Bildnisse von Paula Modersohn-Becker bis Zanele Muholi
Opening
Aug 21, 2022 at 06:00 pm
Start date
Aug 21, 2022
End date
Jan 29, 2023
The exhibition "Strangers to Ourselves" explores questions of (self-) depiction and representation in the visual arts since the end of the 19th century.
Major works from Von der Heydt Museum% collections show the ways in which roles defined by societal preconceptions ore inscribed in Images of human beings, and the effect this has an how they are perceived. The exhibition covers a broad range of works, from classical modern paintings by Paula Modersohn-Becker, Emmy Klinker, Toulouse-Lautrec, Christian Schad and Felix Vallotton, to works by Wols, Francis Bacon and Miriam Cahn, and up to the present day, represented by Tobias Zielony and Zanele Muholi, among others.
The title of the exhibition is taken from Julia Kristevo's 1990 book of the same narre. According to her central thesis, we are strangers to each other and resent each other to the same ex-tent that we are strangers to ourselves - and so it shall remain. This is precisely the point the philosopher recognizes as key in dealing with the concept of otherness.
The works in the exhibition reveal how a person's perception is guided or influenced by the staging of an image. In Paula Modersohn-Becker's figure portraits, the individual is abstracted in order to achieve generalization, Francis Bacon depicts human ex¬tremes and man's vulnerability in the world. Zanele Muholi's impactful self-portraits play subtly with gender-specific conventions and, in the sense of a visual activism, aim to dissolve repressive narratives.
Bernd (1931-2007) & Hilla (1934-2015) Becher; Kristleifur Björnsson (1973); Karl Blossfeldt (1865 - 1932); Georg Böttger (1821 - 1901); Karl Wilhelm Both (1801 - 1870); Renata Bracksieck (1900 - 1992); Natalie Czech (1976); Jan Dibbets (1941); [Josef Maria Eder 1855-1944 & Eduard Valenta 1857-1937] Eder & Valenta; Franz Leonard Elfert (1998); Claudia Fährenkemper (1959); Hanna Josing; Alex Grein (1983); Andreas Gursky (1955); Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl (1804 - 1877); Erik Kessels (1966); Heinrich [Jindřich] Koch (1896 - 1934); Jochen Lempert (1958); Rosa Menkman (1983); Duane Michals (1932); Joanna Nencek; Floris Michael Neusüss (1937); Georg Pahl (1900 - 1963); Trevor Paglen (1974); W. Paulcker; Sigmar Polke (1941 - 2010); Seth Price (1973); Timm Rautert (1941); Amanda Ross-Ho (1975); Evan Roth (1978); Thomas Ruff (1958); August Sander (1876 - 1964); Adrian Sauer (1976); Morgaine Schäfer (1989); Hugo Schmölz (1879 - 1938); Karl Hugo Schmölz (1917 - 1986); Katharina Sieverding (1944); Kathrin Sonntag (1981); Lucia Sotnikova; Simon Starling (1967); Clare Strand (1973); Carl Strüwe (1898 - 1988); Andrzej Steinbach (1983); Julius Stinde (1841 - 1905); Anna Stüdeli (1990); Wolfgang Tillmans (1968); Moritz Wegwerth (1981); René Zuber (1902 - 1979);
Linda Conze;
Photographische Konzepte und Kostbarkeiten – Sammlungspräsentation
Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur
, Germany
Köln,
Germany
Jean Eugène Auguste Atget (1857 - 1927); Lawrence Larry Beck (1962); Laurenz Berges (1966); Karl Blossfeldt (1865 - 1932); Ursula Böhmer (1965); Christian Borchert (1942 - 2000); Natascha Borowsky (1964); Hans Eijkelboom (1949); Folkwang-Auriga Verlag; Bernhard Fuchs (1971); Candida Höfer (1944); Fred Koch (1904); August Kotzsch (1836 - 1910); Andreas Mader (1960); Francesco Neri (1982); Simone Nieweg (1962); Gabriele & Helmut Nothhelfer (1945); Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897 - 1966); [Andrea Robbins *1963 & Max Becher *1964] Robbins & Becher; Judith Joy Ross (1946); Martin Rosswog (1950); August Sander (1876 - 1964); Oliver Sieber (1966); Antanas Sutkus (1939); Jerry L. Thompson (1945); Albrecht Tübke (1971);
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