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Ralph Goertz curated "Axel Hütte. Night and Day" at Museum Kunstpalast
The photographic artist Axel Hütte ranks among the most important representatives of the Düsseldorf School of Photography. He is considered a ‘landscape painter’ among contemporary photographers, although alongside the topic of landscape, a further focus of his work is on architecture. Axel Hütte draws his motifs from the urbanity of major cities, from Alpine glaciers and the South-American jungle. His photographs surprise the viewer with their unusual pictorial structures and phenomena of perception, thus localizing his photographic work far beyond the documentary.
This largest exhibition to date of the Düsseldorf photographer presents approximately 70 large-scale daytime and night-time pictures created between 1995 and 2017, including a number of works from Canada and the USA, which have never been shown publicly. Axel Hütte started his cycle of night pictures with sparsely lit landscapes and in later years focussed his attention on illuminated metropolises on different continents.
The director of the IKS, Ralph Goertz, was asked by Beat Wismer, director of the Museum Kunstpalast, to curate the exhibtion in cooperation with the artist. Many thanks! Opening is on 22 September, 7pm.
photo: Ralph Goertz © IKS-Medienarchiv
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Tobias Zielony in der Kunsthalle Barmen
Tobias Zielony - Haus der Jugend
10 Sept 2017 - 14 Jan. 2018
Zielony photographed places that are avoided in the collective perception of our society. Often, young people and young adults are coming out of this environment and are visibly exposed to the public, who seek confrontation with their struggle for self-confidence and identity. The exhibition in the Von der Heydt Kunsthalle focuses on the latest work of Zielony. For the first time a series of photographs, made by Zielony 2016/2017 in Ukraine, will be presented to the public. These new works entitled "Maskirovka" deal with the techno and queer scene in Kiev in the wake of the revolution of 2013.
We met the artist for the interview and were allowed to accompany him during the construction of his exhibition. Many thanks!
99 Seconds of: Haus der Jugend
photo: Ralph Goertz © IKS-Medienarchiv
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DC Open / Berit Schneidereit at Gallery Cosar HMT
8 Sept - 27 Oct 2017
The young artist Berit Schneidereit (* 1988 in Frankfurt) studied at the Kunstakademie Duesseldorf first with Hubert Kiecol and then with Andreas Gursky. In her darkroom she experiments with the basic elements of photography, light and paper, combining skillful digital and analogue techniques to abstract photograms. We met the artist in her first exhibition for an interview. Many thanks!
99 Seconds of: Terrain
photo: Ralph Goertz © IKS-Medienarchiv
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DC Open / Wendy White at VAN HORN Gallery
8 Sept. - 4 Nov. 2017
The American artist Wendy White uses a collage technique in her works, combining painting, photography and textile materials. In her "Kelly Girl" series (2017) she uses b/w photographs of American professional drivers from the 1970s and 1980s as a basic element for her work. She is dealing with the gender role in men-dominated professional sports and breaks the stereotype of women in motor racing. Next to the "Kelly Girl" she presents her series "Jeans" (2017).
photo: Ralph Goertz © IKS-Medienarchiv
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Jorike Tenbergen at Museum Folkwang
Caution! Contaminated Context II
24 Aug - 8 Oct 2017
Relativity and shifts in content as well as in semantic contexts form the crux of the artistic work of Jorieke Tenbergens (born 1993, Zevenaar, Netherlands), who graduated from the Arnheimer ArtEZ Academy of Art and Design (NL) only a short while ago, in 2016. With a distinction for an unusual and extraordinary men’s collection. She samples and loops, renegotiates what she finds in the print media or online. Everything seems to be equally relevant, in terms of theme, materials, shapes or semantic persuasiveness, and then gets subjected to a transformation that may even culminate in the emergence of a new alphabet.
We met the artist for an interview and produced a trailer for the Museum Folkwang (including the performance "Walking Act" with a sound performance by Julia Bünnagel).
