Wilhelm Sasnal

Exhibition Walk-through

“Painting is not a game, not something you do just for fun; it comes with a
responsibility that I take very seriously.” Wilhelm Sasnal

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Wilhelm Sasnal

Stretch your view


Stretch your view


Artist’s talk: Cardiff/Miller and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Artist's Talk, Video, Artist's Talk

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, artistic director of dOCUMENTA (13) on April 12, 2012, on the occasion of the exhibition opening "Cardiff/Miller — Works from the Goetz Collection" MORE

Picture Gallery


Wilhelm Sasnal

Exhibition 13.05.12

The Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal paints images using subjects he finds in daily life, the mass media, or in history. MORE


Wilhelm Sasnal and Ulrich Wilmes

Artist's Talk, Video

For the Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal, the theme of painting as a medium is just as important as is the contextual expressiveness of his paintings. In a discussion with the exhibition's curator, Ulrich Wilmes, the artist gives us insights into his complex body of work MORE


Cardiff & Miller — Works from the Goetz Collection

Exhibition 13.04 – 08.07.12

The exhibition presents eight works by the Canadian artist duo Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, who, by combining image and tone and replicated spaces, activate as many of the viewer's senses as possible in order to make the depicted events as real as possible. Cardiff/Miller participated in dOCUMENTA (13), 2012. MORE


Hughie O’Donoghue

Exhibition 10.01 – 11.02.97

Like Francis Bacon before him, Hughie O’Donoghue concentrates on the human body, its carnality, vulnerability and sensual power. MORE


The Second Face

Exhibition 14.02 – 27.04.97

As a collection of African sculpture, the Barbier-Mueller Collection in Geneva documents the Dark Continent in all its creative richness as hardly any other museum does. MORE


Imi Knoebel

Exhibition 23.08 – 20.10.96

Born in 1940 in Dessau Imi Knoebel is one of the most important German painters of the generation after Joseph Beuys. Spanning three decades, Knoebel’s work can be attributed to Minimalism, although the limited art-historical term cannot full express his variety of genres. MORE


Michel François. La plante en nous / die pflanze in uns

Exhibition 15.12.00 – 04.03.01

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Neo Rauch

Exhibition 16.03 – 27.05.01

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Jenny Holzer

Exhibition 16.11 – 12.12.93

Where women are dying, I am wide awake MORE


Beauty now

Exhibition 10.02 – 01.05.00

Beauty was long not a category in modern art - fashion, advertising and mass media had claimed it for their own. In recent years, however, a return of beauty in contemporary art has been evident. MORE


Hand-Work

Exhibition 02.12.00 – 18.03.01

Senta Connert, Jochen Flinzer, Leni Hoffmann, Charles Long, Peter Rösel MORE


Kurt Schwitters

Exhibition 09.03 – 27.05.01

In the Beginning was MERZ - From Kurt Schwitters until Today MORE


Jana Sterbak

Exhibition 21.06 – 22.09.02

Jana Sterbak's objects prevail in the intersection of installation, performance, video and film. Haus der Kunst - in cooperation with the Malmö Konsthall in Sweden - is now staging a retrospective of Jana Sterbak's works created between 1974 and 2001. MORE


Mike Kelley — Catholic Preferences

Exhibition 11.02 – 17.04.95

The opus of the American artist MORE