EXHIBITIONS 2012 / 2013 - Berlinische Galerie

EXHIBITIONS
2012 / 2013
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Berlin, 18. September 2012
The Videolounge in the Berlinische Galerie
Until 26.09.2012
Over the course of one year, the Videolounge will present 12 artists who have drawn
attention to themselves with innovative use of the media film and video in recent
years. The new programme format not only presents young talents who have made
their mark on Berlin’s active art scene as yet. Established representatives of
contemporary video art are also invited to show both early and current work. A new,
changing programme of different works will be compiled each month.
Artist in September 2012
Guy Ben Ner: 22.08.-26.09.2012
Michael Sailstorfer - Forst
Vattenfall Contemporary 2012
Until 08.10.2012
Michael Sailstorfer (*1979 Velden/Vils), is the prize-winner of “Vattenfall
Contemporary 2012”. This choice pays tribute to an artistic position that re-questions
and extends the classical concept of sculpture. In his often lavishly produced works
he creates new, unfamiliar relations between everyday objects and processes, so
generating images with great poetic effect.
The central motif of his first major solo exhibition in Berlin is the forest. Five trees in
the installation Forst, hanging upside down and revolving around their own axes, take
up the whole of the 10-metre high exhibition space. While Sailstorfer brings nature
into the exhibition space here, with his second work Schwarzwald (Black Forest) he
takes art into nature: he produced a square field in an area of forest using black paint,
which is reminiscent of Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square dating from 1914/15. Its
slow disintegration, triggered by natural processes, is watched over by a video
camera and transmitted via live stream to a screen in the exhibition space.
Guy Ben-Ner, Stealing
Beauty, 2007,
© Guy Ben Ner,
Courtesy Galerie Konrad
Fischer, Berlin/Düsseldorf
Michael Sailstorfer:
Raketenbaum, 2008,
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2012,
Photography: Achim Kukulies
Courtesy Johann König,
Berlin; Zero…,Mailand
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Sailstorfer studied under Olaf Metzel at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at
Goldsmiths College in London. To date, it has been possible to see solo exhibitions of
his work in the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt a. M. (2008), the Kestner Society
Hanover (2010/11), the S.M.A.K. in Genth (2011), and Kunsthalle Nuremberg
(2011).
The members of the jury for Vattenfall Contemporary were: Magnus af Petersen,
Head of Exhibitions and Collections, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Angela Bulloch,
prizewinner of Vattenfall Contemporary 2011; Udo Bekker, Board member HR,
Vattenfall Europe AG; Hanna Marie Ebert, Manager of Corporate Art – Vattenfall
Collection; Dr. Thomas Köhler, Director of the Berlinische Galerie; Dr. Heinz Stahlhut,
Head of the Fine Art Collection, Berlinische Galerie
The Shuttered Society
Artistic Photography in the GDR 1949-1989
05.10.2012–28.01.2013
Press conference: 4.10. at 11 am, opening 4.10. at 7 pm
The Berlinische Galerie is putting together the first exhibition in the world to take a
comprehensive look at art photography in the GDR. Key questions will be: Was art
photography ever free under authoritarian East German conditions? And how did
things change over the course of four decades? The museum will show works by 33
photographers that critically reflect social conditions: Ursula Arnold’s blunt
descriptions of everyday life, Arno Fischer’s melancholy symbolic images, Jens
Rötzsch’s colourful metaphors of a society falling apart, and the purely subjective,
emotional compositions to be found in work by Thomas Florschuetz and Maria
Sewcz. The positions selected convey the major threads of development in art
photography in the GDR: montage and experimentation, documentary perspectives
and social reportage, and the work of young newcomers in the 1980s.
