ConfrontationsPairings from the Collection
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"Confrontations. Pairings from the Collection" brings together pairs of works from the Brandhorst Collection that have no art-historical or formal relationship to each other. These pairings unfold a special tension precisely in their contrasts: they open up new spaces for thought, address our intuition and evoke emotions. Sometimes touching, sometimes subtle, sometimes funny and always ambiguous, they create a conversation about and between art. The exhibition invites us to see confrontation in a productive way, to discover new connections, to question familiar interpretations and to link personal experiences with overarching questions of the present.
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Ground floor
Dr. Monika Bayer-Wermuth and Lena Tilk
About the exhibition
What happens when two works come together that, at first glance, seem to have little in common? “Confrontations” invites visitors to test this question in the exhibition space. Unexpected pairings of works enter into dialogue: a Christmas tree made of steel (Philippe Parreno) encounters a single red child’s shoe (Robert Gober); a photographic series from Venice (Tarrah Krajnak) meets a brightly painted rod (André Cadere); a giant Black Hulk action figure (Arthur Jafa) is placed next to a small winner’s podium (Rosemarie Trockel). It is precisely in these encounters that tension emerges—at times emotionally moving, at times humorous, at times captivating.
With works by
Alexandra Bircken, Monika Baer, Nairy Baghramian, Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, James Lee Byars, André Cadere, Marlene Dumas, Nicole Eisenman, Jana Euler, Louis Fratino, Robert Gober, Wade Guyton, Richard Hamilton, Keith Haring, Rachel Harrison, Damien Hirst, Arthur Jafa, Mike Kelley, Konrad Klapheck, Tarrah Krajnak, Louise Lawler, Saul Leiter, Tala Madani, Mario Merz, Tatsuo Miyajima, Philippe Parreno, Pope.L, Richard Prince, Raymond Saunders, Amy Sillman, Rosemarie Trockel, Cy Twombly, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, Nicole Wermers
Curated by
Dr. Monika Bayer-Wermuth, Chief Curator, Museum Brandhorst, and Lena Tilk, Research Associate, Museum Brandhorst, with contributions by Dr. Katharina Fischer, Team Assistant, Museum Brandhorst; Dina Kagan, Student Assistant, Udo and Anette Brandhorst Foundation; Franziska Linhardt, Curator, Museum Brandhorst; and Benedikt Seerieder, Curator, Museum Brandhorst; with a special contribution by Arthur Jafa.
Sound of the exhibition
Accompanying the exhibition “Confrontations,” actress Luisa Gaffron curated a playlist.
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