Die Kleine 2023
29 Apr – 21 May 2023
Date
29 Apr – 21 May 2023
Location
» NRW-ForumAdmission: free / concessions free
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free
DIE KLEINE is the closing exhibition of the art competition for Düsseldorf primary schools, which is hosted by the Kunstpalast for the fourth time.
From January to April 2023, each participating class jointly creates a work of art. This year’s theme is “From A-Z and 1-10: The colourful world of letters and numbers”. All collective works submitted are presented at this exhibition staged at the NRW-Forum, with visitors being invited to vote for their favourite project. The class which receives the most votes will be awarded an attractive visitors’ prize. In addition, the Kunstpalast offers the art prize “Kunstpreis DIE KLEINE” awarded by a jury.
DIE KLEINE is arranged under the auspices of the Mayor of Düsseldorf, Dr. Stephan Keller.
Curator: Friederike van Delden, Kunstpalast
Free admission
Sponsored by
Alex Grein. Circuit
Langsberg-Prize
3 Mar – 10 Apr 2023
Date
3 Mar – 10 Apr 2023
Location
» NRW-ForumAdmission: free / concessions free
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free
Alex Grein (*1983), winner of the Landsberg Prize 2022, explores the question of how images can persist in the digital age. In doing so, the Düsseldorf-based artist examines different categories of images and establishes a link between the virtual and the material.
The award, which was initiated jointly by the Düsseldorf entrepreneur Georg Landsberg and the Kunstpalast, is aimed at artists who graduated from the Academy of Art Düsseldorf several years ago.
Curator: Sarah Jonas, Kunstpalast
Exhibition venue: NRW-Forum
Free admission
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Landsberg-Prize 2019
Sabrina Fritsch
2 June – 14 June 2020
Date
2 June – 14 June 2020
Location
» KunstpalastAdmission: 9€ / concessions 7€
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free
The prize is aimed at graduates from the Academy of Art Düsseldorf, who left the academy a number of years ago. Sabrina Fritsch will be showing a selection of her latest paintings. The artist works with a form of abstract painting that picks up on and consolidates different traditional strands of 20th-century avantgarde art, moving them forward to new solutions. Fritsch expands the field of painting and demonstrates that through the art of formal reduction and concentration, crucial innovations may arise.
Curator: Kay Heymer
Die Kleine 2020
Art competition for Düsseldorf Primary Schools
14 June – 28 June 2020
Date
14 June – 28 June 2020
Location
» KunstpalastAdmission: 9€ / concessions 7€
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free
Exhibition
“Die KLEINE” is the closing exhibition of the art competition for Düsseldorf primary schools, which this year is staged by the Kunstpalast for the first time. Each participating class has jointly created a work of art on the theme “my hometown Düsseldorf”.
In the process, the children thought about ways in which they wish to present their city or their favourite spot.
All visitors are invited to vote on their favourite work shown in the exhibition and to nominate it for the visitors’ prize. The winning class will be announced at the end of the exhibition and receive a fantastic prize!
Sponsored by:
Stadtwerke Düsseldorf
NRW.Bank
VirTUAL TOUR THROUGH THE EXHIBITION
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Die Kleine – Photos to download
Japanische Internationale Schule Klasse 2A
Matthias Claudius Grundschule Tiere in tropischen Flüssen Klasse 3A, 3B, 3C und 3D
Max Schule Klasse 2
Montessori Grundschule Lindenstrasse Biberklasse (1.-4. Klasse)
Paul-Klee-Grundschule Klasse 4A (2)
Perspectives
The new Photography Collection
19 Feb – 13 Sept 2020
Date
19 Feb – 13 Sept 2020
Location
» KunstpalastAdmission: 9€ / concessions 7€
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free
Exhibition
For the first time an art exhibition in Düsseldorf dedicated to photography sets out to unravel all of the medium’s many facets.
This is made possible by the Kunstpalast’s recent acquisition of more than 3,000 photographs. In the presentation of the new collection, avant-garde icons ranging from Man Ray through to Bernd and Hilla Becher are complemented by surprising, lesser known positions, while series of works are juxtaposed with individual pictures.
The exhibition comprising around 150 works presents a panorama ranging from the earliest techniques to the snapshot, elucidating a wealth of application contexts spanning the areas of press, publicity, science, through to fashion. The exhibition offers different thematic points of access to photography and illuminates the medium’s rich diversity.
