A Roman emperor meets an English pop star, Lucas Cranach’s Venus meets Benedikte Bjerre’s Chicken and Cindy Sherman’s sex dolls, horse-drawn carriages meet a giant flying machine. With these and other surprising encounters, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary.
This major exhibition not only features well-known highlights from the museum’s outstanding collection, but also presents numerous new donations to the public for the first time. Special “guests” have been invited to stage exciting dialogs on timeless yet highly topical themes in a particularly effective way: Fifteen historical works from the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig are juxtaposed with contemporary paintings, sculptures, and installations by internationally renowned artists, including Phyllida Barlow, Gauri Gill, Andreas Gursky, Michel Majerus, Jonathan Meese, Bruce Nauman, Panamarenko, Elizabeth Peyton, and many more – a veritable Who’s Who of contemporary art! The exhibition offers unusual perspectives on the body, sexuality and identity, family sensitivities, and social values such as freedom and equality; in fifteen chapters, it spans a thematic arc from the individual to the global.
With its cooperation with the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, the anniversary exhibition is a further sign of institutional solidarity, not least to strengthen art and culture in the region. The juxtaposition of works from both museums results in a lively examination of both the constants and the variations of our living environment.
Featuring:
Franz Ackermann, Nobuyoshi Araki, Richard Artschwager, Awst & Walther, Natalie Ball, Phyllida Barlow, Ute Behrend, Richard Billingham, Benedikte Bjerre, Hussein Chalayan, Serge Attukwei Clottey, Charles-Nicolas Cochin d. Ä., Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Tony Cragg, Lucas Cranach d. Ä., Domenico da Venezia, Emanuel de Witte, Jan Dibbets, John Dixon, Burhan Dogançay, Sophie Erlund, Jacques Fouquier, Frans Francken d. J., Sandra Gamarra Heshiki, Gilbert & George, Gauri Gill, Liam Gillick, Douglas Gordon, Andreas Gursky, Eberhard Havekost, Ulrich Hensel, Georg Herold, William Hogarth, Jörg Immendorff, Christian Keinstar, In Sook Kim, Jeff Koons, Mischa Kuball, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Robert Lebeck, Rebecca Lewis, Pia Linz, Ann Lislegaard, Sharon Lockhart, Michel Majerus, Anna Malagrida, Jonathan Meese, Mario Merz, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, Panamarenko, Elizabeth Peyton, Prajakta Potnis, Adam Putnam, Neo Rauch, Mariela Scafati, Thomas Schütte, Tejal Shah, Cindy Sherman, Antanas Sutkus, Stefan Thiel, Goran Tomcic, Mette Tronvoll, Luc Tuymans, Timm Ulrichs, Willem van Nieulandt, Hendrick van Steenwyck d. Ä., Mariana Vassileva, Tobias Verhaecht, Danh Vō, Abraham Willaerts, Thoralf Knobloch
