With works by Andreas Mühe as well as Joachim Bandau, Göksu Baysal, Barbara Klemm, Hubert Kiecol, Wilhelm Klotzek, Tobias Kruse, Konrad Mühe, Erasmus Schröter, Paul Virilio and the designer Ursula Wünsch.
As monumental forms made of concrete, the bunkers dot Europe’s landscape; from Berlin and Germany, to French Brittany, the English Channel, even to the northern and southern coasts (as the “Atlantic Wall”). In Italy, Austria, Germany, etc., bunkers can be found in the middle of cities as oversized, indestructible bodies. The National Socialists called their bunker construction project “Fortress Europe”. Their dark past is firmly inscribed in the bunkers.
The exhibition “From Fiber to Form” traces the development of textile art in Germany from the 1960s to the 1970s and anchors it in its art-historical context. The focus is on the development from the pictorial nature of wall hangings to the increasing relief-like structuring of textile surfaces and the conquest of three-dimensional space. In…
Haleh Redjaian, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1971, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. The basis of her drawings, textile works, and installations consists primarily of repetitive grids, patterns and networks, which she creatively reshapes and reworks. At the center of her work is always the line, whether drawn on paper,…
With the cabinet exhibition »Paul Strecker – Magic of the Curtain« the Kunsthaus Dahlem shows works of the unusual and versatile artist. His work includes paintings, drawings and stage designs as well as literary texts. In addition, as a teacher and critic, he influenced art history in his adopted home of Paris, where he lived…
Peter László Péri (1899–1967) emigrated from Berlin to London in 1933 – persecuted for racial and political reasons, the capital was no longer a home for the Hungarian-born artist after the National Socialists took power. He had worked in Germany from 1920 to 1933. The renowned gallery owner Herwarth Walden exhibited his concrete and wooden…