28 November 2009 - 28 February 2010

Dance in My Experience

The exhibition "Dance in My Experience" poses the question: what became of those often times utopian ideas from 1968 and doesn't take an historical line of argument, but highlights instead recent contemporary works that look back from today's perspective to the revolutionary ideas of that time. What remains of these ideas and ideals? What can be considered to be an expression of the period and conversely, what can be regarded as timeless?
A group show with works by: Manon de Boer, Henning Bohl, Tom Burr, Claire Fontaine, Brice Dellsperger, Josephine Meckseper, Michaela Meise, Aleksandra Mir, Hanna Schwarz

DUBAI DÜSSELDORF

What if, in this era of globalization, not only corporations from different countries and continents merged but cities as well? Which synergies might such a fusion generate? Which imaginations and energies might the mere announcement unleash?

GERMAINE KRUIP

Aesthetics as a Way of Survival

The solo exhibition of the Dutch artist Germaine Kruip (born 1970) will present new artworks especially created for the show. Upon entering the stage-like spaces—equipped with minimal means—Kruip makes the viewer the actual agent in her spatial interventions. She confronts the viewer with the question of the relationship between fiction and reality, authenticity and representation. Are we dealing with representations of reality or constructs, portrayals or inventions?

7 February - 10 May 2009

ISABELLE CORNARO

Cornaro's sculptures, drawings and installations revolve around the organisation of perspectives, distance and proximity, as well as the interplay between figurative, symbolic and real space. The way in which landscape is perceived coupled with the cultural over-accentuation of nature play a central role here. In particular French landscape gardens from the 18th Century and their treatment in painting provide the starting point for her consideration of fundamental questions of representation and perception, the constructive over-accentuation of our world and the relationship between the representational and the abstract.