The exhibition “In Light of the Infinite – Romanticism and the Present” explores aspects of Romanticism in contemporary art. In diverse artistic positions, including photographs, installations and videos by artists ranging from Marina Abramovic to José Maria Mellado and Bill Viola, the exhibition will explore contemporary artists’ romantic view of the world, people and art. According to a definition provided by Charles Baudelaire in 1848, “Anyone talking about Romanticism is talking about modern art, i.e. the intimacy, the spirituality, the colour and the search for the infinite - expressed through all of the means available to art”. Although the forms and images, as well as the means and the possibilities, have changed considerably, the desire to create art that can change the world is still just as much alive today as is the desire to personally experience becoming one with nature in an attempt to counterbalance the material world with something transcendental, the functional with something mysterious and the banal with something meaningful.
Darren Almond (1971); Donald Baechler (1956 - 2022); Stephan Balkenhol (1957); Georg Baselitz (1938); Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988); Joseph Beuys (1921 - 1986); Thomas Böing (1963); Karl Bohrmann (1928 - 1998); Herbert Brandl (1959); Christoph Brech (1964); Benjamin Butler (1975); Aleksandar Duravcevic (1970); Marcel Dzama (1974); Ulrich Erben (1940); India Evans; Laura Ford (1961); John Gerrard (1974); Tina Gillen (1972); Rodney Graham (1949 - 2022); Sharon Harper (1966); Jenny Holzer (1950); Vollrath Hopp; Rebecca Horn (1944); Kaoru Izima (1954); Claire Kerr; Anselm Kiefer (1945); Martin Kippenberger (1953 - 1997); Jiří Kolář (1914 - 2002); Ola Kolehmainen (1964); Kim Krans; Stefan Kürten (1963); Isa Lorenzo (1974); Robert Mapplethorpe (1946 - 1989); Sean Montgomery; David Nash (1945); Max Neumann (1949); Navid Nuur (1976); Satoshi Ohno (1980); Hans Op de Beeck (1969); Stas Orlovski (1969); Paul P. (1977); Roxy Paine (1966); Ester Partegàs (1972); Sigmar Polke (1941 - 2010); [Tal Rosenzweig] TAL R (1967); Tobias Rehberger (1966); Gerhard Richter (1932); Thomas Ruff (1958); David Scher (1952); Hans-Christian Schink (1961); Iris Margaretha Schomaker (1973); Stefan Sehler (1958); Doug & Mike Starn (1961); Wolfgang Tillmans (1968); Gert & Uwe Tobias (1973); Rudolf Wachter (1923 - 2011); Mark Wagner (1971); Brigitte Waldach (1966); Jeff Wall (1946); Matthias Weischer (1973); Tom Wesselmann (1931 - 2004); Rachel Whiteread (1963);
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