ELEMENTARTEILE
In the organizer's words:
BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE SPRENGEL MUSEUM HANNOVER AND ITS ART
13.4.19 UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2025
Extension building
To mark its 40th anniversary, the Sprengel Museum Hannover is presenting the exhibition ELEMENTARY PARTS in the extension building. What are the core components of the institution? What is art, and what does art consist of, what does it refer to, and what is it about? In ten themed rooms, the Sprengel Museum Hannover questions itself as an institution and its collection about such fundamental questions.
What role does color play as one of the basic building blocks of art, what materials do artists use, and what principles of form and design do they follow? To which reality(ies) do works between conceptual art, abstraction and figuration refer? What content plays a role, what stories are told, how is history reflected in art? ELEMENTARTEILE brings together more than 150 works from the 20th century and contemporary art and shows an impressively broad spectrum of expressive possibilities in painting, sculpture, graphic art, photography and film by artists such as Max Beckmann, Louise Bourgeois, Grethe Jürgens, Niki de Saint Phalle, Pablo Picasso and Gerhard Richter.
The Sprengel Museum hannover
On his 70th birthday, April 17, 1969, Bernhard Sprengel announced that he and his wife Margrit wanted to donate their joint collection to the state capital of Hanover. 10 years later, the "Kunstmuseum Hannover mit Sammlung Sprengel" (renamed "Sprengel Museum Hannover" in 1984) was opened, followed by a second construction phase in 1992 and an extension in 2015.
The Sprengel Museum Hannover houses all the holdings from the collections of the state capital of Hannover, the state of Lower Saxony and the Sprengel Collection that were created after 1900. In addition, there are holdings from the Kurt and Ernst Schwitters Foundation, the Kurt Schwitters Archive, the Lower Saxony Savings Bank Foundation, the Rudolf Jahns Foundation, the Bernhard Sprengel and Friends Foundation, the Hannover Re Foundation, the Fritz Behrens Foundation and various other foundations on permanent loan.
Curators: Reinhard Spieler and Stella Jaeger
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