Gerold Miller is the first contemporary artist to be invited to make an intervention at the Bröhan Museum for the exhibition ‘Intervention #1’ from Wednesday, 20 November 2024. The artist is invited to attempt a dialogue between his works and the museum’s collection objects. Gerold Miller (*1961) is one of the world’s most successful non-objective artists. In his strongly coloured works, he further develops the themes of Concrete Art and Hard Edge. His works revolve around the concepts of painting and sculpture. He combines the absolutely homogeneous colour surfaces in mostly bright colours with equally perfect three-dimensional bodies made of aluminium. His artworks are children of the high-tech industrial world, which in the Bröhan Museum’s collection meet the world of things at the beginning of the industrial age.
Image above: © Atelier Gerold Miller, photo by Matthias Kolb.
The Art Nouveau exhibits in the Bröhan Museum are characterised by their curved lines and shapes reminiscent of plants. When looking at them, the eye often remains captivated by the function of the objects. The actual quality of a design, which results from the relationship of the proportions, the interplay of line and surface and, of course, the effect of the colour, cannot really be perceived. Concrete art, from whose tradition Gerold Miller’s art originates, has omitted everything that distracts from the pure language of form and colour. His works intensify the interplay of form and colour. A flawless colour surface is applied to perfectly crafted geometric bodies made of aluminium, revealing nothing about the paint application or the artist’s style. Nothing should distract from the pure effect of the colour, which enters into a perfect symbiosis with the form in Miller’s objects.
Colour and form, the traditional basic themes of painting, have become autonomous. The form has emancipated itself from the surface of the canvas and has become a three-dimensional body. Colour has freed itself from the act of painting, from the application of paint. In juxtaposition with the objects in the museum collection, a new view of the works of applied art and design is to be stimulated. A view that is then trained for the pure aesthetics of form and colour.
The exhibition is a co-operation with WENTRUP Berlin.
Free public guided tours (plus museum admission) every Friday (except Good Friday), 4 pm, registration not required.
WHEN?
Exhibition dates: from Wednesday, 20 November 2024 to Sunday, 27 April 2025
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm and on all public holidays (closed on 24 and 31 December)
Curator of the exhibition: Gerold Miller
Exhibition design: Atelier Gerold Milller
Press and public relations: Corinna Kleis M.A.
Education and mediation: Nils Martin Müller M.A.
Assistant Press and Public Relations / Education and Mediation: Fadila Yassouf M.A.
WHERE?
Bröhan-Museum
Schloßstraße 1a
14059 Berlin
COSTS?
Entrance: 8 EUR, erm. 5 EUR