Curator: Linda Conze
Sponsored by:
Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung
Stiftung Van Meeteren Düsseldorf
WDR3
Catalogue
A catalogue comprising 192 pages is published by DistanzVerlag, with 200 illustrations, a foreword by Felix Krämer and texts by Linda Conze, Janos Frecot, Vera Knippschild and Thomas Weski. (German / English)
Museum edition: 29,80 €
Retail edition: 36,00 €
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Angelika Kauffmann
Artist, Superwoman, Influencer
30 Jan – 20 Sept 2020
Date
30 Jan – 20 Sept 2020
Location
» KunstpalastAdmission: 9€ / concessions 7€
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free
Exhibition
A significant number of the approximately 100 paintings, drawings and sculptures will be presented to the public for the first time. The presentation, which also includes prints and arts and crafts objects based on motifs used by Kauffmann, brings back to life a time when the word went around that “the whole world is Angelica-mad”.
Angelika Kauffmann, according to J. G. Herder the “possibly most cultivated woman in Europe”, was a liberal-minded neoclassical artist highly acclaimed throughout Europe. Admired for her artistic talents, her broad education and impeccable character, Kauffmann enjoyed a career that, for female artists at the time, was unprecedented. She made a name for herself with her remarkable early works, received artistic training in Italy and came to fame and fortune in London as a history painter and portraitist. Later, the astute and well networked businesswoman opened one of the most sought-after studios in Rome.
The exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Curator: Dr. Bettina Baumgärtel
Sponsored by:
Kunststiftung NRW
Rudolf-August Oetker-Stiftung
Ernst Von Siemens Kunststiftung
Schweizer Kulturstiftung Prohelvetia
Schweizerisches Generalkonsulat in Frankfurt am Main
Deutsch-Schweizerische Wirtschaftsvereinigung zu Düsseldorf e.V.
WDR3
Catalogue
Hirmer Verlag published a 208-page catalogue with approx. 180 illustrations, a foreword by Felix Krämer and contributions by Bettina Baumgärtel, Inken M. Holubec, Johannes Myssok and Helen Valentine.
Museum edition: 39,80 €
Bookstore edition: 45,00 €
The catalogue is available in German and English.
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Peter Lindbergh
Untold Stories
5 Feb – 27 Sept 2020
Date
5 Feb – 27 Sept 2020
Location
»Admission: 9€ / concessions 7€
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free
Exhibition
Born in 1944 and raised in Duisburg, the German photographer spent two years working on an uncompromising collection of 140 photographs that will shed an unusual light on his colossal oeuvre, spanning from the early 1980’s to the present day.
The exhibition offers an extensive, first-hand look at images that are usually short-lived, being mostly commissioned by monthly fashion magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Interview, Rolling Stone or W Magazine. Lindbergh’s comprehension of fashion photography is that it can – and should – exist very well without putting fashion in the center. His images transcend their own context, becoming part of contemporary culture and photographic history. Untold Stories celebrates the legacy of Peter Lindbergh, who passed away in September 2019, while showcasing this master’s highly personal approach to fashion photography.
An exhibition of the Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, in cooperation with the Peter Lindbergh Studio and with further venues at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt and MADRE in Naples.
Principal Sponsor:
Porsche
Luma Foundation
Dior
Pinsent Masons
Education Partner:
Sipgate
Süddeutsche Zeitung
WDR3
Next to Peter Lindbergh – Fotografen im Gespräch
Next to Peter Lindbergh – Fotografen im Gespräch
Trailer
Exhibition Trailer
Catalogue
A catalogue comprising 320 pages is published by Taschen Verlag, with an interview between Felix Krämer and Peter Lindbergh and a text by Wim Wenders.
Retail and museum edition: 60 €
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Hotel Package
Düsseldorf Tourismus GmbH offers a hotel package for the exhibition
“Peter Lindbergh: Untold Stories”.
Booking and further information here.
Porsche-Project
On the occasion of the “70 years of Porsche sports cars” anniversary, a joint project between Porsche and Peter Lindbergh was created in 2018. At a beach in northern France, an iconic black-and-white picture series was created in 2018 with a historic 911 and the concept study “Mission E” – the model for the all-electric Porsche Taycan.
Even after this cooperation, the contact between Peter Lindbergh and Porsche was maintained; a special partnership has developed. Porsche Deutschland is the main sponsor of the exhibition “Untold Stories” by Peter Lindbergh and pays special tribute to this legacy. The pictures of the Lindbergh shooting will be exhibited together with behind-the-scenes pictures at Porsche on Sylt (Keitumer Landstraße 14, 25980 Sylt | Tinnum) from 22.6. – 1.10.2020.
