An exhibition in collaboration with the Kunststiftung DZ BANK
Works by artists in the Kunstsammlung der Berliner Volksbank ‒ a
collection emphasising figurative art from the 1980s and 1990s created
in Berlin and East Germany ‒ are juxtaposed with contemporary art from
the DZ BANK’s collection that focuses on photographic forms of
expression from 1945 to the present.
collection emphasising figurative art from the 1980s and 1990s created
in Berlin and East Germany ‒ are juxtaposed with contemporary art from
the DZ BANK’s collection that focuses on photographic forms of
expression from 1945 to the present.
Image gallery
A painting by Clemens Gröszer from 1987 enters into dialogue with a photograph by artist Loredana
Nemes from 2009. Whereas the calm gaze of the woman in Gröszer’s
portrait seems to look away from the viewer at something in the
distance, the male gaze Nemes captures in her photograph taken at a
teahouse in Berlin-Neukölln disappears behind an window pane’s
ornamental-patterned privacy film. The two portraits address notions of
nearness and distance in equal measure. This is conveyed in the
different ways they disengage from the viewer and by the political
resonances they evoke, leaving the viewer to fill in the blanks.
Various art historical genres resurface in the exhibition: portraits,
figural works, landscapes, architectural representations, etc. They are
subjects connecting artists that go beyond generation and genre.
The
diversity of artistic approaches clearly illustrates that exploration of
the human condition (Conditio humana) happens in each
individual’s here and now, and is subject to artistic discourse as well
as constant change and expansion of perspectives.
In the exhibition, a dialogue between the diverse media and materials
unfolds alongside thematic emphases that include gender, society, urban
spaces, and abstraction.
In the true sense of the word, Rainer
Fetting’s watercolours “collide” with Richard Hamilton’s painterly
photographs as Rolf Lindemann’s intimate oil paintings do with Alexandra
Baumgartner’s Surrealist-inspired photocollages; photographer Arno
Fischer’s iconic photograph Marlene Dietrich, Moscow (1964)
enters into dialogue with a bronze sculpture by René Graetz; the
digitally produced “dreidimensionale Fotografien” (three-dimensional
photographs), as Beate Gütschow calls her works, correspond with
Wolfgang Leber’s oil painting; and Stefanie Seufert’s folded Towers,
made into objects from photograms, are based on concepts of abstract
and non-objective painting, as can be found in Reinhard Grimm’s
canvases.
The exhibition includes works by:
Horst Antes (*1936), Alexandra Baumgartner (*1973), Manfred Butzmann
(*1942), Frank Darius (*1963), Christa Dichgans (1940-2018), Rainer
Fetting (*1949), Arno Fischer (1927-2011), Günther Förg (1952-2013), Nan
Goldin (*1953), René Graetz (1908-1974), Reinhardt Grimm (*1958),
Clemens Gröszer (1951-2014), Beate Gütschow (*1970), Richard Hamilton
(1922-2011), Angela Hampel (*1956), Richard Heß (1937-2017), Sven Johne
(*1976), Veronika Kellndorfer (*1962), Konrad Knebel (*1932), Hans Laabs
(1915-2004), Wolfgang Leber (*1936), Via Lewandowsky (*1963), Rolf
Lindemann (1933-2017), Lilly Lulay (*1985), Silke Miche (*1970), Herta
Müller (*1955), Loredana Nemes (*1972), Christina Renker (*1941), Adrian
Sauer (*1976), Michael Schmidt (1945-2014), Stefanie Seufert (*1969),
Hans Martin Sewcz (*1955), Maria Sewcz (*1960), Andrzej Steinbach
(*1983), Christian Thoelke (*1973), Wolfgang Tillmans (*1968), Ulay
(1943-2020), VALIE EXPORT (*1940) und Peter Weibel (1944-2023).
Additional information
Tue - Sun: 10:00 - 18:00
- Admission price 5,00 €
- Reduced price 3,00 €
Reduced admission for trainees, students, pensioners, welfare
recipients, severely disabled persons with official ID, owners of
ArtCard and Ehrenamtskarte.
Free admission for children and young people up to 18 years, school
classes incl. teachers, representatives of the press, recipients of
Bürgergeld, required accompanying person of severely disabled, artists
and lenders of the exhibition, members of the following associations:
International Council of Museums, International Association of Art,
Berufsverband Bildender Künstler*innen Berlin e.V., Bundesverband
Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler
Trainees, students,
pensioners, welfare recipients, severely disabled persons with official
ID. Free admission for children and young people up to 18 years, school
classes, required accompanying person of severely disabled.
An accompanying catalogue will be published.