Trailer Museum Folkwang
photo: Isabel Hernandez © IKS-Medienarchiv
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Thomas Grünfeld at the Philara Collection Duesseldorf
2 Sep. - 22 Oct. 2017
Thomas Grünfelds work first achieved international attention with his "misfits" series, a group of hybrid animal sculptures which he began in the late eighties. After his 2014 retrospective Homey at the Museum Morsbroich in his hometown of Leverkusen, Grünfeld, who is also a professor for sculpture at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, will present several upholstered objects from the the series "Fireplaces" (2016) alongside the twelve-part dye-transfer series "Heimspiel" (1999).
We were allowed o meet Thomas Grünfeld during the setup for an interview. Many thanks!
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photo: Ralph Goertz © IKS-Medienarchiv
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IKS at daily newspaper Rheinische Post
The culture journalist Annette Bosetti has written a nice article on our new documentary "Hans-Peter Feldmann: without words" and the director of the IKS, Ralph Goertz: "The photographer of the photographs". Many thanks!
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Elmgreen & Dragset / Die Zugezogenen
Museum Haus Lange / untill 27 August 2017
For their solo exhibition Die Zugezogenen [The Newcomers], Elmgreen & Dragset treat Haus Lange as it was originally intended: a family home. The artist duo stages the moment that a fictional German family moves in. Having previously relocated to Britain, the family has now decided to move back to Germany following Brexit.
Elmgreen & Dragset combine their own sculptural work with ready-made furniture and artefacts in order to create a domestic setting. Some items have already been unpacked and installed, while others remain semi-wrapped or in boxes. Presenting the family’s move as a symbol of a changing Europe, the exhibition reflects upon the visions of Modernist architecture in light of today’s reality, and considers how many of these ideals now seem distant from our current, global, geopolitical situation.
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Hans-Peter Feldmann "without words"
a film by Ralph Goertz
now available at book shops / Walther König books
ISBN-No. 978-3-86335-971-3 or online!
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Erik Kessels at NRW-Forum Duesseldorf
12 Aug - 5 Nov 2017
Erik Kessels ranks among the most important creative professionals in Europe. He co-founded the international agency KesselsKramer in Amsterdam and is not only a advertisers, but also an artist, curator, publicist and a passionate collector of photographs.
The Erik Kessels & Friends exhibition is the first comprehensive presentation in Germany of this Dutch artist and advertiser who has a preference for the imperfect and the incomplete. The exhibit will showcase the most important works of the past 20 years. Aside from that, he has invited along five friends, the artists Paul Kooiker, Joan Fontcuberta, Peter Piller, Joachim Schmid and Ruth van Beek, who will be intervening in the survey exhibition with their own works.
We met the artist for an interview and talked about his attitude on contemparary photography. May thanks!
99 Seconds of: Kessels & Friends
photo © IKS-Medienarchiv
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IKS released documentary on German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann
"without words" - a film by Ralph Goertz
It was a journey into the undefined. When we started the filming of a documentary about the German conceptual artist in 2010, it was not clear whether a film should finally be released. The media artist does not give interviews. Therefore comes the 30min. Film (almost) without language and developed itself over the years to the concept film. Hans-Peter Feldmann is considered to be one of the most important contemporary artists in Germany and influenced the artist's generation to this day. With humor, irony and poetry, he creates his works of art and reveals his very personal gaze on art and his understanding of art.
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As a bonus track you will find a very rare 40 min. artist talk with Kasper König!
The film has been published by Koenig books and will be available via ISBN (978-3-86335-971-3) or online!
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"Art et Liberté" – Surrealism in Egypt (1938-48) at the K20
15 July - 15 Oct. 2017
This is the first comprehensive museum exhibition about the largely forgotten Cairo based group "Art et Liberté" (art and liberty, jama’at al-fann wa al-hurriyyah). The exhibition presents more than 200 works from around 50 collections in 12 different countries, including paintings, works on paper, prints, photographs, films, books, and archival documents. At the dawn of World War II and during Egypt’s colonial rule by the British Empire the surrealist collective of artists and writers was engaged in its defiance of Fascism, Nationalism and Colonialism.
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SPOT ON: 1937. The "degenerate art" in Düsseldorf
Museum Kunstpalast
14 July until Summer 2018
In the Düsseldorf Art Collections alone, around 1.000 artworks left the museum storerooms. In addition, many modern works were exchanged or sold on the museum‘s own initiative between 1933 and 1945.
