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The photographic series Banoo by Samaneh Khosravi (b. 1984) addresses the position of women in Iran today. Despite decades of oppression by a male-dominated society, women are steadily gaining ground in science and the world of work. In order to obtain insight into the situation of women in Iran and how they see themselves, the Iranian-German photographer accompanied protagonists from various different social strata and locations in Iran throu...

Bears All Things (from the Finnish "Kaiken se kestää") is a lifelong art project by the artist couple Mammu and Pasi Rauhala. The project, which has taken place every year since 2013, comprises photographs of the artists going about their daily lives, from renovating their home to gardening - always in the same getup: their wedding attire. Their gestures and appearance, always very serious, are a nod to the tradition of the family portrait. Wi...

The exhibition catalogue Dreihundert Berge (Three Hundred Mountains) comprises a select one hundred paintings by the Chinese artist Haiying Xu (b. 1975). In her work, Xu, who came to Germany more than two decades ago, continues to explore issues of personal identity at the tense interface between heritage, homeland, and migration. Haiying Xu's memories of the traditional cultures of southeastern China give rise to a reinterpretation of childho...

In 2024, the Kunstmuseum Reutlingen | konkret will be showing the major collection exhibition "Bernard Aubertin: Rouge et plus". The French painter, a member of the ZERO group known for his monochrome works in the color red, spent many years in Reutlingen. It was there that he created his large-scale wall and room-filling works. However, the exhibition also clearly demonstrates that Bernard Aubertin (1934-2015), known as "le rouge, " should no...

Hans Uhlmanns (1900-1975) Metallplastiken und Zeichnungen prägten das Bild deutscher Nachkriegsmoderne. Von den Nationalsozialist*innen 1933 inhaftiert, entwarf er im Gefängnis Skizzen filigraner Drahtköpfe, die er nach seiner Entlassung verwirklichte. In den 1950er-Jahren entwickelten sich seine figurativen Formen zu abstrakten Kompositionen weiter. Die Ausstellung in der Berlinischen Galerie zeichnet anhand von rund achtzig Werken Uhlmanns S...

Is Islam a part of Germany? And, if so, since when has this been the case? What is everyday life like for Muslims living here? What form does social coexistence take? In Moin und Salam, the photojournalist Julius Matuschik, together with the political and religious studies scholar Raida Chbib, explores these issues among others, yet they refrain from proffering any one-dimensional answers or conclusive evaluations. Through impressive historica...

In "Broken Memories" Andréas Lang explores the themes of recollection and history in Turkey. In a series of photographs and videos, he reflects on the disappearance, the discontinuity and the multiple layers of historical writings as well as the overwriting that leaves visible traces of a collective memory long since rendered invisible. He focuses on the contemporary approach to history, but especially on places with links to the later Ottoman...

The catalogue "Max Neumann. Journey" comprises around eighty paintings and works on paper from all periods of work by the painter and graphic artist Max Neumann (b. 1949) who is an important representative of German figuration. His enigmatic human figures seated in enraptured pictorial settings are not geared towards capturing a subjective, distinct portrayal, but towards the crystallization of an unmistakable manlike allegory. His characters,...

Die LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen feiert ihr 25-jähriges Bestehen und präsentiert dazu einen Sammlungsschwerpunkt ihrer Namensgeber. Erstmals wird die qualitätvolle und originelle Porzellansammlung von Peter und Irene Ludwig umfangreich in Oberhausen vorgestellt. Über Jahrzehnte hat das Aachener Mäzenenpaar feinstes Meißener Porzellan gesammelt und besondere Freude an der Darstellung von Berufen gehabt. Heute wird dieses "weiße Gold" in Bam...

Jan Krickes (* 1977) Fotoserie Andauernde Heimkehr präsentiert eine komponierte Abfolge von Landschaftsaufnahmen, die - losgelöst von einer Chronologie - eine Reise jenseits einer erkennbaren physischen Route bilden. Es sind Eindrücke nicht konkreter Orte, flüchtige Impressionen von Naturstrukturen oder Lichtspielen, die auf eine ganz eigene Art die urbane Energie und Schnelligkeit der Street Photography in die Landschaftsfotografie übertragen...