Artists: Ursula Arnold, Tina Bara, Sibylle Bergemann, Christian Borchert, Micha
Brendel, Kurt Buchwald, Lutz Dammbeck, Klaus Elle, Arno Fischer, Thomas
Florschuetz, Ernst Goldberg, Klaus Hähner-Springmühl, Matthias Hoch, Edmund
Kesting, Jörg Knöfel, Fritz Kühn, Matthias Leupold, Ulrich Lindner, Karl Heinz Mai,
Sven Marquardt, Roger Melis, Florian Merkel, Peter Oehlmann, Helga Paris, Manfred
Paul, Richard Peter sen., Evelyn Richter, Jens Rötzsch, Rudolf Schäfer, Michael
Scheffer, Erasmus Schröter, Gundula Schulze-Eldowy, Maria Sewcz, Ulrich Wüst
Exhibition architecture: David Saik, Berlin.
The exhibition is being supported by the Federal Cultural Foundation.
Tue Greenfort
GASAG ART PRIZE 2012
02.11.2012–01.04.2013
Press conference: 31.10. at 11 am, opening 1.11. at 7 pm
In 2012 artist Tue Greenfort, who was born in Holbæk (Denmark) in 1973 and works
in Berlin, will receive the GASAG Art Prize, which was re-programmed two years ago.
He belongs to a younger generation of artists who are approaching ecological themes
in a new aesthetic manner. However, Greenfort is not merely concerned with
questions of sustainability, but also with an understanding of ecology as a “systemic
model for social, economic and cultural phenomena and contexts” (Greenfort).
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Jens Rötzsch:
Berlin (Ost) 1989 -
Pfingsttreffen der FDJ -
Stadion der Weltjugend,
© Jens Rötzsch
Tue Greenfort: The Worldly
House, 2012, Commissioned
and produced by
dOCUMENTA (13),
© Photography: Nils Klinger
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The artist works on this field using subtle associations of content, formal precision,
and ironic references to the art of the 1960s and 70s. His works are always sitespecific
and investigate historical facts as well as chemical and physical processes.
Jury: Prof. Dr. Eugen Blume, Director of the Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für
Gegenwart, Berlin; Markus Strieder, artist, Berlin; Dr. Luca F. Ticini, Max Planck
Institute for Cognitive and Neuro-Sciences Leipzig; Dr. Susanne Witzgall, Academy of
Fine Arts, Munich, and Dr. Thomas Köhler, Director of the Berlinische Galerie;
Observers: Birgit Jammes, Sponsoring/Communication GASAG, Berlin, and
Dr. Heinz Stahlhut, Head of the Fine Art Collection, Berlinische Galerie.
K. H. Hödicke
Painting, Sculpture, Film
22.02.2013–27.05.2013
Press conference: 21.02. at 11am, opening: 21.02. at 7 pm
The comprehensive oeuvre of the multi-faceted artist K.H. Hödicke is to be presented
in Berlin for the first time in twenty years. In this retrospective of the work of this
painter and sculptor, Berlinische Galerie will focus on his experimental visual forms,
film works, and architectural images, objects, and sculptures. The presentation’s
point of departure is the institution’s own collection, which features several key work
groups from Hödicke’s trans-disciplinary oeuvre.
Born in Nuremberg in 1938, Hödicke came to Berlin in 1957, where he studied with
Fred Thieler at the Hochschule der Künste (HdK) and co-founded the artist’s gallery
Großgörschen 35 in 1964. After a one-year stay in New York and in Rome as a Villa
Massimo fellow, in the mid-1970s he began teaching at HdK in a position he held until
2006.
Hödicke’s new forms of painting and sculpture and the subtle humor of his work
influenced several generations of artists and thus shaped the Berlin art community
over the long run.
The exhibition and catalog are made possible with the generous support of
Förderverein Berlinische Galerie e.V.
Fred Thieler Prize for Painting 2013
22.02.–13.05.2013
Endowed with 10,000 euros, the art prize is presented in the Berlinische Galerie
every two years. The artists receiving the award are always based in Germany, but
their creative work can be said to have an international impact.
