BEUYS – LEHMBRUCKThinking is Sculpture25 June to 1 November 2021

There are not many artists who caused as radical an upheaval in the history of art as Joseph Beuys. Central to his thinking was the desire to apply the liberating potential of art to all areas of life. In 1986, Beuys was awarded the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize. In his acceptance speech, he stressed the importance Lehmbruck’s art had for him. He explained how his encounter with the Expres-sionist sculptor’s work had led him to art in the first place and traced a connection between Lehmbruck and the development of his own theories. Marking the 100th birthday of Joseph Beuys, the exhibition explores that idea and presents the work of the two artists.

Future Office on the Museum Plaza For Beuys, our society was one great ‘social sculpture’ to which we all contribute. Together with the Kunstmuseum Bonn, the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences and the project A Fair Land, we invite you to transform the Museum Plaza into a forum for discussion and communal life. The central question is: How do we want to shape our future?

Parallel presentation: Lehmbruck – Beuys. Everything is Sculpture26 June to 1 November at the Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg

The exhibition is part of the Beuys anniversary year programme ‘beuys 2021. 100 years joseph beuys’

In cooperation with the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg.

HANNAH ARENDTAND THE 20TH CENTURYuntil 16 May 2021

The twentieth century simply cannot be understood without Hannah Arendt.Amos Elon, journalist and writer

Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) was one of the most important political thinkers of her time. Controversial and opinionated, she commented on current events. In her judgements, she did not follow any tradition or political direction. ‘Thinking without a banister,’ she called it. The Jewish writer who had fled Nazi Germany coined the terms we still use to describe two central concepts: ‘totalitarianism’ and ‘banality of evil’. She wrote about anti-Semitism, the situation of refugees, the Eichmann trial, Zionism, the US political system, racial segregation, student protests and feminism.Not one of these issues has been resolved. Thus, the exhibition presents a life and work that reflect the history of the 20th century and that have lost none of their relevance and explosive power. Hannah Arendt’s ideas continue to challenge our own judgement, even in current political contexts, especially at a time when democracy is in grave danger of being undermined in many places around the world.

An exhibition of the Deutsches Historisches Museum, in cooperation with the Bundeskunsthalle.

ABY WARBURG. MNEMOSYNE ATLAS The Originaluntil 25 July 2021

In the 1920s, the art historian and cultural theorist Aby Warburg developed his Bilderatlas Mnemosyne. For this project of a ‘picture atlas’, he studied the interplay of imagery from different periods, ranging from antiquity and the Renaissance to contemporary culture. To highlight universally recurring visual themes and patterns, Warburg juxtaposed images of works of art from the Middle East and Europe with contemporary newspaper clippings and advertisements.His method set new standards: for the first time, motifs and images were looked at across epochs. His work transcended the disciplinary boundaries between art history, philosophy and anthropology and laid the foundations for today’s disciplines of image and media studies. To this day, Warburg’s approach remains inspirational and offers alternative routes through our visually and digitally dominated world. The exhibition is the first to present a nearly complete recon-struction of the last documented version of the Atlas with Warburg’s original visual material arranged on 63 large panels.

Curated by Roberto Ohrt and Axel Heil with the Warburg Institute, London, in cooperation with the Bundeskunsthalle.Produced by Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

DRESS CODE Are you playing fashion?21 May to 12 September 2021

How did you choose the clothes you are wearing today? Designer dress or jeans; suit, sweatpants or uniform – every culture, era and social group has its own dress codes. They set the framework, but each person comes up with their individual take on the rules.Now coming to Europe, Dress Code, the hugely successful exhibition from Japan, presents fashion as a game and the daily transformation as an important instrument for expressing our personality. On show are fashion classics as well as their street-wear descendants. Contemporary fashion by seminal designers such as Giorgio Armani, Burberry, Comme des Garçons, Gucci, Issey Miyake, Louis Vuitton or Yohji Yamamoto is set into an insightful dialogue with contemporary art.The exhibition examines different and opposing attitudes to fashion – those of individualists and conformists. Our choice of clothing is presented as a communicative game that can lead us to a new understanding of our approach to fashion. What do we want to express with it and what does it mean to us on a daily basis? The clothes we wear allow us to assume any number of new roles.A ‘Fashion Lab’ offers visitors a sensory experience of the multi-faceted nature of fashion. Visitors can style themselves virtually with the help of a smart mirror and explore creations by German fashion designers. Further to a wide range of other offers, a pop-up photo area invites visitors to play it up with fashion.

