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Ménage à trois Warhol, Basquiat, Clemente 10 February to 20 May 2012 The New York art scene of the 1980s is the stuff of legend. Buoyant and creative, it was open to all kinds of new media and offered young talents a world of opportunity. Graffiti artists took art to the streets, others brought the everyday into their studios. The quest for innovation meant that all traditions were up for grabs and relentlessly questioned. Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente – three of the leading artists of the time – are the subject of this major exhibition. At the heart of the show are the collaborative works by the three artists. These are complemented by a wide range of individual works that highlight the three very different artistic temperaments. The exhibition was conceived in cooperation with ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Denmark. Illustration: Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat & Francesco Clemente, New York, 1984 © Beth Philipps, Courtesy Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zürich |
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sechs minus ECHORAUM 10 February to 20 May 2012 ECHORAUM (Echo Room) is the result of a series of two-year cooperations between the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany and a number of international Media Colleges. Students and graduates of these institutions are given the opportunity to present their current projects in the lower ground floor galleries which become a temporary experimental laboratory. This exhibition, the sixth in the series, brings to an end the two-year cooperation with the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and the -1/ Minus Eins experimental media lab initiated there by Professor Mischa Kuball. Presenting works by twenty artists, it is the first Echo Room exhibition to include two live performances, both of which engage directly with the Art and Exhibition Hall: |
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Romy Schneider 5 April to 24 June 2012 Romy Schneider was one of the most important German-speaking actresses. Her image is deeply ingrained in our collective memory. Having shot to fame as Sissi in the eponymous romantic biopic about Elisabeth, Empress Consort of Austria, a role that was to haunt her, particularly in Germany, she established herself as a star of French cinema in the 1970s. The exhibition pays homage to the film star and to the private individual and seeks to trace her fascinating career from her early roles, her courageous professional emancipation, her private tragedy and her deeply passionate nature to her untimely death. Images taken from her films, the press and her private life are juxtaposed with film clips. These are complemented with media installations, film posters, costumes, letters, fan articles and numerous photographs of Romy Schneider, her film partners and her family. A co-operation with the Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin, and Akouna, Paris. Illustration: Romy Schneider, 1972; © Eva Sereny / Camerapress / Gamma-Rapho |
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International bird airport Ornithoport from June to autumn 2012 There are a lot of airfields for airplanes but the concept of having an international airport for birds is one-of-a-kind all over the world. To place the artist project right on the roof of the Art and Exhibition Hall is a new idea of handling nature. At this place nature itself will be documented with concepts of human civilisation. Art and nature protection should be combined in one project. In cooperation with ingold airlines. Photo: International bird airport on the roof of the Art and Exhibition Hall |
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Am Anfang (In the Beginning) Anselm Kiefer. Works from the Grothe Collection 20 June to 16 September 2012 Anselm Kiefer is one of the most important international artists of our time. His epic works fascinate with their unusual choice of material which underpins their subject matter: thickly applied layers of paint, earth, lead, enamel, plants, clothing or hair reach beyond the two-dimensionality of pictorial space. Coinciding with dOCUMENTA 13 in Kassel, the Art and Exhibition Hall is presenting a selection of key works by the artist from the Grothe Collection. Hans Grothe’s decision to hold on to his works by Anselm Kiefer when he sold his substantial art collection in 2005 bears witness to the collector’s longstanding and unbroken fascination with the artist’s unique stance. The Art and Exhibition Hall is the first gallery to present this body of work almost in its entirety. At the heart of the selection of key paintings from a period spanning three decades are works from this side of the millennial divide. Ensembles from 2010 and 2011 testify to Kiefer’s sustained interest in the subject of the panorama. While his work before his move to France in 1991 dealt predominantly with German history and mythology, his more recent output explores Judeo-Christian and mythological subjects. The often-cited pathos that is said to characterise the artist’s work seems strangely broken, restrained and neutralised in these later works. A cooperation with the Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V. in Bonn Illustration: Anselm Kiefer, Am Anfang, 2008, oil, emulsion and lead on photo paper, Grothe Collection, ©Anselm Kiefer, 2011, courtesy Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V., Bonn |
