Presentation of the collection
The presentation takes a comprehensive look at the collection of contemporary art, which is presented from different perspectives in twenty rooms. In addition to painting, installations, film and photography are also on display. The exhibition includes important works for the profile of the collection as well as new acquisitions, donations and loans from private collections. It combines monographic and thematic groups of works from Sigmar Polke to Monika Baer, from Tamara Grcic, Shannon Bool, Norbert Schwontkowski to John Bock. The result is a complex parcours of works: outer and inner spaces are to be explored, are mapped, opened up into uncertain interiors, the body is declared a combat zone, faces are transformed into masks, the self plays various roles. Painting presents itself as a tangled fabric and smooth surface, orderly and disorderly superimposition, an alchemical fusion of exoticism and popular culture. Materials engage in extended conversations, photo series collect the world in flexible memories, painting and photography examine the simultaneity of the clear and the indistinct. The museum becomes a "space for imaginative actions" (Albert Oehlen).
WITH WORKS BY: Adam Adach, Horst Antes, Thomas Arnolds, John Bock, Jadé Fadojutimi, Max Frintrop, Bruno Goller, Tamara Grcic, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Maximilian Kirmse, Jürgen Klauke, Michel Majerus, Albert Oehlen, Ulrich Rückriem, Kristina Schuldt, Norbert Schwontkowski.
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