, Patrick Dupré, Marcel Floris, K.O. Götz, Terry Haggerty, Martina Klein, Norbert Kricke, Agnes Martin, Walter LeBlanc, Rune Mields, Betha Sarasin, H.D. Schrader, Timm Ulrichs, Ian Tyson, Rudolf Velanta, Jorinde Voigt, Uli Pohl, Ludwig Wilding, Frieder Nake, Shizuko Yoshikawa
In mathematics, a line is considered a one-dimensional geometric structure with no transverse extension. In art it becomes two-dimensional through material-related, different widths and, according to Paul Klee, is the beginning of the artistic form: a point that sets itself in motion. From the grid to the trace of movement – the line appears in art in a wide variety of forms, representations and compositions.
26.11. – 07.01.2024
Agamben, Gerlinde Beck, Bonato, Franz Bucher, Eberhard Eckerle, Gottfried Honegger, Hans Kotter, Gerhard Mantz, Vera Molnár, Ben Muthofer, Ansgar Nierhoff, C.O. Paeffgen, Jan-Erik Ritzmann, Michael Sailsdorfer, Paolo Scheggi, Schmidt-Schmelzer, Herbert Zangs
Is there a clearly defined difference between sculpture and object? Giacometti once said: “A sculpture is not an object, it is a question, an answer. They can never be finished, never perfect.” We would like to say the same for the object and have brought very different works from the collection into a dialogue to look for Answer.
21.09. – 12.11.2023
Gerlinde Beck, Martha Boto, Ursula Hirsch, Geneviève Claisse, Agnes Martin, Rune Mields, Vera Molnár, Helga Philipp, Rosemarie Trockel
Abstraction in art is a novelty of the 20th century and a focal point of our collection. It was women artists who painted the first abstract pictures at the end of the 19th century, many years before women gained access to the academies. To this day, many of them are comparatively unknown and little represented, and unfortunately they are also in the minority in our collection. This exhibition is dedicated to the women artists who focus on abstraction since the 20th century.