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HOMEPLACE – A LOVE LETTER | ROTUNDENPROJEKT 2023/24
9 DECEMBER 2023 – 25 MARCH 2024 | The rising architects of Matri-Archi(tecture) bring their own and external experiences of life in the diaspora to the Pinakothek der Moderne. They foreground the construction of belonging far from home and the question of identity. For the forthcoming installation “Homeplace”, Matri-Archi(tecture) re-imagines and re-configures the Rotunda as […]
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GLITCH. THE ART OF INTERFERENCE
01. DECEMBER 2023 TO 17. MARCH 2024 | Cracked smartphone displays, distorted images, colourful pixel structures. Only when there is a malfunction is our attention directed to the nature of the technical media that surround us every day, without them, however, being shifted to the forefront. As one of the youngest and most unpredictable art […]
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KIKI SMITH - FROM MY HEART
03 NOVEMBER 2023 – 21 JANUARY 2024 | With its exhibition “From My Heart” the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München honors Kiki Smith’s special birthday on 18 January 2024. The Munich museum has close ties with the New York artist because Smith has been donating since 2015 and continues to donate her entire print oeuvre in editions […]
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MALELADE - GEORG BASELITZ ON HIS 85th BIRTHDAY
31 AUGUST 2023 – 22 OCTOBER 2023 | Rarely do we have the opportunity to peer over the shoulder, so to speak, of a graphic artist at work and witness the creation of a masterpiece we would normally only get to view once the artist has deemed it complete, ready to leave the studio. It […]
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BUILDING TO HEAL: New Architecture for Hospitals
MEDIA CONFERENCE: 11 JULY 2023, 11.00 A.M., IN THE PRESENCE OF CO-CURATOR TANJA C. VOLLMER OPENING: 11 JULY 2023, 07.00 P.M. EXHIBITION DURATION: 12 JULY UNTIL 21 JANUARY 2024 The architectural history of the hospital as a building type is long and complex and, in recent centuries, closely reflects rapid advances in medicine. In the […]
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Ashraf Hannah. SHARARAH
06 July 2023 TO 24 September 2023 | With his installation which was originally created for the Victoria & Albert-Museum in London, ceramic artist Ashraf Hanna (born 1967) references the “Arab Spring”. Part of this political upheaval was the “Egyptian Revolution” which was triggered by the protests on Tahrir Square in Cairo on January 25, […]
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Textile Worlds
21. JULY 2023 TO 03. OCTOBER 2023 | Die Neue Sammlung takes a look at 180 textiles spanning some 200 years, most of which are part of the museum’s extensive holdings. Not only does the exhibition consider the different uses, designs, and developments in textiles, it also documents the history of the museum’s textiles collection […]
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Paula Scher – Type is image
23 JUNE 2023 – 22 SEPTEMBER 2024 MEDIA CONFERENCE ATTENDED BY PAULA SCHER: 22 JUNE 2023, 11.00 OPENING ATTENDED BY PAULA SCHER: 22 JUNE 2023, 19.00 LOCATION: PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE, PATERNOSTERHALLE With “Paula Scher – Type is Image” Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum is showing the first solo exhibition by the American graphic […]
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BEAUTIFUL AND VULNERABLE. THE HUMAN FIGURE IN THE GARNERUS COLLECTION
15. JUNE 2023 TO 03. OCTOBER 2023 | More than almost any other collector, the art historian Hartwig Garnerus (*1943) focuses on the depiction of people in the period from Expressionism to Neue Sachlichkeit. In works by Hermann Blumenthal, Lovis Corinth, Otto Freundlich, Karl Hofer, Helmut Kolle, Carl Lohse, Marg Moll, Walther Ophey, Emy Roeder […]
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REI NAITO. BREATH
MEDIA INFORMATION Munich, 31 May 2023 REI NAITO. BREATH MEDIA CONFERENCE: 07 JUNE 2023, 11.00 A.M. ATTENDED BY THE ARTIST OPENING: 07 JUNE 2023, 6.30 P.M. DURATION OF EXHIBITION: 07 JUNE 2023 – 13 AUGUST 2023 breath is at once the title and the subject of the present installation. While we rarely pay attention to […]
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