Genres

The Australian gallery artist Michael Kutschbach comes via Weimar from Adelaide (AU) with his students and will generate the exhibition in Berlin in a workshop. The very short exhibition venture will form an essence of the experience of the Australian students and their teacher with the German cultural space. The opening hours will be on Saturday and Sunday from 1 - 10 pm. The next day the students will return home.

The competition, 100 Best Posters. Germany, Austria and Switzerland, has entered its twenty-second round! We eagerly await submissions and the year’s winning posters, which will set out on a worldwide exhibition tour in June 2023.

In autumn 2023, the Neue Nationalgalerie will present Tehching Hsieh’s work One Year Performance 1980–1981 (Time Clock Piece). Born in 1950 in Nanzhou, Pingtung, Taiwan, Tehching Hsieh became known internationally in the late 1970s and early 1980s primarily for his durational performances, each of which ran over a year.

Taking the stories and histories of the Indian Ocean as its departure point, the group exhibition Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora investigates the links between the continents of Africa and Asia.

Chris Watts is an abstract painter and mixed-media artist. At the center of this artistic approach lies the creation of momentum; of disruption. The artist addresses the figurative and abstract role of the black body. The abstract paintings overturn prescribed modes of figurative representation, placing a sense of absence instead. By totally erasing the figure, the paintings emphasize the act of disappearance, emancipating notions of blackness from the Western imagination.

During the Cold War, some remarkable big buildings emerged in West Berlin as new locations for science, research and the arts. After years of neglect and now technically obsolete, most of these buildings are threatened with demolition. Ever since they appeared, these architectures have often been criticised as unsightly and inefficient. That view is being challenged today by a group of academics, cultural workers and politicians who appreciate them as achievements of modern Western technology.

To commemorate the centenary of Judit Reigl’s birth of and the acquisition of a group of important paintings by this Hungarian-born French artist, the Neue Nationalgalerie will present her first-ever solo exhibition in a German museum.

Challenging both the art world and society at large, General Idea remain a lastingly influential artist group whose groundbreaking practice spans 25 years. In the most comprehensive retrospective on the trio ever produced, the Gropius Bau presents more than 200 works from the late 1960s to the early 1990s.

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s (1881–1973) death, the Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst (Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art) has invited the Museum Berggruen to participate in a special presentation at the Bode-Museum. Within this context, a selection of Picasso’s works from the Museum Berggruen enters into dialogue at the Bode-Museum with 14th-to-18th-century Spanish artworks.