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There are many more stories to tell than are initially obvious in our exhibition rooms. The blog now offers insights behind the scenes more diverse infos on the exhibitions, artists and the work at Haus der Kunst.
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Haus der Kunst - 2021 Program PreviewAll exhibitions of the year 2021 at Haus der Kunst
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Obituary for Herman DaledOur former director Chris Dercon wrote a very personal and warm-hearted obituary for the collector Herman Daled.
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Mwili, Akili na Roho – East African Figurative Painting of the 1970s — 90sOne room in the exhibition "Michael Armitage. Paradise Edict" presents East African painters that are thus key acteurs within the articulation of East African Modernism, and as such have significantly shaped Michael Armitage as an artist. We introduce those artists and their works on the Blog.
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‘and my hearth for whose fire you envy me’This blog series is an homage by four former students of the artist and teacher Franz Erhard Walther.
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‘A handful of plaster, which I throw into the space – this is a sculpture’This blog series is an homage by four former students of the artist and teacher Franz Erhard Walther.
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Superimposing Paint and Motifs: Inspired by Michael Armitage – A Workshop TutorialInspired by Michael Armitage's multilayered works, our workshop tutorial will show you a simplified technique that allows you to achieve amazing effects of image and color overlay at home.
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You can live as an artist, and this is kind of what it looks likeThis blog series is an homage by four former students of the artist and teacher Franz Erhard Walther.
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Artist Talk with Kapwani KiwangaAs part of the opening Kapwani Kiwanga and curator Damian Lentini talked about the installation "Plot" at Haus der Kunst. Listen to the talk now with our Podcast.
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Pictorial aesthetics in the production of “Plot”Over a period of several weeks, the transparent curtains for the installation “Plot” were painted in order to create the unusual color gradients. In a picture gallery, we provide insight into this elaborate production process and the exhibition building with the artist Kapwani Kiwanga.
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Present in absentia – from the interior to the exterior, from the real to the virtual and back againFor four days, the website of Haus der Kunst became a work of art. Parallel to this, the same conceptual work by Franz Erhard Walther was projected onto the western façade of Haus der Kunst, where it will remain for forty days from sunset to sunrise.
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Space for Franz for SpaceThis blog series is an homage by four former students of the artist and teacher Franz Erhard Walther.
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Counter Images to the Image – Franz Erhard Walther’s Transformative Artistic PracticeIn her essay Jana Baumann describes Walther‘s early urge to overcome the passive role traditionally assigned to the viewer and to explore a new presence of the body and physical sensation in the visual arts.
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Fauna and Flora at Haus der KunstTo her own surprise the nocturnal walks during the weeks of the pandemic lockdown led the author Christine Wunnicke to Haus der Kunst. She wrote down her experiences from those walks in a short story for our blog.