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Art and Design for All The Victoria and Albert Museum 18 November 2011 to 15 April 2012 The Victoria & Albert Museum in London is the world’s leading museum of art and design and has been a near-inexhaustible source of inspiration, innovation and knowledge since its foundation in the mid-19th century. The exhibition traces the history of this fascinating and hugely influential museum. The museum was founded in the wake of the Great Exhibition of All Nations of 1851 which presented the British Empire as the most advanced industrial nation. In 1857, following the phenomenal success of this pioneering universal exhibition, Queen Victoria opened the South Kensington Museum, the forerunner of today’s Victoria and Albert Museum and the prototype of present-day museological displays. From day one, the museum was celebrated as an exemplary educational institution that reached an unusually wide audience. Not only did its collections help improve the aesthetic quality of British manufactures and industrial products, they also provided models to be emulated and acted as a school of public taste, educating the museum audience in matters of discernment and taste. The exhibition Art and Design for All reconstructs the focus of the original core collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and sheds light on its innovative approach and its function as a role model for other institutions. The exhibition also presents the results of recent research into the continental roots of the V&A, which can be traced back to the ideas of Queen Victoria’s German husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a graduate of the University of Bonn, and the museum landscape of 19th-century Germany. Shown only in Bonn, the exhibition continues the Art and Exhibition Hall’s successful series of presentations devoted to the world’s great collections. Art and Design for All showcases some 400 spectacular items from the rich holdings of the V&A, which is lending on this scale for the first time in its history. The exhibits are complemented by exquisite pieces from the Royal Collection, the Berlin Kunstgewerbemuseum and the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Budapest. The exhibition is held under the patronage of HRH The Prince of Wales. An exhibition of the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, in cooperation with the Victoria & Albert Museum, London Illustration: Day dress (Detail), 1862, Jacquard-woven silk, Victoria and Albert Museum, London © V & A Images / Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
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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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ECHORAUM 6 sechs minus 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 6 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: Robert Lebeck, Romy Schneider wearing Robert Lebeck's cap, Berlin 1976, silver gelatine print on fibre-based paper © Robert Lebeck/Stern/Picture Press |
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Am Anfang (In the Beginning) Works by Anselm Kiefer from the Grothe Collection 15 June to 16 September 2012 Anselm Kiefer (*1945) is one of the most internationally renowned German artists of our time. Coinciding with dOCUMENTA 13 in Kassel, the Art and Exhibition Hall is devoting some 2000 square metres of exhibition space to a presentation of key works by the artist. At the heart of the selection of important paintings from a period spanning three decades are works from last twenty years. Produced after the artist's move to France in 1991, they explore Judeo-Christian and mythological subjects and are less well known in Germany than the artist's earlier work. The often-cited pathos that is said to characterise Kiefer's work seems strangely broken in these later works. Once again, the Art and Exhibition Hall pays homage to the achievement of private collectors – a single individual in this case – whose commitment and enthusiasm complement the efforts of public museums and add vibrancy to the cultural landscape. 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. 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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| The British Museum Treasures of the World's Cultures 30 November 2012 to 1 April 2013 The British Museum is one of the world's greatest museums of cultural history. Founded in 1753, it was also the world's first national museum. Its ambitious mission was to assemble, study and present under a single roof historical and modern objects from all over the world and to illustrate the history of humanity. Divided into seven sections, the exhibition brings together some 200 choice objects and offers visitors an insight into the unparalleled collections of the British Museum. The objects range from Stone Age tools from Africa to classical sculptures, from sumptuous Mesopotamian gold jewellery to drawings by Renaissance masters. |
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