In 2013, inventory records and other documents in the museum and in the municipal archives relating to the confiscation were studied in detail for the first time. The project was initiated by the museum‘s provenance researcher and the Research Center for “Degenerate Art“ at the Freie Universität in Berlin and resulted in a comprehensive update of the Center’s research database.
This year, exactly 80 years after the confiscation, our museum wants to put the insights of this research project into perspective and communicate it to a larger audience.
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Mythos Tour de France im NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
18.05. - 30.07.2017
"Mythos Tour de France" will span more than 80 years of Tour history with over 120 works by 20 international artists and will showcase the powerful imagery of the most important bike race in the world. It will shine a light on the tumultuous history of the Tour de France, show its splendour and its more shady aspects and demonstrate how sporting events and image events are interdependent. This exhibition will interweave different narrative threads and artistic perspectives and explore the following question: how did the Tour create its mystique?
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photo: Ralph Goertz © IKS-Medienarchiv 2017
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Cranach at Museum Kunstpalast
CRANACH Master - Brand - Modernism
Museum Kunstpalast
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photo: Isabel Hernandez
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Gerhard Richter. The Editions at Museum Folkwang
April 7 – Juli 30, 2017
Museum Folkwang presents from April 2017 all of Gerhard Richter’s editions from Olbricht Collection created since 1965. Gerhard Richter. The Editions. provides an overview of his artistic output to date, which now spans over five decades. Richter has been using editions both to reinterpret and disseminate his art since the 1960s. Even his early prints reveal how the artist formulated questions he was addressing in his painterly practice in new ways in his editions, namely questions concerning the relationship between original and reproduction, or the properties of painting and photography, as well as the readability of his themes.
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photo: Jens Nober © Museum Folkwang
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HSL digital lab celebrates 30 year with exhibition
The Duessldorf based photo lab HSL is celebrating their 30 year company. In occasion of the celebration they announced an exhibition with works by Tony Cragg, Candida Höfer, Hans-Peter Feldmann: etc., curated by Ralph Goertz, director of IKS. "30 years - 30 artists" will take place at HSL and starting on May 5th at the fiftyfifty Gallery in Duesseldorf. All photographs will be sold to support homeless people.
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Haunted House at Gallery Cosar HMT
March 11 - April 18, 2017.
Three extraordinary artists from England, Austria and Germany are bringing their art into the Duesseldorf based Gallery Gosar HMT. Werner Reiterer, Guenter Weseler and David Falconer are playing in a fascinating and absurd way with their contemporary view on sculptur and painting.
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photo: Installation by Werner Reiterer
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New Artist Rooms at the Kunstsammlung NRW
Alexandra Bircken
Starting April 2017
The K21 Ständehaus is a very special venue for young international artists and for the contemporary portions of the permanent collection. Traversing three levels, 22 rooms offer visitors intensive encounters with painting, sculpture, photography, film, and in particular with spatially-oriented art. Selected contemporary artists are invited to display works for a period of one year, thereby engaging in dialogue with other works in the collection.
photo: Isabel Hernandez © IKS-Medienarchiv
More than 3000 visitors at the opening
Peter Lindbergh came from Paris to Duesseldorf for the opening of his exhibition "Peter Lindbergh / Garry Winogrand: Women on Street" (curated by Ralph Goertz / IKS) an broke all records of the NRW-Forum Duesseldorf.
The opening evening of the Duesseldorf Photo Weekend 2017 at the NRW-Forum was a great success. Next to "Thomas Mailänder: The Fun Archive" (curated by Alain Bieber), "Perfect Storm" und "On Photography" (imai) it was Peter Lindbergh, who broke with more than 3000 visitors all records. His exhibition "Lindbergh/Winogrand" is on view till 30th April.
