Art Calendar – Current Exhibitions in Germany

The photographer Katharina Sieverding shows how data from NASA can be turned to account in her exhibition World Line 1968–2013 at the Schloss Moyland Museum. Its focal point is her film Die Sonne um Mitternacht schauen (i.e., To Look at the Sun at Midnight), which Sieverding compiled from 2010 to 2013 from about 100,000 NASA data. The exhibition includes works that date back to the 1960s. Sieverding has newly arranged them in an installation of multi-channel projections.

Born in Prague in 1944, Sieverding was a master student of Joseph Beuys in the late 1960s at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf, where she has lived ever since. She became internationally known through her mainly large-scale photographs, in which she explores the possibilities of the photographic medium.

The Schloss Moyland Museum is a moated castle built in neo-Gothic style located in Bedburg-Hau on the Lower Rhine near the Dutch border. It owes its collection to the brothers Hans and Franz Joseph van der Grinten, whose art collecting focused on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and especially on Joseph Beuys. The museum’s 5,000 works by the artist is the world’s largest of Beuys’ collection. The Dusseldorf Art Academy, 90 kilometres distant from the castle, also administers the Joseph Beuys Archive with its roughly 200,000 documents.