2008 - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Woman with her children during
the deportation of Jews, 23rd September
1942 (detail), Yad Vashem
Memorial Centre, Jerusalem
32 • Die Farbe der Worte. Künstler und Schriftsteller
aus Dresden (The Colour of Words.
Artists and Writers from Dresden)
• Alexander Neumann: Dresden and
Venice. Paintings and Sculptures.
Michael G. Fritz: Texte
14th March – 23rd May 2008
• Wolfgang Korn: Architectural portraits.
Michael G. Fritz: Texte
6th June – 18th July 2008
Residenzschloss, Kunstbibliothek
“The Colour of Words” is a series of events
that was launched by the Kunstbibliothek
(Art Library) specifically in order to offer
Dresden artists a forum for exhibitions on
various themes with a local bearing. At
the opening ceremony for each exhibition,
the well-known writer Michael G. Fritz introduced
the artist and discussed the literary
inspiration behind the artist’s work
and the themes it deals with, and he also
read some of his own texts. The presentation
of words and pictures in direct proximity
to one another revealed previously
overlooked common features between
these two forms of artistic activity.
kunstfonds
• Schaudepot #2. Reisebilder
(Storeroom 2. Travel pictures)
11th April – 21st May 2008
Paintings storeroom of the Kunstfonds
In the exhibition »Schaudepot #2« the
Kunstfonds continued the series of events
Gerhard Bondzin, Vietnamese Girl, Kunstfonds
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begun in 2007 in which selected works
from the storerooms of the collection are
put on display. Under the title »Reisebilder«,
impressions recorded by Dresden artists
while travelling abroad were presented.
Ulrike Gärtner. VIVARIUM und/oder
Mobile Einbürgerungshilfe für ALIENS
(Ulrike Gärtner. VIVARIUM and/or Mobile
Naturalisation Assistance for ALIENS)
from 3rd September 2008
Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau
The VIVARIUM functions as an enclosed habitat
for a species of silkworm moth which
feeds on the leaves of the Chinese Tree of
Heaven. From the outside, the VIVARIUM is
made to look like a UFO, and at the same
time it is a permanent exhibition feature in
a public urban environment. Through this
artistic object, Ulrike Gärtner deals with
our day-to-day responses to foreignness
and questions visual and socio-political
patterns of perception.
• Schaudepot #3. Weibsbilder
(Storeroom 3. Images of Women)
23rd October – 2nd December 2008
Paintings storeroom of the Kunstfonds
The exhibition entitled “Weibsbilder”
showed a selection of female portraits
as well as depictions of women in their
various roles and spheres of life.
• Lys Geburtstag. Vietnamesen im Dresden
der 80er Jahre. Fotografien von Matthias
Rietschel (Ly’s Birthday. Vietnamese people
… ALIENS are about …
in Dresden in the 1980s. Photographs by
Matthias Rietschel)
21st November 2008 – 18th April 2009
Goethe-Institut Dresden
This exhibition organised by the Kunstfonds
and the Goethe-Institut in Dresden
presented images captured by the Dresden
photographer Matthias Rietschel.
This series of photos, which were taken in
1988/89 under a promotional agreement
with the Dresden District Council, shows
the lives of Vietnamese contract workers
and students in Dresden.
museumspädagogik
• Könige – Kostbarkeiten – Kästchen –
Kinder – Kunstwerke (Kings – Treasures –
Boxes – Children – Works of Art)
4th September – 16th October 2008
Residenzschloss, Tonnengewölbe
Inspired by the Grünes Gewölbe, children
from the KunstRaum (Art Room) at the
Dresden special school for children with
language problems created their own
works of art.
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generaldirektion
Lichtflecke – Frau sein im Holocaust (Spots
of Light – To Be a Woman in the Holocaust)
Exhibition by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Dresden and the Yad Vashem Holocaust
Memorial Centre in Jerusalem in associa-