Prize-winners from 1992 to 2011: Eugen Schönebeck, Peter Bömmels, Lothar
Böhme, Andreas Brandt, Reinhardt Pods, Jan Kotík +, K. H. Hödicke, Walter Libuda,
A. K. Dolven, Peter Herrmann, Marwan, Katharine Grosse, Cornelia Schleime, Günter
Umberg, Bernd Koberling, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Pia Fries and Bernhard Frize.
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K. H. Hödicke: Negligé,
1965, © VG Bild-Kunst,
Bonn, 2012
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Vienna, Berlin: Art of Two Urban Centers
From Klimt to Grosz
26.10.2013–27.01.2014
A joint presentation of Berlinische Galerie and Österreichische
Galerie Belvedere Wien
Opening 25.10.2013 at 7 pm
For the first time, Berlinische Galerie and Österreichische Galerie Belvedere will
present the central works of Viennese and Berlin modernism in a large-scale show,
from the Secessions in both cities to expressionism and New Objectivity. By
combining masterpieces from both collections with works that until now have not
been granted much attention, the show will provide a comprehensive look at the
intense exchange that took place between these two major urban centers at the start
of the twentieth century.
Vienna and Berlin: a strong cultural link bound these two cities beginning in the
nineteenth century and lasting for decades. While the exchanges that took place in
the realms of literature, theater, and music are well known, the ca. 200 pieces of this
exhibition show that a vital dialog also took place between visual artists in the two
cities, shaping the course of classical modernism: a dialog that until now has not
received much attention.
The holdings of these two institutions are well suited to bringing aspects of this link
to the public eye. This includes the reception of the Berlin Secession around Max
Liebermann in Germany and Gustav Klimt’s Secession in Vienna and the meager
reception of the Dadaism in Austria, the influential Berlin stays of numerous Vienna
artists after the First World War, and Vienna’s own forms of new objectivity. By
combining the works that come from the specific intellectual milieus of these sister
cities, the exhibition is intended as a contribution to the study of urban culture.
Artists in the exhibition include Hans Baluschek, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George
Grosz, Carry Hauser, Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Höch, Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner, Erika
Giovanna Klien, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Broncia Koller-Pinell, Max Liebermann,
Jeanne Mammen, Ludwig Meidner, Koloman Moser, Max Oppenheimer, Emil Orlik,
Christian Schad, Egon Schiele, and Max Slevogt.
The exhibition is made possible with the generous support of Stiftung Deutsche
Klassenlotterie Berlin.
From the collection:
“The Destroyed City Was My Chance”
Hilde Weström on Her 100 th Birthday
26.09.2012–25.02.2013
Hilde Weström (born on Oct. 31, 1912), together with Ilse Balg or Vera Meyer-
Waldeck, is one of the few female architects who successfully participated in the
reconstruction of Berlin after the war. One of the first women accepted into the Bund
Deutscher Architekten in 1948, she founded her own firm in 1949. She then
participated in numerous competitions together with colleagues such as Wils Ebert,
Werner Düttmann, or Paul Baumgarten. Her wide-ranging oeuvre, which she created
until her retirement in 1981, shows Weström’s engagement with a present marked by
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner:
Frauen auf der Straße,
1915, Von der Heydt-
Museum Wuppertal,
© Dr. Wolfgang &
Ingeborg Henze-Ketterer,
Wichtrach/Bern
Hilde Weström, Planufer Berlin-
Kreuzberg 1951/52,
© Photography: Friedhelm
Hoffmann
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transformation and the foundational principles of new construction. Her untiring
commitment to a social, individually adaptable living has made her widely known. In
1957, her designs for model apartments were presented as pioneering at the
exhibition „Die Stadt von Morgen”, part of „Internationale Bauaustellung” Berlin.
Selected photographs, drawings, and models from the architect’s own papers
alongside loans from the Verborgenes Museum and private collections will provide
insights into the life and work of this unusual pioneer of architecture.
