Exhibitions2023The Way We Are

With works by more than one hundred artists and artist groups from various eras and places around this world, The Way We Are covers 2,500 square meters and opens multifaceted perspectives onto contemporary art.

There are spaces dedicated to depictions of the self or perceptions of landscape, to images of Germany, to formulated empowerment or manifested power hierarchies, to new perspectives on art history or everyday life, to nationalism or surveillance, but also to the vertical form or the diversity of the colour black. Thus the focus is on art-historical issues as well as social-political discourses. Approaches from the 1960s and 1970s are being further developed in the present day, renowned names are challenged by young, not-yet-discovered positions, established standpoints of classical art history are brushed against the grain.

A basic idea running through the exhibition is the potential of art to develop oppositional points of view onto what is familiar and to adopt surprising perspectives with regard to what links us all. This gives rise to fascinating, humorous, poetical and radical possibilities for approaching issues of current topicality by way of art.

Exhibition on levels 1, 2 and 4 ½

Curated by Ingo Clauß and Janneke de Vries

Artists: Saâdane Afif, Nevin Aladağ, Tamina Amadyar, Carl Andre, John M. Armleder, Phyllida Barlow, Rebekka Benzenberg, Viktoria Binschtok, Karla Black, Christian Boltanski, Patrick Bongoy, Geta Brătescu, Rahel Bruns, André Cadere, Miriam Cahn, Claudia Christoffel, Claire Fontaine, Mel Chin & GALA Committee, Jesse Darling, Jeremy Deller, Braco Dimitrijević, Ólafur Elíasson, Iran do Espírito Santo, Cao Fei, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Ceal Floyer, Andrea Fraser, Kasia Fudakowski, Ryan Gander, Isa Genzken, Kyriaki Goni, Petrit Halilaj, Mona Hatoum, David Hepp, Hu Weiyi, Donald Judd, Mauricio Kagel, Šejla Kamerić, Johanna Karlsson, Annette Kelm, Sonia Khurana, Jürgen Klauke, Fabian Knecht, Kitty Kraus, Jürgen Krause, Till Krause, Alicja Kwade, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz, Zoe Leonard, Richard Long, Robert Longo, Urs Lüthi, John McCracken, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Tracey Moffat, Marge Monko, Andreas Mühe, Horst Müller, Zanele Muholi, Juan Muñoz, Kenneth Noland, Ahmet Öğüt, Murat Önen, Roman Ondak, Susan Philipsz, Claudia Piepenbrock, Charlotte Posenenske, Paloma Proudfoot, Laure Prouvost, Ariel Reichman, Tim Reinecke, Pipilotti Rist, Peter Roehr, Bunny Rogers, LaRissa Rogers, Kay Rosen, Ulrike Rosenbach, Jonas Roßmeißl, Fred Sandback, Karin Sander, Emma Sarpaniemi, Ngozi Ajah Schommers, Norbert Schwontkowski, Richard Serra, Lerato Shadi, Daniel Spoerri, Sibylle Springer, Sturtevant, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Gavin Turk, Luc Tuymans, Anna Uddenberg, Anna Vogel, Jorinde Voigt, Franz Erhard Walther, Andy Warhol, Wim Wenders, Claudia Wieser.

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