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Time for Outrage!
Art in times of Social Anger
29 October 2020 – 10 January 2022
Date
29 October 2020 – 10 January 2022
Location
»Admission: 9€ / concessions 7€
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free
Exhibition
Anger and rage are among our most intense emotions. Many consider them dangerous; others would like to make them socially acceptable. Current international events show how strongly they shape discussions about our social interactions: conspiracy theories, racially motivated violence, extremist terror, or “fake news” are just a few of the worrying consequences of populist power politics that fuel fears and focus on polarisation and exclusion. This is countered by worldwide protests against totalitarian structures, the oppression of minorities, and the deepening of social divisions in society. In a number of countries, democracy appears to be in crisis and many people are increasingly in a state of turmoil.
The exhibition Time for Outrage! is based on the eponymous 2010 essay by French resistance fighter Stéphane Hessel and brings together some forty international artists who visualise, reflect, and comment on various facets of anger and rage in our society. Their works deal with socio-political situations and inspire reflection.
Rather than presenting solutions of problems, the works are about testing the possibilities of taking a stance in the face of current societal and social grievances. The artists presented invariably share an explicitly political attitude that is characteristic of their entire oeuvre.
The exhibition includes installation art, photographs, videos, paintings, drawings and sculptures by Kader Attia (*1970), Monica Bonvicini (*1965), Andrea Bowers (*1965), Peggy Buth (*1971), Thomas Hirschhorn (*1957), Šejla Kamerić (*1976), Iris Kettner (*1968), Liz Magic Laser (*1981), Erik van Lieshout (*1968), Bjarne Melgaard (*1967), Signe Pierce (*1988), Julian Röder (*1981), Santiago Sierra (*1966), Adriana Varejão (*1964), Ahmet Ögüt (*1981) and many others.
Curators: Linda Peitz and Florian Peters-Messer
Sponsored by:
Rudolf Augstein Stiftung
WDR3
3D Virtual Exhibition
VIRTUAL WALK THROUGH THE EXHIBITION
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3D Virtual Exhibition
With the Matterport App, you can explore the fascinating world of Virtual Reality. Use a VR headset or a head mount for smarthphones and get ready to take off for the exhibition!
Catalogue
The presentation is accompanied by a 128-page catalogue in German and English published by DISTANZ Verlag, including a foreword by Felix Krämer, texts by Linda Peitz and Florian Peters-Messer and a conversation between Daniela Steinfeld and Monica Bonvicini.
Retail edition: 32,00 €
Recommended literature
In cooperation with Stadtbüchereien Düsseldorf, a book list with recommended literature for the exhibition was prepared:
Stephane Hessel: Empört Euch!
Carolin Emcke: Gegen den Hass
Natasha A. Kelly: Millis Erwachen. Schwarze Frauen, Kunst und Widerstand
Wolfgang Ulrich: Wahre Meisterwerte: Stilkritik einer neuen Bekenntniskultur
Margarete Stokowski: Untenrum frei
Lydia Haider (Hrsg.): Und wie wir hassen!: 15 Hetzreden
Mithu M. Sanyal, Vulva: Die Enthüllung des unsichtbaren Geschlechts
Ines Geipel: Umkämpfte Zone: Mein Bruder, der Osten und der Hass
Tadel verpflichtet e.V., Sag was!: Radikal höflich gegen Rechtspopulismus argumentieren
Tupoka Ogette, exit RACISM: rassismuskritisch denken lernen
Johannes Kram: Ich hab ja nichts gegen Schwule, aber…: Die schrecklich nette Homophobie in der Mitte der Gesellschaft
Zeev Sternhell: Faschistische Ideologie: Eine Einführung
Nahlah Saimeh: Ich bring dich um!: Hass und Gewalt in unserer Gesellschaft
Max Czollek: Desintegriert euch!
Esther Duflo: Kampf gegen die Armut
Paul B. Preciado: Ein Apartment auf dem Uranus – Chroniken eines Übergangs
Richard Sennett: Die offene Stadt. Eine Ethik des Bauens und Bewohnens
Recommended literature
Exhibition View
Exhibition View “Time for Outrage!”
Exhibition View “Time for Outrage!”
Blick in die Ausstellung “Empört Euch! Kunst in Zeiten des Zorns”
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Refik Anadol
Machine Hallucinations
8 Mar – 7 May 2023
Date
8 Mar – 7 May 2023
Location
» KunstpalastAdmission: 12 € / concessions 9 €
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free
Refik Anadol, born in Istanbul in 1985, studied photography, video and art in his native city and subsequently design and media art in Los Angeles.