From the Collection:
Art in Berlin, 1933-1938
Contribution to the Berlin Thematic Year: “Destroyed Diversity”
30.01.2013–12.08.2013
Since its founding, Berlinische Galerie has considered one of its foremost tasks to
collect works of those artists who were persecuted or severely limited in their
freedom to work after the Nazis rose to power. On the occasion of the Berlin theme
year 2013 “destroyed diversity,” forgotten and discredited artists are the focus of
attention, such as Jankel Adler, Lou Albert-Lasard, Gottfried Heinersdorff, Rudolf
Jacobi, Peter Lipman-Wulf, Anne Ratkowski, Joachim Ringelnatz, their gallerists and
collectors, and the architecture critic Werner Hegemann. They were banned from their
professions, driven into exile, or murdered, and their work was forgotten due to Nazi
cultural policy.
Berlinische Galerie looks back at the broken careers and destroyed livelihoods brought
about by Nazi rule. Works by and documents related to these artists will be shown in
the context of works from the collection, alongside works by Max Beckmann, Otto
Dix, Otto Freundlich, Naum Gabo, Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Höch, Jeanne Mammen,
Ludwig Meidner, Felix Nussbaum, Erich Salomon, Arthur Segal and Hans Uhlmann,
some of the collection’s main works.
From the Collection:
Visionaries: Paul Scheerbart, Paul Goesch, Friedrich Schröder
Sonnenstern
30.05.2013–30.09.2013
This presentation of works from the Grafische Sammlung at Berlinische Galerie will
focus on outsiders and visionaries in twentieth century art. They share their very
different individual positions: they make no distinction between external perception
and subjective introversion. Visionary images rely on what is not empirical or rationally
clear. They poach in the nocturnal or dream zones of our understanding and are
committed to a different reality that has its starting point in everyday life, but at the
same time goes beyond it.
The exhibition includes drawings by the pre-Dada writer and inventor Paul Scheerbart
(1863–1915) as well as drawings from the 1950s by the Berlin original and fantastic
realist Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern (1892–1982). A selection of the extensive
collection of watercolors by architect Paul Goesch (1885–1940), who became ill in
1921 and produced his art in an asylum, will also be shown.
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Otto Freundlich,
Komposition, 1926,
© Photography: Kai-Annett
Becker
Paul Goesch, Ohne Titel, vor
1921, © Photography: Peter
Oszwald
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COLLECTION
Art in Berlin 1880–1980
Presentation of the Collection
The Berlinische Galerie collects art produced in Berlin since 1870. The museum
presents internationally acclaimed works from the fields of painting, graphic art,
sculpture, photography and architecture in new exhibition architecture designed by
the Berlin architectural office of David Saik. The chronological presentation of our
masterpieces reflects the interdisciplinary orientation of the collection and
communicates an exciting dialogue among different artistic styles: Art around 1900,
Expressionism, Berlin Dada, the Eastern European Avant-Garde, New Objectivity, Art
in the National Socialist Era, the New Beginning after 1945, and Positions of the
1970s.
Selection of artists: Anton von Werner, Max Liebermann, Heinrich Zille, Lovis Corinth,
Max Beckmann, Ludwig Meidner, Hannah Höch, Raoul Hausmann, Iwan Puni, Otto
Bartning, Naum Gabo, El Lissitzky, Otto Dix, Jeanne Mammen, Erich Salomon, Felix
Nussbaum, Karl Hofer, Georgij Petrussov, Werner Heldt, Hans Uhlmann, Fred Thieler,
Hermann Henselmann, Le Corbusier, Georg Baselitz, Eugen Schönebeck, K.H.
Hödicke, Ralf Schüler und Ursulina Schüler-Witte, Georg Heinrichs, and Michael
Schmidt
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Otto Möller: Straßenlärm,
1920, © Christoph Möller,
Diessen/Ammersee
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