20. März - 24. Mai 2010
Florian Pumhösl
Mit der Ausstellung von Florian Pumhösl präsentiert der Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen einen österreichischen Künstler, dessen Werke an Vorstellungen des raumgreifenden Ensembles verschiedener Künste anknüpfen. Charakteristisch für Florian Pumhösls Arbeitsweise ist die Infragestellung der Hierarchie zwischen der eigenen Autorschaft und ihren Bezugsquellen, dem was er an historischer Referenz oder konkreter Anleihe aufnimmt und dem, was er selbst darstellen kann. Im Zentrum der Ausstellung steht der 24-teilige Zyklus Bewegliche Bühne, der in den Jahren 2008-2010 entstand und nun erstmalig komplett zu sehen sein wird.
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
29 August - 8 November 2009
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?
29 August - 8 November 2009
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.