Current
»LandschaftsPartie - Simon Halfmeyer, Hanna Nitsch, Felix Rehfeld, Julia Schmid and Martin Schwenk«
Opening: Friday, April 30, 2010, 7 p.m.
Opening remarks: Corona Unger, art historian, Bremen
The exhibition title combines the German terms for landscape and a country outing. On the one hand it references the Romantic tradition of a day in country and touches upon the feeling of nostalgia, the subjectively colored sensations and experiences evoked by a trip to the countryside. In keeping with Romantic landscape painting, however, the exhibition is less concerned with as realistic a representation of nature as possible, but the perceptions and feelings triggered by encounters with nature instead.
But the title simultaneously also expresses a break, a skeptical pause for thought: Romantic painters had an integral vision. Romantic landscape paintings open a window for the viewer to the long-lost harmony between the human being and nature. The artists participating in the exhibition particularly visualize the disintegration of this order into fragments. While they concentrate on details that reference a context of nature by means of various artistic media, the much longed for perfection remains elusive. Alienated, fitted with new links, the fragments and set pieces gain a life of their own. In a tension field spanning diverse artistic traditions as well as scientific methodologies, the artists in the exhibition – Simon Halfmeyer/Düsseldorf, Hanna Nitsch/Braunschweig, Felix Rehfeld/Munich, Julia Schmid/Hannover, Martin Schwenk/Düsseldorf – make new and unusual insights about nature and landscape accessible to the viewer.
Duration of the exhibition:
May 05, 2010 to July 30, 2010
Opening hours of the gallery:
Wednesday: 10 am – 6.30 pm
Thursday: 2 pm – 6.30 pm
Friday: 10 am – 6.30 pm
Saturday: 11 am – 2 pm
And by appointment.
From July 6th to August 15th the gallery will be closed on Saturdays (opening times during the week remain as usual)
Next Exhibition:
Franziska Stünkel
»Seven Billion Stories«
Opening:
Friday, August 20, 2010, 7. p.m.
Introduction remarks:
Dr. Alexander Tolnay, former director of NBK Berlin