From 19 February, the Kunsthalle Nuremberg is showing an exhibition dedicated to the deepest basic human need: In Something Between Us, international positions deal with both the change and the constants of interpersonal networks. In the process, the effects of the Corona pandemic also move to the centre of the action.
Under the title Something Between Us, the Kunsthalle Nuremberg presents the complexity of interpersonal relationships. Between 19 February and 15 May, the works of international artists Kirstin Burckhardt, Miriam Cahn, Vivian Greven, Teboho Edkins, Luzia Hürzeler, Alice Musiol, Warren Neidich, Stefan Panhans, Sibylle Springer, Thomas Taube and Andrea Winkler deal with the meaning of the human being as a social and political being in them. On display are paintings, drawings, photographs, films, sculptures, installations and performances.
The human species has been aware of the basic anthropological need for community since the pre-Christian era. Not least the digital age has already brought a lot of movement into the human network of relationships: it has become more flexible, but at the same time more anonymous. The organisers of Something Between Us see love, empathy and security on the one hand and hate, dependence and exclusion on the other as the constants they are trying to work out during the exhibition.
The corona pandemic currently represents the elephant in the room that shakes the foundations of social interactions. And so the organisers of the exhibition were able to vividly incorporate this interpersonal crisis into the planning: The original theses for the event were already set in 2019, when it was still in the planning stage. It was on show for the first time at KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION in Düsseldorf from 6 March to 2 August 2020. In the meantime, the pandemic has reached a completely different point and visitors can thus experience the processuality of the extremely dynamic and at the same time constant behaviour of social networks from an artistic perspective.
Continuation of the anniversary exhibitions: In 2026, Georg Brandner will celebrate his 70th birthday and his 50th anniversary as a freelance artist. He is presenting his works in various Austrian cities, with the next stop being Wolfsberg: On June 30 at 6:30 p.m., the exhibition Georg Brandner – 70 Years of Art will open at Galerie Atelier Berndt.
An exhibition on the conservation and restoration of unusual materials in works of art: On June 27, the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst in Ghent will open the exhibition Joseph Beuys | Wirtschaftswerte: a conservation history, centered on Beuys’s renowned work.
