2009 - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

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Classical Sculptures from the Museo
del Prado on View in Dresden”
The special exhibition
”Golden Dragon – White Eagle”
in the State Rooms of the
Residenzschloss
SPECIAL EXH I B ItIONS I N
DRESDEN, SAXONY AN D
GERMANY I N 2009
Director-General’s Department
• Goldener Drache – Weißer Adler:
Kunst im Dienste der Macht am Kaiserhof
von China und am sächsisch-polnischen
Hof (1644 – 1795) · Golden Dragon – White
Eagle: Art and Power at the Courts of
Chinese Emperors and Saxon-Polish Rulers
(1644 – 1795)
Exhibition by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Dresden and the Palace Museum,
Beijing. The exhibition was under the patronage
of Federal President Horst Köhler
and Hu Jintao, President of the People’s
Republic of China.
Until 11th January 2009 (from 11th October
2008) Residenzschloss, 2nd floor · Rulers required
not only real power but also outward
demonstrations of power and prestige.
This exhibition focused on similarities and
differences in the employment of the arts,
court ceremonial and collecting policies.
For the first time, works of art from the
Imperial Palace of China in Beijing were
displayed alongside objects from the
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and
the court of the Chinese Emperors, with its
diverse treasures, was directly compared
with the Saxon-Polish court, a centre
of the European fashion of ‘chinoiserie’.
Martin Eder, “In den Nachmittag geflüstert”
(Whispered into Afternoon), 2007; Courtesy
of Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin
• MADONNA MEETS MAO. Ausgewählte
Werke aus der Sammlung der Yageo
Foundation, Taiwan (Madonna meets
Mao. Selected Works from the Collection
of the Yageo Foundation, Taiwan)
Exhibition by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Dresden in association with the
Yageo Foundation · Until 11th January 2009
(from 31st October 2008)
Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau
Since the mid-1990s Pierre T. M. Chen,
owner of a globally operating electronics
company, has collected outstanding works
by artists such as Francis Bacon, Georg
Baselitz, Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Anselm
Kiefer, Gerhard Richter, Peter Doig and
Andreas Gursky. His collection also includes
a wide range of works by modern
Chinese painters from the first half of the
20th century as well as contemporary
Asian art. In Dresden the full spectrum of
this unusual collection was shown for the
first time. Western and oriental art engaged
in an unconventional form of dialogue.
• Martin Eder. Der dunkle Grund
(Martin Eder. The Dark Abyss)
Exhibition by the Staatliche
Kunstsammlungen Dresden
1st February – 26th April 2009
Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau
Martin Eder is one of the most successful
among the younger generation of German
artists. This exhibition showed more than
30 paintings from the past six years.
Apparently harmless cute kittens, as well
Contemporary art from the Hoffmann
Collection in the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau:
“To the Milky Way by Bicycle”
as girls depicted in lascivious poses,
reflect banal images from our everyday
culture and ostensibly evoke an impression
of cosy familiarity, often with a seemingly
erotic connotation. Yet inscribed into these
images is a conspicuous aura of doubt.
Against the background of the constant
trivialisation and the overstimulation and
dulling of our senses, the clichés of our
visual consumer culture become modern
actors in a “comédie humaine” which
evokes both affinity and uncertainty.
• Mit dem Fahrrad zur Milchstraße. Zeitgenössische
Kunst aus der Sammlung Hoffmann,
Berlin (To the Milky Way by Bicycle.
Contemporary Art from the Hoffmann
Collection, Berlin)
Exhibition by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Dresden in association with the
Hoffmann Collection, Berlin
18th June – 20th September 2009
Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau
Obligated only to their own interests and
inclinations, Erika and Rolf Hoffmann began
collecting art in the late 1960s. They
devoted particular attention to the violation
of artistic rules and the transgression
of limits, which results in new and extraordinary
things being revealed through
ceaseless grappling with contemporary
life. Among their first acquisitions were
works by the group ZERO. Since then,
a collection has grown in which quite
different eras, items and media have been
brought together in an exciting synthesis.
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