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Porträt. Photographs by Matthias Schaller at NRW-Forum   Reflective visors of astronaut helmets, desolate studios and abandoned offices in the Vatican: absence is the foundational motif in the work of photographer Matthias Schaller. He portrays people by avoiding their direct gaze. With some 100 works the exhibition presents the photographer’s unconventional portraits, which capture his limitles...

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Gazing of Tranquility: Italian Contemporary Sculpture Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China The exhibition –7 January till 20 February 2022– is showing sculptures by Italian artist Gehard Demetz and seven of his colleagues from Val Gardena in Alto Adige. Two of the exhibits – Only the Princess Looks Normal from 2020 and 21 Grams from 2018 – were previously on view in the exhibition »...

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For the second time, the NRW KULTURsekretariat (NRWKS) is awarding prizes to ten renowned artists from ten of the 21 member cities of the NRWKS. Next to Thomas Wrede, the prizes – awarded as scholarships and each endowed with 5,000 euros – went to Katharina Bosse (Bielefeld), Uwe Esser (Krefeld), Karin Geiger (Neuss), Peter Gros (Bochum), Stephanie Pech (Bonn), Werner Ryschawy (Gelsenkirche...

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LEIKO IKEMURA AQUI ESTAMOS – HERE WE ARE LA CIUTAT DE LES ARTS I LES CIENCIES | VALENCIA | OPEN EVERY DAY Poised like waterlilies, six public sculptures of Japanese-Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura hover over a blue pool of water that has long allowed an open view of architect Santiago Calatrava’s eye-shaped L'Hemisfèric. For Leiko Ikemura, the exhibition We are here / Aquí Estamos (until...

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OPENING: FRIDAY, 27.8., 5 PM   CITY C LEVERKUSEN | FRIEDRICH-EBERT-PLATZ 21 | 51373 LEVERKUSEN 8/27 – 10/31, 2021 | OPEN 24/7  

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Participating artists: Yuji Agematsu, Christian Bau, KP Brehmer, Peter-Ernst Eiffe, Jef Geys, iLL, Heino Jaeger, Jacqueline de Jong, Sigmar Polke, Recht auf Stadt und Alles Allen, Chris Reinecke, Annette Wehrmann and Laura Ziegler   Peter Ernst Eiffe became famous during the protests of May 1968 in Hamburg for the absurdist slogans that he wrote with a felt-tip pen on everything from traffic signs to mailb...

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Norbert Tadeusz (1940-2011) is one of the pioneers of a new figurative painting in the former Western Germany. Tadeusz formulated a clear counter-position to non-objective painting, as it largely characterized the general understanding of "modern painting" in various forms until the 1970s: he took up the experiments of color field painting of those years and transformed them into an expressive, figurative p...

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Under the titles "Verbotene Zonen" (Forbidden Zones) and "Große Prozesse" (Great Processes), the Max Ernst Museum Brühl of the LVR is presenting around 100 works by Hartmut Neumann (*1954) and Wolf Hamm (*1974) in a double exhibition. The German painter, object artist and photographer Hartmut Neumann studied painting and graphics at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen und...