An exhibition at Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster

Abteigarten 6
52076 Aachen-Kornelimünster

Following the first chapter, "Class Relations: Teachers, Students, Artists", Kunsthaus NRW continues the exhibition project in 2026 with new artworks and thematic emphases. "Class Relations – Season Two" explores the cosmos of the art academy through approximately 130 works from the museum’s own collection, complemented by selected loans from the Academy Gallery of the Düsseldorf Art Academy. The new exhibition takes the classical artistic disciplines as its guiding thread: painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper, printmaking, film, video, performance, as well as the many hybrid forms of contemporary artistic production. Alongside questions of technical training, it also addresses aspects that are more elusive: how are attitudes, conceptual thinking, or even — one thinks of Sigmar Polke — humor transmitted?

The exhibition parcours illuminates both the artistic disciplines themselves and the historical developments since the reopening of the Düsseldorf Academy in 1946. Within the tension between older professors, young students, and committed artists such as Otto Pankok, it reconstructs genealogies of teachers who were once students of teachers who themselves had teachers. Günther Uecker studied in Düsseldorf under Otto Pankok and later taught Klaus Schmitt, who has created a homage to his former professor especially for the exhibition.

with works by:

Jan Albers, Silke Albrecht, Ulrike Arnold, Banz & Bowinkel, Heike Kati Barath, Maximiliane Baumgartner, Tim Berresheim, Alexandra Bircken, Sabine Boehl, Axel Braun, Felix Breidenbach, Andreas Breunig, Raphael Brund, Julia Bünnagel, Heinrich Campendonk, Peter Causemann, Louisa Clement, Eli Cortiñas, Tony Cragg, Catherina Cramer, Natalie Czech, Paul Czerlitzki, Björn Dahlem, Danica Dakić, Frauke Dannert, Katja Davar, Michael Dekker, Thomas Demand, Jan Dibbets, Thea Djordjadze, Tatjana Doll, Rike Droescher, Dan Dryer, Udo Dziersk, Bogomir Ecker, Carolin Eidner, Robert Elfgen, Ayşe Erkmen, Jan Paul Evers, Angela Fette, Andreas Fischer, Alexander Föllenz, Claus Föttinger, Christian Forsen, Christian Freudenberger, Sebastian Freytag, Pia Fries, Katharina Fritsch, Sabrina Fritsch, Albrecht Fuchs, Isabella Fürnkäs, Isa Genzken, Ludger Gerdes, Ina Gerken, Martin Gerwers, Clemens Botho Goldbach, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Nicholas Grafia, Alex Grein, Camillo Grewe, Katharina Grosse, Günter Grote, Gesine Grundmann, Julia Gruner, Thomas Grünfeld, Andreas Gursky, Lukas Heerich, Fabian Heitzhausen, Paul Hempt, Georg Herold, Katharina Hinsberg, Gerhard Hoehme, Benjamin-Novalis Hofmann, Franka Hörnschemeyer, Benjamin Houlihan, Thomas Huber, Uschi Huber, Hannah Hummel, Alfonso Hüppi, Hans Paul Isenrath, Magdalena Jetelová, Anna K.E., Klara Kayser, Yury Kharchenko, Hubert Kiecol, Martin Kippenberger, Stefanie Klingemann, Karin Kneffel, Seb Koberstädt, KONSORTIUM, Jens Kothe, Gereon Krebber, Norbert Kricke, Dieter Krieg, Milan Kunc, Sarah Kürten, Kyoung-Jae Cho, Matthias Lahme, Maik Löbbert, Tim Löhde, Vera Lossau, Markus Lüpertz, August Macke, Agata Madejska, Wasa Marjanov, Bettina Marx, Ewald Mataré, Christian Megert, Franziska Megert, Florian Meisenberg, Gerhard Merz, Ulrike Möschel, Wilhelm Mundt, Ansgar Nierhoff, Philippe Nilles, Hannes Norberg, Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen, Michael van Ofen, Walter Ophey, Otto Pankok, Martin Pfeifle, Sigmar Polke, Lorenzo Pompa, Anys Reimann, Thomas Rentmeister, Gerhard Richter, Sebastian Riemer, Klaus Rinke, Alexander Romey, Thomas Ruff, Lex Rütten & Jana Kerima Stolzer, Leunora Salihu, Judith Samen, Heiko Schäfer, Morgaine Schäfer, Evamaria Schaller, Jan Scharrelmann, Hedda Schattanik, Silke Schatz, Agnes Scherer & Paul DD Smith, Peter Schlegel, Klaus Schmitt, Gregor Schneider, Berit Schneidereit, Ludwig Gabriel Schrieber, Jana Schroeder, Nicola Schrudde, Andreas Schulze, Ulrike Schulze, Thomas Schütte, Fritz Schwegler, Fari Shams, Lucia Sotnikova, Juergen Staack, Katharina Stadler, Pia Stadtbäumer, Junior Toscanelli, Rosemarie Trockel, Günther Uecker, Timm Ulrichs, Paloma Varga Weisz, Georg Veith, Thomas Virnich, Anna Vogel, Cornelius Völker, Corinne Wasmuht, Susanne Weirich & Robert Bramkamp, Christopher Williams, Franziska Windisch, Alex Wissel & Jan Bonny, Johannes Wohnseifer, Thomas Wrede and others.