Modern Times. Industrial Themes in Painting and Photography - exhibition about the industrial age ends

The Bucerius Kunst Forum has offered a view on the origins of the industrial age with its exhibition Modern Times. Industrial Themes in Painting and Photography. Since June 26, 2021, around 30 paintings and 170 photographs on the theme of industry have been on display there. On Sunday, September 26, 2021, the exhibition will now come to an end after three months. According to the organizers, this form of artistic examination of the industrial age has never been seen before: The works on display work through the emergence of industry and illuminate the accompanying effects on landscape and work, as well as the changing view of technical progress in a media dialogue. Visitors can gain a chronological insight into the industrial development of the last 175 years from Romanticism to the present day in Europe through the 200 works on display. Among the artists on display are August Sander, Léon-Auguste Mellé, Walker Evans, Evelyn Richter, Otto Steinert and Bernd and Hilla Becher.

The Bucerius Kunst Forum is a private exhibition house supported by the non-profit Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius. It opened in 2002 in the middle of Hamburg's city center on the centrally located Rathausmarkt in a former bank building and in 2019 moved to a newly renovated building just a few meters away.

On October 1, a solo show of Maria Lassnig's works from the Klewan Collection opens at the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne. The Austrian artist, who died in 2014, bequeathed an œuvre spanning more than 60 years, which gallery owner and collector Helmut Klewan appreciated early on. His personal relationship with Lassnig is evident in the works on display, which give visitors insights into his extensive collection of the artist. This can be viewed at the Museum am Neumarkt in Cologne until January 9 2022.

Lassnig's work focuses on the human body, especially the female one, and stages it in a completely new way. This subject, now considered characteristic of the artist, she intensified from the late 1940s. Her intention was to let inner, physical sensations and the outer appearance flow into each other. In this way she visualizes her own emotional life and makes emotions such as pain or grief tangible for the viewer. It is precisely this extraordinary unfolding of the body that guides visitors through the exhibits of the Klewan Collection for three months.