Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum fur Gegenwart – Berlin presents Wall Works an exhibition on view through August 31, 2014.
Against the historical background of mural paintings and wall designs dating back over millennia, artists in the early 20th century devised concepts for wall paintings, picture walls and wall reliefs, which went beyond the frame of an individual image in order to take an entire wall or interior space into view. The boundaries of painting and sculpture have been further advanced through their connection to this notion since the 1960s, while also questioning the conditions under which art is produced, how it presents itself, and how it is reviewed and traded. From within the context of Minimal and Conceptual Art, artists examined the “White Cube” in a museum or gallery space, and the wall, as part of the exhibition display, was taken up as a central theme. In differing ways, walls serve as temporary surfaces for staging graphic, painterly, cinematic and language-based works, and they can, in fact, be interpreted as sculpture. Walls are sometimes also physically attacked or the masonry beneath the plaster is exposed. In essence, the wall, pictorial space and architectural space combine to create an entity in every work, each in its own way.
Participating artists:
Ross Bleckner, Monica Bonvicini, Daniel Buren, Hanne Darboven, Raoul De Keyser, Friederike Feldmann, Ceal Floyer, Günther Förg, Katharina Grosse, Peter Halley, Mona Hatoum, Richard Jackson, Sergej Jensen, Donald Judd, Imi Knoebel, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Sherrie Levine, Sol LeWitt, Gordon Matta-Clark, John McCracken, Sarah Morris, Matt Mullican, Bruce Nauman, Blinky Palermo, Giulio Paolini, Antonio Paucar, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Robin Rhode, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Rosemarie Trockel, Nasan Tur, Lawrence Weiner, Franz West
A publication documenting the exhibition will be available in spring 2014.
Curator: Gabriele Knapstein, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Curatorial assistance/press contact: Uta Caspary, [email protected]
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