It was about a hundred years ago that art - at least in part - became abstract. Abstraction has never since held a monopoly, but there were substantial periods of dominance, followed by figurative counter-movements. The oppositions of abstract / figurative and formalism / realism, mainly in the postwar period, were ideologically charged not only artistically but also socially.
A generation that experienced its formative artistic socialization after 1990 found the front of abstraction nevertheless to be largely a de-ideologized concept that is neither political nor subject to requirements of aesthetic purity. The pre-and post-war-modernism is, for this generation of artists, a quarry with various deposits that may be recombined with each other in the sense of musical samplings in order to subject them to a current reading. Works from the last ten years document the relevance of a new abstraction in the spectrum of contemporary art.
With works from: Cristian Andersen, Florian Baudrexel, Wolfgang Flad, Martin Flemming, Nadja Frank, Amélie Grözinger, Knut Henrik Henriksen, Gregor Hildebrandt, Olaf Holzapfel, Jeroen Jacobs, Isabel Kerkermeier, Thomas Kiesewetter, Karsten Konrad, Gereon Krebber, Alicja Kwade, Wilhelm Mundt, Manfred Pernice, Bettina Pousttchi, Thomas Scheibitz, Felix Schramm, Katja Strunz, Johannes Weiß
ABSTRACT //// SCULPTURE is curated by Marc Wellmann and is the first survey exhibition of current non-representational sculpture in a German institution. The works appear in dialog with the sculptures by Georg Kolbe, one of the most important figurative sculptors of the modern age.
A catalog with essays by Marc Wellmann and Juliane Kobelius accompanies the exhitibtion. 64 pages, hardcover, sale price in the exhibition: € 12
26 June – 4 September 2011
Georg Kolbe Museum
Sensburger Allee 25
14055 Berlin
Deutschland
