Organized in 2022 at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin and then touring at the beginning of last year at the Stadtgalerie Kiel, the exhibition “Dissonance – Platform Germany #3” is presented in an expanded form at the National Art Museum of Romania.
Made with the support of Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, the exhibition “Dissonance – Platform Germany #3” brings together 75 contemporary artworks in various techniques by 43 international artists born after 1972 who live and work in Germany.
The starting point was the publication “Dissonance – Platform Germany” by authors Christoph Tannert and Mark Gisbourne (DVC, Berlin, 2022), which provides an overview of the various artistic approaches and strategies, especially pictorial, that have appeared in Germany in the last three decades. Researching the German contemporary art scene, the two authors of the study discovered an extreme plurality of formulations and themes in the field of painting, characterized today by heterogeneity and the affirmation of self and identity by the development of a complex pictorial discourse in which the figurative, abstractionism, popular culture, social media, photography and techniques that come from advertising coexist.
The exhibition includes works by artists: Aline Alagem / Emmanuel Bornstein / Söntke Campen / Nicolae Comănescu / Ivana de Vivanco / Annedore Dietze / Zohar Fraiman / Rao Fu / Falk Gernegroß / Oska Gutheil / Simone Haack / Roey Victoria Heifetz / Julius Hofmann / Franziska Holstein / Sebastian Hosu / Małgosia Jankowska / Hortensia Mi Kafchin / Aneta Kajzer / Kanta Kimura / Pia Krajewski / Clemens Krauss / Tegene Kunbi / Jeewi Lee / Inna Levinson / Katsuhiko Matsubara / Monika Michalko / Kazuki Nakahara / Irina Ojovan / Justine Otto / Grit Richter / Tanja Rochelmeyer / Dennis Rudolph / René Schoemakers / Sebastian Schrader / Gustav Sonntag / Aiko Tezuka / Ulrike Theusner / Christian Thoelke / Clemens Tremmel / Angelika J. Trojnarski / Ruprecht von Kaufmann / Paul Wesenberg / Sahar Zukerman.
Christoph Tannert, curator and author of international prestige, lives and works in Berlin. From 2000 to 2024, he was the director of the central cultural Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin.
“Dissonance – Platform Germany #3” is part of MNAR’s 2024 program dedicated mainly to the presentation of significant exhibitions for international art such as “Victor Brauner, between Dreamlike and Occult”, “A Century of Bessarabian Painting”, “Depictions – Danielle van Zadelhoff”, “Ileana Sonnabend & Arte povera”, “Tadeusz Kantor, artist anywhere and anytime”, developed with important partners such as Pompidou Center Paris, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art from Strasbourg, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Saint-Etienne Métropole, the National Art Museum of Moldova in Chisinau, the Italian Embassy in Bucharest, the Italian Institute of Culture in Bucharest, the Sonnabend Collection Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (MOCAK), the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the Tadeusz Kantor Art Documentation Center (Cricoteka), the Polish Institute in Bucharest.
These exhibitions offered the public the opportunity to meet for the first time in Romania the works of exceptional artists, which illustrate important chapters in the history of modern and contemporary art, resulting from the intense activity and superior organization of the museum’s activity.
The exhibition can be visited until February 23, 2025.
Source: mnar.ro
