Talk with the curators of Art et Liberté. Rupture, War and Surrealismus in Egypt (1938-48).
Interview with the curator of "Marcel Broodthaers. A retrospective"
When art and the sound installation encounter another in space
For #32, Noura Dirani describes the relationship between this musician and the fine arts, and presents a track produced specifically for the Gursky exhibition at the K20.
The Kunstsammlung Prepares a Catalogue Raisonné for Günther Uecker
For #32 by Stefan Lüddemann
On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition "Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting" at the K21 Ständehaus, Gerd Korinthenberg met with the President of the Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini Collezione Burri.
Jackson Pollock's "Number 32" appears with new radiance after cleaning by restorers
A report for #32 by Gerd Korinthenberg
Buried within the exhibition Miró: Painting As Poetry is a minor sensation. The presentation contains a hitherto unknown drawing by Joan Miró, a work that slumbered for decades unrecognized in the holdings of a corporate collection.
For #32 by Valerie Hortolani
Before going on tour, including a stop at the Kunstsammlung am Grabbeplatz, a major exhibition featuring the works of the US-American artist Agnes Martin opens in London.
Behind the scenes for #32 by Maria Müller-Schareck
Miró's Stool Rediscovered Stefan Lüddemann writes for #32 on the discovery of a family treasure that merits special attention, and is displayed in the exhibition “Miró: Painting As Poetry” alongside the four Miró works from the collection of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Joan Miró (1893-1983) and Marimba Williamson share something in common: a love of literature. For #32, Williamson – who selected the books jointly with the curators, procured them, and prepared them for display in the K20 – answers three questions about the artist’s reading habits.
Kazuhiro Yamamoto (*1958) lives and works in Nasu-Plateau and Utsunomiya City and is senior curator at the Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts and vice chairperson of standing committee of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) JAPAN.
On Günther Uecker and Japan for #32.
On restoring a double-sided painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
By painting conservator Anne Skaliks for #32.
For #32 photographer Andreas Endermann has made some great shots with Günther Uecker of the exhibition's set up which he accompanied with the camera.
Over the past year, the conservator Nina Quabeck has supervised the comprehensive restoration of Thomas Hirschhorn’s “Intensif-Station” (Intensive Care) at the K21. For #32, we asked about the individual phases of this process.
A fragile mirrored surface measuring 100 m², already broken at one or two locations, and resting upon it, a heavy black steel scaffolding by means of which visitors can enter and circumnavigate the space: on view at the K21 beginning on November 22nd will be Antonia Low's artist's space A Room Recalls.
In October, assisted by an international crew consisting of marionettists, stage designers, lighting technicians, assistants, cinematographers, and a professional film production firm, Wael Shawky launched the shooting of the third part of Cabaret Crusades at the K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen.
#32 has had a look behind the scenes.
As museum visitors doubtless suspect, when extraordinary – and exceptionally valuable – works of art travel, it generally involves special measures and logistics – one reason why a 3Sat television team followed Klee's "Legend of the Nile" of 1937 from the Kunstmuseum in Bern all the way to Düsseldorf.
When each of became aware of the other's exhibition project, both instantly became curious: A conversation about the exhibitions "Beneath the Earth" and "Über Unterwelten" (On Underworlds) between the curators Kathrin Beßen and Dr. Eckhard Schinkel
An initial behind the scenes look: the Egyptian artist Wael Shawky has set up his studio in the F3 Schmela Haus of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, where he is at work intensively completing his video trilogy Cabaret Crusades.
with Jan Köchermann in the underpass, with Phillip Schulze in the sewer system
For #32, Valerie Hortolani reports on the symposium, providing an overview of the topics presented and the current state of the research
What was that again about the Düssel and the Rhein? When Düsseldorfer natives, newcomers, and part-timers meet for a joint city tour, they can't necessarily rely on geographic orientation down to the nearest meter. Fortunately, GPS technology comes to the rescue: equipped with smartphones and tablets, and drenched by a summer rainstorm, we test out the mobile mapping game STADT UNTER! (CITY BELOW!).
Currently the Egyptian artist Wael Shawky (born in 1971) is working on Murano in the middle of the Venetian Lagoon on the third part of his marionette epic, which narrates the history of the medieval crusades from an Arab perspective.
We met Marion Ackermann and Olafur Eliasson at their first tour through the exhbitions at K20 [part 2].
Cécile Girardeau has accompanied the exhibition "Beneath the Earth: From Kafka to Kippenbeger" in the K21 Ständehaus for several weeks as a project assistant. She characterizes the role of utopia in art for #32.
Artist Olafur Eliasson developed the project Dein Ausstellungsguide for the K20. We met Marion Ackermann and Olafur Eliasson at their first tour through the exhibition [Part 1].
In May, when Alexander Gerst flies to the international space station ISS, he will become the eleventh German astronaut to conduct research in orbit, admiring our blue planet from a tremendous height. The Mönchengladbach native Reinhold Ewald has already enjoyed the experience of real orbit, and now investigates the installation of the same title in the K21. For #32, Gerd Korinthenberg accompanies this experienced space traveler in the net.
What is concealed beneath the paint layers, beneath the surface of the work of art? How are works investigated for their authenticity without endangering them by removing testing materials? Jessica Lunk, Nina Quabeck, and Anne Skaliks, all conservators at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, have joined forces with specialists from the Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences (CICS).
“It doesn't always have to be about oil on canvas”: on the occasion of the exhibition “Gerhard Richter: Art in the Plural,” which is a guest for three weeks in the K20 am Grabbeplatz, we spoke with the art historian Hubertus Butin on the editions of the most successful German artist of our time.
How do war-damaged instruments sound? In order to realize her exhibition The Missing String, Turner Prize-winner Susan Philipsz (* 1965) engaged in research about damaged and nearly destroyed instruments.