Wojciech Bąkowski – Piotr Bosacki

Piotr Bosacki, Film With No Sound (Screenshot), 2009, © Piotr Bosacki

DA SIĘ WYTRZYMAĆ
IT’S BEARABLE
   

February 03 - June 10, 2012
SCHMELA HAUS

This duo of Polish artist, born respectively 1979 and 1977 in Poznan/Poland, where both still live, have collaborated in particular on literary and musical themes. Typically for their generation, both artists pursue a confrontation with a reality apparently devoid of plan or aim, while at the same time maintaining an existential commitment characterized by philosophical and poetic penetration.

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Zvi Goldstein – Haunted by Objects

Zvi Goldstein, Foto: Tal Rosen

November, 13, 2011 - February, 26, 2012
K20 GRABBEPLATZ

This exhibition is the largest project to date of this conceptual sculptor and author, born in 1947, who has developed an artistic stance since the late 1970s which remains external to the western context, yet at the same time strongly linked to it. His work is a response to the challenges of our globalized world.

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Big Picture II

Dieter Kiessling, Mädchen, 2002 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011

Big Picture II (Time zones)

December 09, 2011 – April 01, 2012
K21 STÄNDEHAUS

Experiences of time and recollections of the past are foci in part two of this survey, which features installation works from the museum’s collection, and is presented in the redesigned basement level of the K21 Ständehaus.

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Monika Sosnowska

Monika Sosnowska, The Staircase / Die Treppe, 2010, © Monika Sosnowska

The Staircase / Die Treppe, 2010

From April, 24, 2010
K21 STÄNDEHAUS

With Monika Sosnowska’s project Ohne Titel, 2010 (Untitled, 2010), the imposing interior courtyard of the K21 Ständehaus is made available to an artistic intervention for the first time. The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen will be inviting internationally acclaimed artists to use the “airspace” above the piazza as the site of a contemporary intervention, each designed to heighten awareness of the museum as a “house of art” in the eyes of entering visitors.

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