Dec 23, 2021 – Jan 3, 2022

Dear visitors, 
From December 23 until January 3, 2022 the gallery will be on Christmas vacation. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Nov 19, 2021

Can an image be both crude and seductive at the same time? Is there a “charm of the totalitarian”? And who lies more blatantly, Vladimir Putin or Mark Zuckerberg?

We are proud to announce that Thomas Ruff has designed this year’s artistic version of “Edition 46” published by Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine!

The magazine is included in the current issue of the Süddeutsche Zeitung and contains a captivating interview of the artist with Tobias Haberl. 

Video: Jonas Natterer

Nov 5, 2021 - Mär 6, 2022

The Museum Wiesbaden is presenting Slawomir Elsner, winner of the Otto Ritschl Prize 2020, with his first extensive solo museum exhibition. The exhibition "Precision and Chance" provides for the first time an overview of the artist's decisive milestones as well as the diversity of his work, which ranges from coloured pencil drawings in reference to Old Master paintings to abstract watercolor paintings.

Slawomir Elsner, Aus der Serie Just Watercolors (050), 2018, Photo: Sebastian Schobbert

Nov 12, 2021 - Aug 28, 2022

In the exhibition "Körper – Geste – Raum. Werke aus der Hilti Art Foundation", the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein is showing works by 22 artists that explore the interrelationship between body, gesture and space.

Leiko Ikemura, Sleep, 2020, glass, 15 x 27 x 18 cm, Edition 4/4, © Leiko Ikemura, VG Bild-Kunst 2021; Photo: Jörg von Bruchhausen

Sep 4, 2021 - Jan 9, 2022

The exhibition "Oil. Beauty and Horror of the Petroleum Age" takes a speculative, poetic look back at the present of petroleum modernity, which has lasted for about 100 years. From the distance of a hypothetical future, it asks what was typical about this time of ours, what was great and beautiful, what was ugly and terrible, and how all this is reflected in art and culture.

Thomas Struth, Blowout Preventer, Mountrail County, North Dakota 2010, 169,5 x 204,7 cm, Edition 7/10, © Thomas Struth

Nov 13, 2021 - Feb 20, 2022

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the LBBW Collection, outstanding works are presented in the exhibition "Now or Never - 50 Years of the LBBW Collection", thereby revealing the comprehensive spectrum of the collection in terms of content and media. Among others, works by Liam Gillick, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Schütte and Thomas Struth are on display.

Thomas Struth, Hester Street at Mulberry Street, New York 1978, silver gelatin print, 40,1 x 58,7 cm, © Thomas Struth

Oct 21, 2021 - unknown

In the first major monographic exhibition of Jeff Wall in the Washington, D.C., area since 1997, the Glenstone Museum exhibits nearly 30 works spanning five decades of the artist's career. This is the largest exhibition of the artist's work in the United States since his 2007 show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Room 2 of the pavilion displays the impressive range of the pioneering œuvre, from early pictures displayed in backlit lightboxes and black and white silver gelatin prints to more recent large-scale inkjet color prints.

Jeff Wall, Adrian Walker, artist, drawing from a specimen in a laboratory in the Department of Anatomy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1992, transparency in lightbox, 119 x 164 cm, AP, © Jeff Wall

Nov 6, 2021 - Feb 13, 2022

The group exhibition "TRUE PICTURES? ZEITGENÖSSISCHE FOTOGRAFIE AUS KANADA UND DEN USA" brings together over 30 Canadian and North American artists from three generations in a comprehensive show.

Rodney Grahan, Dead Flowers in My Studio 3, 2017, painted aluminum lightbox with transmounted chromogenic transparency, 121 x 98 x 17,8 cm, Edition 5/5

Jul 10, 2021 – Feb 20, 2022

"IN FLUX" is the first presentation of the artist's work in Spain. Curated by Neus Miró, this exhibition assembles three major installations that are particularly significant in the artist's career: "Plus Ultra" (2009), "Untitled" (2011) and "The Nature of the Beast" (2010). Alongside material found in archives and collections the works explore and reinterpret inherited narratives regarding historical events and figures.

Installation view at MUSAC (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León); © Goshka Macuga, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021

For PUBLIC FIGURE #2 – an annual project by Art in the City (Middelheim Museum) – artist Goshka Macuga (Poland, 1967) rejects the tradition of the “lone hero on his plinth.” Instead, the artist depicts a trans-historic collective of five women whose lives and work shaped and changed society and the arts. The new work pays homage to Chantal Akerman, pioneer cineaste and visual artist; Andrée Blouin, pan-African political activist and member of the first democratically elected government of post-independence Congo; Patricia De Martelaere, philosopher and professor; Marie Popelin, the first woman doctor in Law in Belgium; and Mathilde Schroyens, the first woman mayor of Antwerp.

Goshka Macuga, Figures of Absence, rubber, location: Stadspark, Rubensplei, Antwerpen, © Goshka Macuga, VG Bild-Kunst 2021

since Oct 10, 2020

Jeff Wall's works "The Thinker" and "The Giant," which reflect on the act of thinking, are currently on view at Kunsthalle Bielefeld, while "The Thinker" by Auguste Rodin, which has flanked the Kunsthalle's entrance since 1968, is on tour as a loan.

Jeff Wall, The Thinker, 1986, Transparency in lightbox, 216 x 229 cm, 1 AP