New perspectives on art history: Since the summer of 2024, K20, the state museum of North Rhine-Westphalia, has been showing its collection in a comprehensive new presentation. More than 200 masterpieces of early modernism and postwar art are on display. Seminal works by iconic artists such as Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Andy Warhol are joined by groundbreaking modern figures such as Etel Adnan, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Gabriele Münter, Alice Neel, and Marianne Werefkin, as well as works by artists from non-European regions such as Arpita Akhanda, Fouad Kamel, Mayo, Park Seo-Bo, Lygia Pape, and Hassan El-Telmisani.
As of 19 November 2024, K20 will unveil a newly expanded presentation of its collection. Spanning an additional 800m², the museum will showcase over 30 monumental works from the 1960 to 2000 period, offering visitors new perspectives on art history.
By exploring connections, intersections, and ruptures spanning across yesterday, today, and tomorrow, it unfolds in a loosely chronological order and intertwines thematic galleries with islands of encounters. With this reenvisioned collection presentation, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen showcases its iconic paintings and introduces new acquisitions, dedicating itself to the polyphonic and dynamic histories history of abstract twentieth-century abstract art.
Visitors can also look forward to new digital offerings for the collection: a comprehensive digital guide gives them the opportunity to put together their own collection tour, learn more about internationally renowned artists through audio talks or let DJ Wolfram's (DFA Records / Public Possession / Live from Earth) soundtrack ‘The Sound of the Collection’, produced especially for K20, carry them through the collection. The new ‘Collection Online’ will also be available from 6 July 2024. Almost 300 works can be rediscovered and explored via a digital gallery.
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Installationsansicht, Pierre Bonnard, La terrasse de Vernon, um 1928, Etel Adnan, Persian, 1963 –1964, Etel Adnan, Untitled, 2010/2011, Etel Adnan, Untitled, um 1965 – 1966, Etel Adnan, Hot, um 1960, Fotos: Achim Kukulies -
Installationsansicht, Sonia Delaunay, Marché au Minho, 1915 – 1916, Öl und Enkaustik auf Leinwand, Fernand Léger, Le soldat à la pipe, 1916 -
Installationsansicht, Wiebke Siem, o. T., 2007, René Magritte, Le masque vide, 1928, Fouad Kamel, Untitled, um 1940 -
Installationsansicht, Andy Warhol, Big Torn Campbell's Soup Can (Black Bean), 1962, Carmen Herrera, Estructura Roja, 1966/2012, Piet Mondrian, Rhythmus aus geraden Linien, 1937/1942 -
Installationsansicht, Jenny Holzer, Vertical, 2016, Bridget Riley, [Detail of] Bolt of Colour (Wall Painting) [Marfa], 2017, Isa Genzken, Blau-grün-gelbes Ellipsoid 'Joma', 1981, Carmen Herrera, Some Blue Some White, 1992, Carmen Herrera, Alpes, 2015 -
Installationsansicht, Roy Lichtenstein, Big Painting No. 6, 1965, Andy Warhol, A Woman's Suicide, 1962, Jackson Pollock, Number 32, 1950 -
Installationsansicht, Rosemarie Trockel, Copy me, 2013, Gerhard Richter, Zehn große Farbtafeln, 1966 /1971/1972, Katharina Fritsch, Mann und Maus, 1991-1992, Foto: Linda Inconi
