Visual Arts

Franz West „Ion“ (2010); © Hugo Glendinning

When Art becomes a Playground: The Exhibition “Move”

Dance as a radical art form of post-war modernity has influenced the works of visual artists in many and diverse ways - or has itself put art into choreographic contexts.More ...
Thomas Schütte
 
Großer Geist (Big Spirit) No. 4 and No. 5, 1997; Großer Geist (Big Spirit) No. 14, 1999 

Polished aluminium, 246 x 187 x 112 cm; 238 x 200 x 131 cm; 250 x 100 x 110 cm
 
De Pont museum of contemporary art Tilburg, NL 

Photo: Florian Holzherr
 
Copyright: Thomas Schütte / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011

Big Spirits and Little Imps – Thomas Schütte in Munich’s Haus der Kunst

With a keen sense for the humour and unfathomable depths of his figures, the high halls in the “Haus der Kunst” have been bedecked with the sculptural and graphic works of Thomas Schütte.More ...
Katharina Grosse
shadowbox, 2009
Acrylic on laminated hard foam (partial view)
Photo: Jens Ziehe, Berlin
© Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin / Katharina Grosse / 
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011

Colour Manoeuvres between Heaven and Earth – Katharina Grosse in Berlin and Nuremberg

For at least ten years now, the German painter Katharina Grosse has cast a spell over museum walls with her vapoury atmospheric colour mists. She has successfully replaced the brush with the airbrush. In two exhibitions Grosse now shows that illusory colour spaces can be transferred to sculptural objects. An attempt that does not invariably succeed.More ...
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Which is the Original? – On German Photography Today

How’s photography doing at the dawn of the 21st century? Who are its foremost German exponents? How does it relate to other arts? Is it still a separate art?More ...