Eröffnung: From Dawn Till Dusk. Der Schatten in der Kunst der Gegenwart

In the organizer's words:

Cordial invitation to the opening of the exhibition

FROM DAWN TILL DUSK: THE SHADOW IN CONTEMPORARY ART

With this exhibition, the Kunstmuseum Bonn traces, for the first time in a German museum, the emancipation of the shadow as an image-giving, yet always media-reflective theme within contemporary art on the basis of around 40 international positions.

The exhibition examines the spectrum of shadow worlds, ranging from the existential to the threatening to the political. The shadow is where the absent and the present meet. It symbolically and immaterially refers to the existence of the material world and at the same time also contains its extinction. It belongs to the body, from which it is at the same time always at a distance. It is a trace that, like photography, functions as an index and at the same time is a projection surface that claims its own reality. In this context, the shadow can be read on the one hand as a metaphor for the crisis of the subject, but also as an important indicator of a reality beyond the superficially visible.

Participating artists (selection): Vito Acconci, David Claerbout, Marlene Dumas, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Jenna Gribbon, William Kentridge, Astrid Klein, Farideh Lashai, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Gerhard Richter, Regina Silveira, Javier Telléz, Kara Walker, Jeff Wall, Sue Webster/Tim Noble.

The exhibition is supported by the Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne, the Sparda-Bank Foundation for Art, Culture and Social Affairs and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Price information:

Free admission on the opening evening, registration is not required.