2008 - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Huang Yan, Chinese Shan-Shui Tatoo
No. 13, 1999
Museum, Beijing
11th October 2008 – 11th January 2009
Residenzschloss
Rulers required not only real power
but, above all, outward demonstrations
of power and prestige. The comparison
between these culturally different
historic “control centres” clearly demonstrates
the functioning of courtly
representation. The exhibition focused
on similarities and differences with
regard to employment of the arts,
court ceremonial and the respective
collecting policies of the two courts.
For the first time, works of art from the
Imperial Palace of China were displayed
alongside objects from the Staatliche
Kunstsammlungen Dresden in a joint
exhibition. The court of the Chinese
Emperors, unrivalled in the diversity of
its treasures, found a worthy counterpart
in the Saxon-Polish court, a centre
of the European fashion of ‘chinoiserie’.
The approximately 400 top-quality
exhibits were divided into six sections:
“Representational Displays of Power”,
“Festivities”, “The Court Household”,
“Grand Architecture”, “Courtly Arts
and Sciences” and “Politics and Diplomacy”.
Hao Junchen, ”An old man with a photo
of his late wife realises their shared dream
of a trip to Beijing”, Beijing, 2003
Ost trifft West (East meets West)
Exhibition by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Dresden with the kind
support of Staatliche Schlösser, Burgen
und Gärten Sachsen
15th June – 14th September 2008
Brühlscher Garten, Brühlsche Terrasse
This accompanying exhibition was
conceived and created by the designer
and artist Yang Liu, who was born in
Beijing and now lives in Berlin. Her
succinct pictograms contrast German
and Chinese cultural differences in a
humorous ironic way, inviting open
discussion about cultural identity and
the value systems of each country.
DREsDEN iN ChiNA
Visitor to the exhibition
“Zeichen im Wandel der Zeit”
(The Transforming Marks of Ink)
gerhard Richter. bilder 1963 – 2007
(gerhard Richter. Paintings 1963 – 2007)
Exhibition by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Dresden and the Museum
Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, in
association with the Bayerische
Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich,
and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
15th May – 2nd July 2008
National Art Museum of China, Beijing
For the first time, a large-scale retrospective
of paintings by Gerhard Richter
Exhibition “Zeichen im Wandel der Zeit”
in the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau
was on display in China. The artist himself
selected the exhibits and the form
of presentation. No other international
contemporary artist has had such an
immense influence on the young generation
of artists in China as Gerhard
Richter.
Living Landscapes.
A journey through german Art
Exhibition by the Staatliche Museen zu
Berlin, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Dresden and Bayerische
Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich
15th May – 2nd 2008
National Art Museum of China, Beijing
This exhibition showed an outstanding
selection of German landscape paintings
produced over the past 200 years. The
theme of “Figure and Landscape” was a
determining and unifying factor in these
paintings, which ranged from the Romantic
period via Expressionism to the
present day. All three artistic epochs have
been of great importance for the history
of Dresden, Berlin and Munich as centres
of the arts and are major collecting focal
points of the state art collections.
All these exhibitions took place under the joint
patronage of German Federal President Horst
Köhler and Hu Jintao, State President of the
People’s Republic of China.
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