Five Friends. John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly
10 April 2025 until 17 August 2025, ground level and lower level
Press release
Press preview: 8 April 2025, 11 a.m.
Opening: 9 April 2025, 7 p.m.
Duration: 10 April 2025 until 17 August 2025
You are warmly invited to a press preview on Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at 11 a.m.
Please obtain accreditation by no later than 11 a.m. on April 7, 2025 at presse@museum-brandhorst.de.
For the first time, the exhibition “Five Friends” focuses on a circle of artists who had a decisive influence on post-war art in the fields of music, dance, painting, sculpture and drawing. John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly created a special connection between the artistic genres and media through their intimate exchange.
With over one hundred and fifty works of art, scores, stage props, costumes, photographs and archival materials, the exhibition provides an insight into the interplay between the five befriended artists. Museum Brandhorst is also shedding new light on Cy Twombly’s work, which forms a central focus of the collection.
The exhibition will be complemented by a varied accompanying program of dance performances and concerts in Cy Twombly’s Roses Gallery, which will focus on the works of Merce Cunningham and John Cage.
The exhibition is organized in cooperation with Museum Ludwig in Cologne.
Curated by Yilmaz Dziewior, Achim Hochdörfer, Arthur Fink
Concerts and Dance
In cooperation with
Supported by
Robert Rauschenberg, Cover Page, Stoned Moon Book, 1970
Jasper Johns, Flag on Orange Field, 1957
Cy Twombly, Orion III (New York), 1968
Roses Gallery at Museum Brandhorst
Cy Twombly, Portrait Robert Rauschenberg (Tetuan, Morocco), 1952
Cy Twombly , Untitled (Roma), 1962
Jasper Johns, Target, 1974
Robert Rauschenberg, Odalisk, 1955-58
Jasper Johns, Painted Bronze / Ale Cans, 1960
Jasper Johns, Tango, 1955
Robert Rauschenberg, Axle, 1964
