DEEDS CALENDAR: Zerreißprobe TALKS – A series of events by the Neue Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin | until 16.07.2025
On the occasion of the current collection presentation ‘Zerreißprobe. Art between Politics and Society. Collection of the Nationalgalerie 1945-2000′, the Neue Nationalgalerie invites artists and experts to discuss “Tearing tests” in the past and present from Wednesday, 13 November 2024, to Wednesday, 16 July 2025. The art of the second half of the 20th century is characterised by a diversity of materials, media and methods. At the same time, hardly any other era was so characterised by division and rupture, but also by renewal. The Holocaust and war, upheaval and emancipation, the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall led to tensions within society and to fundamental reorientations in the visual arts. Over 10 evenings, artists and experts will talk about the role of art between politics and society, between everyday life and pop, between nature and ecology, as well as about feminism and fleeting identities.
WHEN?
Exhibition dates: Wednesday, 13 November 2024 – Wednesday, 16 July 2025
FRANZ ERHARD WALTHER. Action as sculpture: Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 6 pm and Thursday, 14 November 2024, 4 – 8 pm
MARIA LASSNIG. ‘Sleeping with a tiger”: Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 6 p.m.
WILLI SITTE. Pop and propaganda in the GDR?: Wednesday, 15 January 2025, 6 p.m.
KLAUS STAECK: ‘Nothing is finished’: Why art must be combative: Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 6 p.m.
The ‘case’ of BARNETT NEWMAN. Attacks on art: Wednesday, 19 March 2025, 6 pm
CORNELIA SCHLEIME and EWA PARTUM. Feminism in the GDR and Poland: Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 6 pm
KIKI KOGELNIK or ANDY WARHOL. Art history without men?: Spring 2025
CHARLOTTE POSENENSKE in action: Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 6 pm
AGNES DENES AND JOSEPH BEUYS. Eco-activism or art?: Wednesday, 18 June 2025, 6 pm
CANDICE BREITZ. Fleeting identities: Wednesday, 16 July 2025, 6 p.m.
WHERE?
Neue Nationalgalerie
Potsdamer Str. 50
10785 Berlin
Image above: Cornelia Schleime, Ich halte doch nicht die Luft an, Selbstinszenierung in Hüpstedt, photograph, 1982 © The artist and Courtesy Galerie Judin, Berlin (Photo: Bernd Hiepe)