Many thanks to the team of the NRW-Forum, Alain Bieber, Clara Maria Sels and all visitors, who were patience enough to wait in the very long line outside!
photos: Isabel Hernandez © IKS-Medienarchiv 2017
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Peter Lindbergh / Garry Winogrand:
Women on street
curated Ralph Goertz
Duesseldorf Photo Weekend 2017
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IKS starts 2017 with Lindbergh and Winogrand
It is a great upcoming exhibition to start the New Year 2017. The IKS presents together with the NRW-Forum the exhibition "Peter Lindbergh / Garry Winogrand: Women in street" (curator: Ralph Goertz). The exhibit presents two of the best photographers and centers around the question of reality and staging in street photography. Next to the first presentation in Germany of the series "Women are beautiful" by Garry Winogrand, we also present 44 photographs by Peter Lindbergh, which he made on street back in 1990s.
As a world premiere we are also proud to present the rare color works by Garry Winogrand!
© The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
© Peter Lindbergh, Paris
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Thomas Schütte at Sculpturehall Neuss
28 Jan. - 12 March 2017
Thomas Schütte counts as one of the most important sculptors in contemporary art. At the sculpture hall in Neuss Thomas Schütte presents, next to new and older works, his impressive "United Enemies". Great exhibit!
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Ulrike Schulze receives Ehrenhof Prize 2016
Museum Kunstpalast Düsselorf
20 Jan - 16 April 2017
In 2016 the Museum Kunstpalast announced together with Georg Landsberg the Ehrenhof Prize for a graduate of the famous Art Academie in Düsseldorf. The first prize goes to Ulrike Schulze who is work with minimal, side specific installations.
We met the artist for a short interview.
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photo: Isabel Hernandez © IKS-Medienarchiv
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Candida Höfer at Thomas Zander Gallery
Candida Höfer - Observations
19 Nov. 2016 - 4 Feb. 2017
The Thomas Zander Gallery presents at their current exhibition for the first time new dye transfer prints, which were made this year in cooperation with the Gallery.
But what you also can see are some new works, which are becoming closer to abstract photography.
We met the artist for an interview. Many thanks!
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Norbert Tadeusz at Beck & Eggeling
Nobert Tadeusz | Olé!
4 Nov 2016 – 21 Jan 2017
For the first time the Gallery Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art presents an overview of painting by german painter Norbert Tadeusz. All works are shown for the first time or were not shown for a long time.
The works, which displays interior or yerydayness scenes, were made between 1974 and 2006.
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Degas & Rodin at Von der Heydt Museum Wuppertal
IKS produced the documentary
Degas & Rodin
25 Oct 2016 - 26 Feb 2017
The did know and respected each other. Their works on movement, body, space and time are unique and both were fascinated by horses, women and photography. Without them the modern age in art would not have been possible.
On the occation of the exhibit, we were asked to produced a documentary in Paris and Meudon. Many thanks!
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Edgar Degas "Drei Tänzerinnen", ca. 1903, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Sammlung Beyeler
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Christo at Museum Kunstpalast
On November 3rd, 2016 the artist CHRISTO will visit the Museum Kunstpalast for a lecture.
Christo is also part of the exhibition "Behind the curtain" where he presents his "Wrapped Beetle" from 1963/2014.
Ralph Goertz, director of the IKS, met Christo last winter at his studio in New York and talked with him about this work, which he presented at the Schmela Gallery for the first time back in 1963.
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"Dancing with Myself" im Museum Folkwang
Self-portrait and Self-invention / works from the PINAULT COLLECTION
From October 7, 2016, to January 15, 2017, the large exhibition hall in the Museum Folkwang will be given over to an artistic examination of the self. The thread that links the pieces together is the multifaceted presence of the artists in their own work. It will be the first time that such a substantial number of the outstanding group of works acquired by Francois Pinault is to be put on display in Germany. Dancing with Myself is a playful, poetic, poltical, and wild dance through contemporary art moving from the 1960s up to our own time. At the same time Dancing with Myself is also a vibrant media crossover.
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"Behind the curtain" at Museum Kunstpalast
Concealment and Revelation since the Renaissance. From Tizian to Christo
1 Oct. 2016 - 22 Jan. 2017
The fascinating interplay between concealing and showing, veiling and revealing using a curtain, veil or drapery is introduced in this themed exhibition, which is staged exclusively in Düsseldorf and shows important works from six centuries.
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