The catalogue "Friedrich Einhoff. 100+" includes 100 works on paper by the Hamburg-based artist Friedrich Einhoff (1936-2018) as well as 32 further works on canvas dating from various periods of his work. Einhoff's pieces, which employ a wide range of painting and drawing techniques, all revolve around the central image of humankind and its ambivalent and fragile nature. Anonymous traces of figures, torn off fragments of bodies and facial cont...

Simone Lucas und Sven Kroner (beide * 1973) studierten an der Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie Malerei und sind seither ein Paar. Beide arbeiten von Beginn an figurativ, oft auf großformatigen Leinwänden. Simone Lucas kreiert komplexe Welten, wie beispielsweise in Schulräumen agierende junge Wissenschaftler*innen, die sich mit dem Universum beschäftigen, oder aber aus mehreren Szenen bestehende Gemälde, bei denen es keine Trennung zwischen Außen un...

This publication spans more than forty years of artistic work by the painter Henning Bertram (b. 1962). Many in the Rhineland know him through his large-scale charcoal drawings of seemingly archaic fragments of architecture. This book provides for the first time an insight into Bertram's early work and the spectrum of his artistic career - an unremittingly explorative path, switching between the abstract and the figurative, culminating in a su...

In her art, Ines Doujak (b. 1959) examines complex interrelationships and goes directly to the heart of explosive issues. From a queer-feminist perspective, she unsparingly analyses the mechanisms and ramifications of the neoliberal market economy and the relationship between production and consumption, capital and exploitation, colonialism and neocolonial rule, racism and gender roles. For the first time Nevertheless provides an overview of ...

The Schaubühne Berlin is one of the foremost German-language theatres and has a unique artistic profile. Between 2018 and 2022, visual artists Christian Jankowski, John Bock, Olaf Nicolai, Katharina Sieverding and Monica Bonvicini designed a series of posters for the theatre. The outcome: striking two-dimensional artworks that when inserted into Berlin's cityscape, created a kind of temporary urban exhibition. The array of artistic executions ...

The artist book "Marcel van Eeden - 1898" is being published to coincide with the Hans-Thoma Prize 2023. The prize-winner, Marcel van Eeden (* 1965), explores Thoma's little-known travels to the Netherlands in 1898. He reflects on Thoma's analysis of Rembrandt van Rijn or Paulus Potter, under the problematic influence of cultural theorist Julius Langbehn. Present-day gum bichromate images of the places Thoma visited alongside historical quotes...

Conversation with My Other Me" is a photo art book by Danish photographer René Riis featuring a series of multi-photograph portraits. A unique cabinet of mirrors created specifically for this purpose captures one-of-a-kind portraits of various individuals: a mixture of prominent public figures, among them dancers, politicians, actors and sporting personalities, as well as unknowns with a charismatic presence. What makes these multi-photographs...

Character Arc", the documentary photo series by Pascal Haas (b. 1976), features a collection of portraits of Berlin-based actors. The photos, taken between 2021 and 2023, depict the actors personally, in the park or on the street-outside of their roles, away from the stage and the set. The serene black-and-white analogue portraits show the artists as approachable, free from any artifice. In this way, the images reveal both their strength and t...

This catalogue raisonné of printed works by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov comprises some ninety works. Some of these are series and consist of several prints. This graphic part of the Kabakov oeuvre, recently acquired by the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, offers insight into the varied work of these two artists, comprising drawings, works with garbage, albums, paintings, and installations.

Liquid Faces and Perfect Gardens" is the first monograph by Sebastian Sabal-Bruce, the Chilean photographer and filmmaker now based in New York. His work uses photographic techniques such as focus and blurring, proximity and distance, to tell the poetic tale of a journey into his innermost thoughts and feelings. The book combines landscape images with portraits, on-set photography and street photography, resulting in a collection of private mo...