At present, Anadol is a lecturer of Design Media Arts at University of California. His works have been widely exhibited internationally and received numerous awards
Data and pixels, algorithms and calculations – these are the elements with which Refik Anadol creates his aesthetic data sculptures packed with surprising effects and flowing forms. Anadol is a pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence. He explores the boundaries of the imagination and uses state-of-the-art technologies to examine the perception and experience of space and time. In his works he brings to the fore immersive environments as well as a hybrid interplay of art, science and technology. Invisible data become visible to the human eye, offering a new narrative of the digitalised world.
The Kunstpalast presents Anadol’s monumental data sculpture “Machine Hallucinations – Satellite Simulations: B” dating from 2021. For this work, the artist used two million images captured and recorded by the International Space Station (ISS) and Hubble space telescopes as well as the Magdalena Ridge Observatory (MRO). GAN algorithms process these images, endowing them with a new aesthetic. A GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) is a machine learning framework which is able to generate new data autonomously by means of two competing artificial neuronal networks that are capable of learning from each other.
The exhibition is curated by Alain Bieber, Head of Time-based Media at Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf.
The exhibition was made possible with the support of Art Collection Telekom and Refik Anadol Studio.
Exhibition View
Refik Anadol, Machine Hallucinations – Satellite Simulations: B, 2021
Refik Anadol Studio, Forest Pigmentations, A, B, C, 2021
Refik Anadol Studio, Nature Dreams – Generative Landscapes, 2021
Refik Anadol, Machine Hallucinations – Satellite Simulations: B, 2021
Refik Anadol, Machine Hallucinations – Satellite Simulations: B, 2021
Refik Anadol Studio, Forest Pigmentations, A, B, C, 2021
Talk with Refik Anadol: Why Machines Dream
Artist talk with Refik Anadol, Alain Bieber and Claudia Nemat (in English)
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Heinz Mack
10 Mar – 30 May 2021
Date
10 Mar – 30 May 2021
Location
»Admission: 9€ / concessions 7€
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free
Digital Exhibition Opening
Digital Exhibition Opening
Exhibition
On the occasion of his 90th birthday, the Kunstpalast dedicates an exhibition to the sculptor and painter Heinz Mack (*1931), focussing on the first three decades of his artistic career.
Marking the 90th birthday of Heinz Mack (*1931), the Kunstpalast dedicates an exhibition to the artist, focussing primarily on his early oeuvre from the 1950s to the 1970s. The show illuminates the innovative and revolutionary spirit with which Mack unlocked new spheres of thinking and working outside academic requisites. The selection of around 100 exhibits, including a number of expansive works, traces the key stages of Mack’s artistic career, such as his studies at the Academy of Art Düsseldorf, his ZERO period, as well as presenting light-based environmental art and his conquest of outdoor spaces by way of large-scale projects in nature.
Encompassing both famous and rarely-shown works – loans from institutions and private collections from Belgium, Great Britain, Liechtenstein and Germany, as well as from the artist himself – the exhibition invites visitors to follow a chronological route through Mack’s oeuvre. Alongside paintings, sculptures and light-kinetic installations, the show comprises photography, film, stage design and the artist’s architectural projects. Legendary Land Art projects take visitors to the North African desert and to the ice of the Arctic ocean. Heinz Mack’s artistic exploration of immaterial mediums such as light, time and motion continues to have a significant influence on many artists to this day.
Curator: Heike van den Valentyn
Sponsored by:
National-Bank
Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
LVR
WDR3
Stadt Düsseldorf
Exhibition Trailer
Exhibition Trailer “Heinz Mack”
Works shown in trailer
Works shown in trailer
Catalogue
The Heinz Mack exhibition is accompanied by a 208-page catalogue published by Walter and Franz König. Along with images of each exhibited work, the catalogue includes foreword by Felix Krämer and Thomas A. Lange and texts from various scientific fields by Barbara Hess, Barbara Könches, Stefan Kröpelin, Matthieu Poirier, Nina Schallenberg, Heike van den Valentyn and Magdalena Zorn.
In addition, the catalogue contains a comprehensive interview with Heinz Mack and a world map, in which Mack’s works are shown in situ.
Museum edition: 29,80 €
Retail edition: 34,00 €
Language: German
Online Talk: Heinz Mack
Online Talk: Heinz Mack – Künstler, Forscher, Grenzgänger, TEIL 1: EXPEDITIONEN
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