Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Etel Adnan, Dora Bromberger, Leo Breuer, Isaac Chong Wai, Simone Fattal, Forensic Architecture, Parastou Forouhar, Lea Grundig, Erich Heckel, Hannah Höch, Eric Isenburger, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz, Otto Mueller, Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, Maria Luiko, Felix Nussbaum, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Johanna Schütz-Wolff, Sung Tieu, Nora Turato & Oscar Zügel
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
14. September 2023 –
21. January 2024
Opening: 13. September 19:00
Guided tours in German:
Sunday, 07.01., 5 p.m.
No pre-registration necessary.
The exhibition The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time. Artistic Testimonies of War and Repression shows historical and contemporary positions that address state violence and repression. The moment of witnessing is in the foreground. Works from the 1930s and 1940s by Maria Luiko, Johanna Schütz-Wolff or Felix Nussbaum enter into a dialogue with the works of artists such as Simone Fattal, or Lawrence Abu Hamdan. The project is a cooperation between the Brücke Museum and the Schinkel Pavillon.
The starting point is the complexly connected history of the two buildings. The Schinkel Pavilion is located in the garden of the former Kronprinzenpalais, which housed the New Department of the National Gallery in the early 20th century. In this world’s first public collection of Modern Art, the Brücke artists had their first museal presentation – until the National Socialists confiscated hundreds of mainly expressionist works of art as “degenerate”. Some of the works defamed during this period found their way, via detours, to the Brücke Museum, which was founded 30 years later and is dedicated to the artists’ group of the same name.
Against the backdrop of the war unleashed by Russia in Ukraine, the exhibition curated by Katya Inozemtseva understands the past as continuity and present.
A cooperation of Brücke-Museum and Schinkel Pavillon e.V.
The exhibition is sponsored by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. The accompanying program is supported by the Berliner Landeszentrale für politische Bildung.
As part of Berlin Art Week.
The artists Kateryna Lysovenko and Dana Kavelina have withdrawn their works from the exhibition due to differences of opinion with the curator.
Curator: Katya Inozemtseva
Artistic Directors: Lisa Marei Schmidt (Brücke-Museum), Nina Pohl (Schinkel Pavillon)
Project Management: Luisa Seipp
Head of Production & curatorial Contribution: Lina Louisa Krämer (Schinkel Pavillon)
Assistant Curator: Philipp Lange (Brücke-Museum)
Project Assistants: Celine Marten, Justine Ney (Brücke-Museum), Ella Křivánek, Nora Veismann (Schinkel Pavillon)
Curator of Outreach: Daniela Bystron (Brücke-Museum)
Curator of Collection: Christiane Remm (Karl und Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Stiftung)
