Until August 10, the Gunzenhauser Museum in Chemnitz is hosting the exhibition European Realities. Realism Movements of the 1920s and 1930s in Europe. Around 300 works of art from 20 countries present this art epoch for the first time on such a large scale.
With around 300 rarely shown paintings from all over Europe, the Gunzenhauser Museum is devoting itself to a special exhibition of modern art: broadly diversified and at the same time detailed, it explores the diverse realist movements across national borders. The realistic depiction responds both to the aftermath of the First World War and to art movements such as Expressionism, which for some created a need for order. Arranged by theme, the works by around 60 artists from 20 countries illustrate how artistic trends were exchanged and influenced each other. The artworks tell of poverty and misery, but also of economic upswing, a cultural heyday, the beginning of emancipation and technical progress. Never before has this period of art been presented to such an extent. European Realities. Realism Movements of the 1920s and 1930s in Europe was curated by Anja Richter and can be seen in Chemnitz until August 10.
The starting point for the concept was Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub's eponymous presentation of New Objectivity from 1925, which, after Mannheim and Dresden, made a stop at today's Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz in Chemnitz. Numerous lesser-known voices of modernism are represented in the current show, including Aleksandra Belzowa, Cata Dujšin-Ribar, Petras Kalpokas, Sven Otto Lindström, Milada Marešová, Josep Mompou Dencausse, Stefan Płużański, Arthur Riedel, William Roberts, Ekaterina Savova-Nenova, Niklaus Stoecklin, Kiril Tsonev and Sigismunds Vidberg. With the help of video graphics over a map of Europe, the artists' movements between art centers such as Paris, Rome, Berlin, Dresden, London, Helsinki and Vienna are traced.
She is a national heroine in Finland, but has only become known internationally in recent years: Helene Schjerfbeck fascinates with her original, simple style. For the first time, a major museum in the USA is presenting her work: Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck opens on December 5 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
From November 13 to 30, the Fremantle Biennale took place in Australia near Perth, focusing on site-specific contemporary art. Among the exhibiting artists was Raki Nikahetiya with a sensory installation about the intertwining of identity, displacement, and home.
