On view exhibition
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time. Artistic Testimonies of War and Repression
7. January 2024
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.
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The artists Kateryna Lysovenko* and Dana Kavelina* have withdrawn their works from the exhibition at Schinkel Pavillon, due to a dissent with the curator Katya Inozemtseva.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
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




Programme
- Exhibition Opening: The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time. Artistic Testimonies of War and Repression13 Sep
- Accompanying film programme at Sinema Transtopia:15 Sep
- Accomapnying programme at Sinema Transtopia:15 Sep
- Accompanying programme at Sinema Transtopia15 Sep
- Workshop: Stretching Sessions 16 Sep
- Curators Tour with Philipp Lange (DE)16 Sep
- Accompanying film programme at Sinema Transtopia:16 Sep
- Accomapnying programme at Sinema Transtopia:16 Sep
- Accompanying programme at Sinema Transtopia16 Sep
- Public Guided Tour in German17 Sep
- Accompanying film programme at Sinema Transtopia:17 Sep
- Accomapnying programme at Sinema Transtopia:17 Sep
- Accompanying programme at Sinema Transtopia17 Sep
- Public Guided Tour in German24 Sep
- Performance: Isaac Chong Wai – Humming Breath and Silent Words - POSTPONED30 Sep
- Public Guided Tour in German1 Oct
- Museum Sunday1 Oct
- Public Guided Tour in German8 Oct
- Public Guided Tour in English8 Oct
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Workshop: Open printmaking workshop - moved to the October 29th
15 Oct - Public Guided Tour in German15 Oct
- Public Guided Tour in English15 Oct
- Artist's Tour with Parastou Forouhar (GER) – POSTPONED19 Oct
- Workshop: Stretching Sessions (GER)21 Oct
- Public Guided Tour in German22 Oct
- Public Guided Tour in English22 Oct
- Workshop: Drawing narration, drawn narration (GER)22 Oct
- Public Guided Tour in German29 Oct
- Public Guided Tour in English29 Oct
- Workshop: Open printmaking workshop for youth and adults (GER)29 Oct
- Vacation Course: Our space, your story. space installation, empowerment, storytelling 31 Oct – 3 Nov
- Museum Sunday5 Nov
- Workshop: Stretching Sessions (GER)11 Nov
- Public Guided Tour in German12 Nov
- Public Guided Tour in English12 Nov
- Workshop: Drawing narration, drawn narration (GER)12 Nov
- Curator's Tour with Lisa Marei Schmidt (GER)16 Nov
- Talk: ostracized, persecuted, forgotten: the fates of female avant-garde artists during the Nazi regime (GER)16 Nov
- Public Guided Tour - canceled19 Nov
- Public Guided Tour in German19 Nov
- Curator's Tour with Philipp Lange & Luisa Seipp (GER)26 Nov
- Public Guided Tour in German26 Nov
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Workshop: Open printmaking workshop for youth and adults (GER)
26 Nov - Museum Sunday3 Dec
- Public Guided Tour - canceled9 Dec
- Workshop: Stretching Sessions (GER)9 Dec
- Public Guided Tour in German10 Dec
- Public Guided Tour in English10 Dec
- Workshop: Drawing narration, drawn narration (GER/EN)10 Dec
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Workshop: Open printmaking workshop for youth and adults (GER)
16 Dec - Public Guided Tour in German17 Dec
- Artist Tour with Isaac Chong Wai (EN)21 Dec
- Public Guided Tour - canceled6 Jan 2024
- Public Guided Tour in German14 Jan 2024
- Public Guided Tour in German21 Jan 2024
- Public Guided Tour in German28 Jan 2024
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
available for download
Exhibition Guide: The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time.
Artistic Testimonies of War and Repression
English Exhibition Guide
96 pages
English
free of charge
Available for download
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)