An exhibition of the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and the Kyoto Costume Institute in cooperation with the Bundeskunsthalle.

HOFFMANN COLLECTION29 October 2021 to 13 February 2022

With a selection of some 200 outstanding works – ranging from painting, photography, drawing and sculpture to installation, film and video art – the Bundeskunsthalle presents a compre-hensive survey of modern art drawn from the important private collection put together by Erika and Rolf Hoffmann. The Hoff-manns made their first acquisitions in the 1960s, purchasing primarily directly from artists, with whom they maintained a close dialogue from the very beginning. The exhibition offers deep insights into the collection in all its individuality, subjec-tivity and intensely private nature – Erika Hoffmann has been known to describe the works as ‘family members.’

The presentation reveals surprising correspondences, offers intellectual and emotional stimuli and reflects fundamental existential and philosophical questions that have a timeless validity in our society. Concepts such as energy, radicality, innovation, transience, corporeality or volatility are compelling-ly brought to life in works by artists such as Carla Accardi, Yael Bartana, Christian Boltanski, Monica Bonvicini, Isa Genzken, Felix González-Torres, Georg Herold, Barbara Kruger, Yayoi Kusama, Ernesto Neto, Julian Rosefeldt, Frank Stella, Wolfgang Tillmans and Andy Warhol. The rich diversity of artistic expressions in the exhibition reflects that of the collection.

A cooperation between the Bundeskunsthalle and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann.

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Every two years, the 24 German art academies nominate two of their best students to take part in the competition Federal Prize for Art Students. This year, the jury of experts selected eight prize winners from among the nominees. They share equally the prize money and production grants totaling EUR 48 000.

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The brain is one of the last big mysteries of the human body. What do we actually have in our heads, and how should we picture the processes that take place there? Are our mind and our body two separate entities, and how do we understand and construct the world around us? What will the human brain of the future look like? Will we become computer-assisted cyborgs? The cooperation of various disciplines is needed to address these complex questions.

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THE RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER METHODA Retrospective10 September 2021 to 6 March 2022

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) was a man of many parts. The director, film producer, actor and author is considered one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema. Like few other artists, he created a body of work that shaped and inspired the image of post-war intellectual Germany. The exhibition presents a comprehensive portrait of the great German filmmaker in the context of his time and links his oeuvre and his biography with the reality of everyday life he experienced in Germany. Fassbinder’s exposed position and creative non-conformism led to now-legendary films, television and theatre plays, such as Fear Eats the Soul, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day and Berlin Alexanderplatz, which have become part of the collective visual memory.Fassbinder was an artist who succeeded in synthesising radical subjectivity and social analysis in his works. He lived and deman-ded intensity. His often contrary, critical attitude never got in the way of his affectionate depiction of people and was invariably marked by profoundly respectful consistency. Fassbinder’s work – the subject of fierce debate during his lifetime – has lost none of its force, vitality and significance. To understand it means to be able to muster understanding and tolerance for ourselves and others.

An exhibition of the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, in cooperation with the DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, and the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation, Berlin.

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THE BRAIN THE BRAINfrom 28 January 2022from 28 January 2022

FEDERAL PRIZE FOR ART STUDENTS 25th Federal Competition of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research 12 November 2021 – 30 January 2022

HANNAH ARENDT AND THE 20TH CENTURY until 16 May 2021

DRESS CODEAre you playing fashion?

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THE RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER METHOD

A Retrospective 10 September 2021 – 6 March 2022

BEUYS – LEHMBRUCK Thinking is Sculpture 25 June – 1 November 2021

HOFFMANN COLLECTION

29 October 2021 – 13 February 2022

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ABY WARBURG MNEMOSYNE ATLAS The Original until 25 July 2021