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The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time. Artistic Testimonies of War and Repression

14. September 2023 to 
4. Febuary 2024

Eric Isenburger, Jula in Schweden, 1937, Zentrum für verfolgte Künste, Solingen

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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Römisches Stilleben, 1930, oil on canvas, Brücke-Museum, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023

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Painting, Expressionism, Portrait of a man behind a painting canvas

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Selbstportrait, 1914, Oil on canvas, Brücke-Museum, Public domain

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The exhibition The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time. Artistic Testimonies of War and Repression presents historical and contemporary positions that address state violence and opression. The focus is on the aspect of testimony. Works from the 1930s and 1940s by Maria Luiko, Johanna Schütz-Wolff, and Felix Nussbaum, among others, enter into a dialogue with works by artists such as Simone Fattal, Dana Kavelina, and Lawrence Abu Hamdan. The project is a cooperation between the Brücke-Museum and the Schinkel Pavillon.

 

The starting point is the complex, intertwined history of the two institutions. The Schinkel Pavillon is located in the garden of the former Kronprinzenpalais, which housed the New Department of the Nationalgalerie in the early twentieth century. In this first public collection of modern art, the Brücke artists were integrated early and exhibited publically —until the Nationalsocialists confiscated and even destroyed hundreds of mostly Expressionist works of art as “degenerate”. Some of the works defamed during this period found their way, via detours, to the Brücke-Museum, which was founded thirty years later and is dedicated to the artists’ group of the same name.

 

Against the backdrop of the war unleashed by Russia in Ukraine, the exhibition understands the past as continuity and present.
 

The exhibition at Schinkel Pavillon runs until 21 January 2024.

 

With art works by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Etel Adnan*, Dora Bromberger, Leo Breuer, Isaac Chong Wai, Simone Fattal, Forensic Architecture, Parastou Forouhar, Lea Grundig, Erich Heckel, Hannah Höch*, Eric Isenburger, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz, Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, Maria Luiko,  Otto Mueller, Felix Nussbaum*, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff*, Johanna Schütz-Wolff, Sung Tieu*, Nora Turato and Oscar Zügel.

 

The artists Kateryna Lysovenko* and Dana Kavelina* have withdrawn their works from the exhibition at Schinkel Pavillon, due to a dissent with the curator Katya Inozemtseva.

* at Schinkel Pavillon

 

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Exhibition view, The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time. Artistic Testimonies of War and Repression, photo: Frank Sperling.

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Exhibition view, The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time. Artistic Testimonies of War and Repression, photo: Frank Sperling.

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Exhibition view, The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time. Artistic Testimonies of War and Repression, photo: Brücke-Museum.

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Exhibition room with several works

Exhibition view, The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time. Artistic Testimonies of War and Repression, photo: Frank Sperling.

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Exhibition view, The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time. Artistic Testimonies of War and Repression, photo: Frank Sperling.

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Exhibition view, The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time. Artistic Testimonies of War and Repression, photo: Frank Sperling.

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Exhibition view, The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time. Artistic Testimonies of War and Repression, photo: Frank Sperling.

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Exhibition room with several works

Exhibition view, The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time. Artistic Testimonies of War and Repression, photo: Brücke-Museum.

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Exhibition room with several works

Exhibition view, The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time. Artistic Testimonies of War and Repression, photo: Brücke-Museum.

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A cooperation of Brücke-Museum and Schinkel Pavillon e.V.
The exhibition is sponsored by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
The accompanying program is supported by the Berliner Landeszentrale für politische Bildung.
Partner of Berlin Art Week

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Logo Berlin Art Week 13.-17. Sept 2023

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Supported by the Berlin State Center for Political Education

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Information/Downloads

Exhibition Guide: Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit.
Künstlerische Zeugnisse von Krieg und Repression

German Exhibition Guide

96 pages
German
free of charge
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Exhibition Guide: Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit.
Künstlerische Zeugnisse von Krieg und Repression

Exhibition Guide: The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time.
Artistic Testimonies of War and Repression

English Exhibition Guide

96 pages
English
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Exhibition Guide: The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time.
Artistic Testimonies of War and Repression

Staff

Curator: Katya Inozemtseva
Artistic Directors: Lisa Marei Schmidt (Brücke-Museum), Nina Pohl (Schinkel Pavillon)
Project Management: Luisa Seipp
Assistant Curator: Philipp Lange (Brücke-Museum)
Curatorial Contribution: Lina Louisa Krämer (Schinkel Pavillon)
Curator of Outreach: Daniela Bystron (Brücke-Museum)
Curator of Collection: Christiane Remm (Karl und Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Stiftung)
Project Assistants: Celine Marten, Justine Ney (Brücke-Museum), Ella Křivánek, Nora Veismann (Schinkel Pavillon), Fee Wüstenberg (Brücke-Museum)