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PIXAR 25 Years of Animation 6 July 2012 to 6 January 2013 Finding Nemo, Toy Story and Ratatouille – PIXAR's distinctive brand of intelligent, witty humour, their feel for convincing characters and their breathtakingly innovative animation techniques have been rewarded with an impressive track record of cinematic highlights. Since its foundation PIXAR has produced 12 full-length films and a string of shorts which have won fourteen Academy Awards and thirty-six Oscar nominations. The exhibition delves into world of the popular films and provides an insight into the workings of PIXAR Studios which are part of the Walt Disney Company. Paintings, drawings, works on paper, maquettes, film sequences and documentaries illustrate the outstanding creativity of PIXAR that is behind the ground-breaking, completely computer-animated films. Illustration:© Disney/Pixar |
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Masters of Chaos Fools. Artists. Saints. 31 August to 2 December 2012 Shamans, fools, fortune tellers, artists, heroes and medicine men – the exhibition sheds light on the role of the (super)human visionary in European and non-European civilisations and cultures from all periods of history. The exhibition explores the human and the superhuman , Christian thought and the extraterrestrial, disease and health, madness and reason. Strange images, spiritual symbols, wild figures from ancient Egypt, the Far East or Oceania are shown alongside European baroque, modernist and contemporary works. Their manifest differences notwithstanding, they bear witness to the universality of the concept of the outstanding individual who transcends the limitations of self and society. This exhibition was designed and produced by the musée du quai Branly. It is initially presented in Paris from April 11th to July 29th 2012. Illustration: Die heiligen Narren in Christo Prokopij und Ioann von Ustjug, Ikone, ca. 1660-1700, Eitempera auf Holz, © Ikonen-Museum Recklinghausen |
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Treasures of the World's Cultures The British Museum 30 November 2012 to 7 April 2013 Treasures of the World’s Cultures brings together more than 200 of the finest objects in the British Museum collection. Drawn from all of the Museum’s curatorial departments, these works come from every part of the world and from all ages. Collectively they form an overview of 2 million years of human culture and history. The range of the selected objects is unique. Audiences in Bonn will discover archaeological treasures from across the ancient world, magnificent Near East and Islamic artworks, masterpieces of non- Western cultures and much more. Every artefact displayed here is exceptional, and each has its own unique story to tell. The Treasures exhibition will give audiences in Bonn a sense of the British Museum collection as it can be experienced in London. Comprising objects from the whole world, past and present, it will enable the visitor to compare and contrast the varied patterns of life of different peoples and societies. Moreover, it will reveal how made objects we consider to be ‘treasures’ can embody ideas and concerns common to all humanity, and how too such artefacts serve to preserve and memorialise the past. The exhibition is presented by the British Museum in collaboration with the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany. Illustration: Anthropomorphe Maske mit Nasenornament, 100 v. Chr. – 1600 n. Chr., späte Quimbaya Kultur, Kolumbien, © Trustees of the British Museum |
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On the trails of the Iroquois 22 March to 4 August 2013 in Bonn Fearsome warriors and gifted diplomats – the Iroquois, who originally inhabited the present-day state of New York, successfully kept the European colonial armies at bay during the 17th and 18th centuries. At the same time the formation of their influential intertribal confederacy inspired European intellectual history. The status of women in their society gave momentum to the women's movement of the 19th century, in the 20th century their hairstyle became a symbol of Punk culture. But who were and are the Iroquois? With unique loans from the United States, Canada, as well as numerous European museums, the exhibition for the first times undertakes a comprehensive search for the trails of the Iroquois throughout the centuries. Historical paintings and drawings, precious ethnographic objects, and extraordinary examples of Iroquois contemporary art tell their varied history, characterized by war, trade, Christian missions, loss of land, and isolation on reservations. Likewise addressed, however, is their forceful reassertion of cultural identity in the 20th and 21st centuries. Abb.: William Berczy, Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant), oil on canvas, ca. 1807, © National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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Kleopatra The Eternal Diva 19 July to 10 November 2013 in Bonn Few historical figures divide public opinion as much as Cleopatra VII, the last queen of Ancient Egypt (69–30 BC). Her beauty is the stuff of legend. She is said to have been highly educated and alluring, politically astute and cunning, capricious and courageous. Her eventful life and colourful personality inspired numerous writers, painters and composers. Over the past two thousand years every era has produced its own distinctive image of Cleopatra. These constructs reflect not only the then prevalent models of femininity but also the cultural, political and social concerns of their time. This astonishing fact forms the starting point of our interdisciplinary exhibition. It presents the many faces of Cleopatra from antiquity to the pop culture of the present day. A selection of outstanding sculptures, paintings and photographs as well as films and video works invite the viewer on a journey through history and around the world, a journey that also raises poignant questions about our own identity. Abb.: Andy Warhol, Blue Liz as Cleopatra, 1962 Acrylic, silkscreen ink, and pencil on linen, Daros Collection, Switzerland © 2011 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ ARS, NY |
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Subject to change without notice. Last Update: 14.05.2012 |