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The artistic intervention The Evolutionary Optimism by the Ukrainian-Russian artist Aljoscha will premiere in the atrium of the building from 19 March to 11 September 2022, with a break from 25 April to 13 May 2022 between changing exhibitions.   I am showing a site-specific installation entitled "Evolutionary Optimism“ at the 'Bucerius Kunst Forum' in Hamburg. This controv...

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ALJOSCHA   Art in the museum and living nature seem to be in contradiction. The so-called Lettner-room of the cathedral museum is dominated by the monumental sandstone choir screen that separated the cathedral chapter room from the lay room in the cathedral. Almost 500 years ago, sculptors used inanimate material to create a picture wall that focuses on the crucified Christ as the epitome of human hope for...

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With Francesco Barocco, Sandra Boeschenstein, Marsha Cottrell, Dagmara Genda, Stella Geppert, Hanna Hennenkemper, Birgit Hölmer, Veronika Holcová, Britta Lumer, Hartmut Neumann, Boryana Petkova, Oliver Thie, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Irene Weingartner, Nicole Wendel, Wolfgang Zach. 11th March – 26th June 2022     The group exhibition Gulliver’s Sketchbook takes t...

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Gazing of Tranquility: Italian Contemporary Sculpture Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China The exhibition –8 March till 8 May 2022– is showing sculptures by Italian artist Gehard Demetz and seven of his colleagues from Val Gardena in Alto Adige. Two of the exhibits – Only the Princess Looks Normal from 2020 and 21 Grams from 2018 – were previously on view in the exhibition »Identities&la...

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Porträt. Photographs by Matthias Schaller at NRW-Forum   Reflective visors of astronaut helmets, desolate studios and abandoned offices in the Vatican: absence is the foundational motif in the work of photographer Matthias Schaller. He portrays people by avoiding their direct gaze. With some 100 works the exhibition presents the photographer’s unconventional portraits, which capture his limitles...

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For the second time, the NRW KULTURsekretariat (NRWKS) is awarding prizes to ten renowned artists from ten of the 21 member cities of the NRWKS. Next to Thomas Wrede, the prizes – awarded as scholarships and each endowed with 5,000 euros – went to Katharina Bosse (Bielefeld), Uwe Esser (Krefeld), Karin Geiger (Neuss), Peter Gros (Bochum), Stephanie Pech (Bonn), Werner Ryschawy (Gelsenkirche...

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LEIKO IKEMURA AQUI ESTAMOS – HERE WE ARE LA CIUTAT DE LES ARTS I LES CIENCIES | VALENCIA | OPEN EVERY DAY Poised like waterlilies, six public sculptures of Japanese-Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura hover over a blue pool of water that has long allowed an open view of architect Santiago Calatrava’s eye-shaped L'Hemisfèric. For Leiko Ikemura, the exhibition We are here / Aquí Estamos (until...

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OPENING: FRIDAY, 27.8., 5 PM   CITY C LEVERKUSEN | FRIEDRICH-EBERT-PLATZ 21 | 51373 LEVERKUSEN 8/27 – 10/31, 2021 | OPEN 24/7