The exhibition series »Present. Contemporary Artists Encounter Felix Nussbaum« of the Museumsquartier Osnabrück enters its fourth round with the Lebanese artist Mounira Al Solh: In her drawings, installations and videos, Al Solh deals with hopes and pain caused by migration, exile and cultural heterogeneity. She formulates her inner world, much like Nussbaum, primarily in self-portraits. Experiences of persecution in the 1930s and 40s are juxtaposed with contemporary experiences of Al Solh, using Nussbaum as an example. The exhibition opens on December 11 in the Felix Nussbaum House of the Museumsquartier.
Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944), who grew up in Osnabrück, studied painting and took up a scholarship at the Villa Massimo in Rome in 1932. A year later, as a Jew, he was unable to return to Nazi-ruled Germany and lived primarily in Brussels. Increasing hopelessness and loneliness determined Nussbaum's life and his painting. With his symbolically charged, naively objective style, he explored his inner reality. Until his violent death, he painted persistently as an act of liberation from fear for his life.
The works of documenta 14 participant Al Solh can be viewed for nearly a year, through November 13, 2022. Admission is free on the opening night, December 11.
