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BEATING WINGS. Insects in Contemporary Art July 7 to October 13, 2019 In cooperation with the Senckenberg Nature Museum Frankfurt   The relationship between humans and insects has always been ambivalent: usefulness and damage, curse and blessing, fascination and phobia come to mind. The pressing issue of the disappearance of insects, however, has changed human perspective on the little creatures: the...

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With twelve video installations video pioneer Fabrizio Plessi presents an impressive Homage to the thousand-year history of Rome in the 200 meters long underground vaults of the Thermae of Caracalla in Rome.   This spectacular installation offers a fascinating reflection on the elements of water and fire as part of the history of the Thermae of Caracalla and is accompanied with a composition by Michael Nym...

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»FACE TO FACE« Discussion, June 3, 6.30 pm between Dr. Christian Ring, Director of the ‘Ada & Emil Nolde Foundation’ Seebüll and Michael Beck   Dr. Christian Ring opened the archives of the Nolde Foundation and thus enabled the current critical 'Nolde'-exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. It is thanks to him that Nolde's proximity to National Soci...

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Participating artists: Karo Akpokiere, Art & Language, Alice Attie, Monica Bonvicini, Andrea Bowers, George Brecht, Daniela Comani, Guy Debord, Jeremy Deller, Willie Doherty, Sam Durant, Elmgren & Dragset, Öyvind Fahlström, Claire Fontaine, Jakob Kolding, Barbara Kruger, Aleksandra Mir, Adrian Piper, Pope L, Chris Reinecke, Allen Ruppersberg, Maruša Sagadin, Superflex, Ron Terada and Poet Ai,...

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Born in Leipzig in 1969, the painter and graphic artist Susanne Kühn is one of the most important figurative artists in Germany. Before moving to Freiburg im Breisgau in 2002, she spent many years in the USA. Since 2015, Kühn has been a professor of painting at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg. Her most recent work fluctuates between drawing and painting. For the past several years, she has made useof...

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On Thursday, 16 May at 7:30 pm, jazz legend Rolf Kühn and Informell painter Angelika Adam will inspire each other and react to each other in a painterly and music-making way, in a topical and direct way. (Support: Klaus Scheuermann, electronics and Tupac Mantilla, percussion).   Be a part of it! Please register for this event at our premises in Düsseldorf under 0211. 49 15 890 or event@beck-eg...

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The Japanese-Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura first caused a stir in Switzerland in the early 1980s with expressive and confrontational compositions that associated her with the Neue Wilde. She later rose to international renown with girlish figures unmoored from reality and cosmic landscapes populated by fabulous chimerical creatures. Japanese audiences celebrate her as an artist who wholeheartedly embraced Western art on...

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Works by Italian sculptor Gehard Demetz can be seen as of 5th April as part of a dual solo exhibition dedicated to him and Lithuanian artist Laisvydė Šalčiūtė at LaGalleria Arte Contemporanea in the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua.   Both artists in this exhibition use wood in order to create their figures: Demetz in the traditional medium of sculpture, Šalčiūtė with woodcuts transferred ontocanvas...