The exhibition year 2022 at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf

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Art Calendar, 3. February 2022 by Francesca Morelli

The exhibition year 2022 at the

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf

The Walther Collection

Nontsikelelo (Lolo) Veleko, Nonkululeko, 2003

©The artist. Courtesy the artist,

The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/New York, and Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg.

Impressive exhibitions await at the Kunstsammlung NRW in 2022!

It is an international selection of established masters and dynamic young artists. One highlight is certainly the exhibition of Gerhard Richter's „Birkenau“-Zyklus. The revered painter, who teaches at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, turns 90 on February 9 2022. His „Birkenau“-Zyklus will be shown once again in Düsseldorf before traveling to Japan and later coming to Berlin's National Gallery.

The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is the art collection of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the state capital Düsseldorf. It spreads its treasure trove of artworks over 3 buildings in the city, the K20 at Grabbeplatz 5, the K21 in the Ständehaus at Ständehausstrasse 1, and the Schmela-Haus at Mutter-Ey-Strasse 3.

Some critics also refer to the Kunstsammlung NRW as Germany's secret national gallery. Highlights of the collection are works by Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol or installations by Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik. The focus of the collection is on classical modernism. The K20 also has a library with literature on the art of the 20th and 21st centuries, comprising over 100,000 volumes.

To the year 2022 in the Kunstsammlung NRW

K20

Georges Braque. Inventor of Cubism

25.9.2021 - 23.1.2022

The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen pays tribute to Georges Braque as a pioneering artist of the French avant-garde. The exhibition focuses on the most important years of his oeuvre, on the particularly exciting and eventful early work between 1906 and 1914.

For eight years before World War I, the young Georges Braque (1882 - 1963), together with his friend Pablo Picasso, shaped what was perhaps the most revolutionary stage in the history of modern painting: Cubism. Landscapes and still lifes are his motifs. The exhibition shows how Braque further developed or reinvented the stylistic means. Fauvism, Pre-Cubism, Analytical Cubism, "papiers collés" and Synthetic Cubism follow one another. The speed and intensity of the stylistic changes continue to amaze today. The exhibition uses Braque's work to show the exemplary path of modern art from the representational to the abstracted reproduction of reality. Around 60 masterpieces from international museums, private collections and the holdings of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen are brought together.

K20

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Flying in association with the night

16.10.2021 - 13.2.2022

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b. London 1977) is a painter. She creates fictional figures that move in enigmatic spaces that usually remain indeterminate. Time seems to be at a standstill: People rest, walk, look, dance, talk, laugh, and converse, just as people do, and always have. Her figurative paintings and drawings feed from a variety of sources: the study of life, photographs, and collections of found images. Working in oil on canvas or rough linen, she focuses primarily on developing a language of painting, drawing, color, scale, and composition.

In addition, Yiadom-Boakye writes prose and poetry.The exhibition presented in the Henkel Hall of K20 brings together paintings from 2003 to 2020.

Lygia Pape. The Skin of ALL

Lygia Pape, “Ttéia 1C” - 2001/2016, Silver thread, wood, nails and light, Installation view of ‘Lygia Pape’ at Hauser & Wirth London, 2016

K20

Lygia Pape. The Skin of ALL

19.3. - 17.7.2022

The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen dedicates the first solo exhibition in Germany to the Brazilian modernist Lygia Pape (1927 - 2004). Entitled "The Skin of ALL", the exhibition presents the artist's multifaceted, transnational oeuvre, which she continuously developed over five decades on the basis of her irrepressible joy in experimentation.

It includes abstract-geometric paintings, drawings, reliefs, unique woodcuts, two ballet compositions, sculptures, poems as well as experimental films, immersive spatial installations or collective performances and explorations of public space.

Together with Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape was one of the key figures of the neo-concrete movement of the 1950s and 1960s in Brazil.

Reinhard Mucha

©muchaBureau 2021

K20K21

Reinhard Mucha

3.9.2022 - 22.1.2023

Reinhard Mucha's work, with its redefinition of sculpture, photography and installation, is considered one of the most important positions in contemporary art. With the exhibition of the artist, who was born in Düsseldorf in 1950, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen brings together at its two locations, K20 and K21, long unseen installations with works from all creative phases, thus creating a panorama that spans over forty years of artistic work.

Piet Mondrian. Evolution

Piet Mondrian, New York City I, 1941, Öl und Papier auf Leinwand, 120 x 115,2 x 2,7 cm

K20

Piet Mondrian. Evolution

29.10.2022 - 12.2.2023

Many know the painter Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944) as the creator of strict geometric compositions in black and white with selected fields in red, blue or yellow. That the Dutchman in his first decades chose landscapes and other contemporary motifs and often staged them with surprising colorfulness, is hardly known. The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen shows Mondrian's artistic path from his early work to his completely abstract works and traces the connections between the different groups of pictures.

From the beginning of his artistic career, Mondrian was searching for the ideal composition. In his opinion, it consisted in the perfect balance of all pictorial elements. The artist found motifs such as the windmill, the lighthouse, the dunes by the sea and the water in which farms and rows of trees are reflected in his homeland. The selection of works provides insight into his work in the studio and the autonomous play with colors and forms that he tried out with the help of cubist stylistic elements before turning to complete abstraction in the early 1920s.

K21

Marcel Odenbach. Like this or like that

9.10.2021 - 6.2.2022

The artist Marcel Odenbach (* 1953), who lives in Cologne, Berlin and temporarily in Biriwa, Ghana, has been working with video since 1976. His filmic collages, installations and performances have contributed to video art being the central medium of international contemporary art today. Parallel to this, an extensive body of works on paper has been created over more than four decades, ranging from drawings and concept plans to large collages.

Odenbach reflects on the visual politics of RAF terrorism, deals with the repression of the Nazi era and the resurgence of anti-Semitism, and questions clichés of the foreign and exotic. In his works, he illuminates the impact and after-effects of European colonialism in Africa; for example, he examines the genocide in Rwanda or the persistence of colonial structures in today's Togo.

K21

Gerhard Richter. Birkenau Zyklus, drawings, overpainted photos

18.12.2021 - 24. 4. 2022

In his six decades of work, Gerhard Richter (*1932) has dealt several times with the subject of the Holocaust and the representability of the crimes of National Socialism. It was not until his "Birkenau" Zyklus, created in 2014, that the artist found a way of dealing with and a form for the subject. The work is based on four photographs that were secretly taken by prisoners of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp at the risk of their lives.

In the first step, Gerhard Richter transferred the photographs onto canvases on an enlarged scale. When the result did not meet his expectations, he began to paint over them until finally the figuration disappeared.

These four abstract paintings are shown together with four gray mirrors hanging opposite the paintings and the prints of the four photos from the concentration camp in an installation characterized by reflections, references and references.

The Walther Collection

Nontsikelelo (Lolo) Veleko, Nonkululeko, 2003

©The artist. Courtesy the artist, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/New York, and Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg.

K21

Look at Me. Photography from The Walther Collection

Apr. 9-Sept. 25, 2022.

From April 9 - September 25, 2022, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, in collaboration with The Walther Collection, presents the largest-ever presentation of the New Ulm and New York-based collection in Germany.

"Look at Me" presents photographic works from Africa and the global diaspora that exemplify the conception and history of the photographic medium at the heart of the extensive The Walther Collection. As a non-profit foundation, this has been dedicated to the critical exploration of photography and media art in worldwide exhibitions and scholarly publications since the early 2000s.

K20

Grabbeplatz 5

40213 Düsseldorf

K21

Ständehausstrasse 1

40217 Duesseldorf

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By Francesca Morelli, 3. Februrary 2022