Upcoming exhibitions
31 October 2010 - 20 February 2011
Westphalian Expressionism
In 1902, when Karl Ernst Osthaus opened the Folkwang Museum, modernism was moving into Westphalia, and the regional Westphalian Expressionist movement arose. Besides the movement’s spokesman, August Macke, another central figure was Christian Rohlfs, who occupied a studio for a while in the museum in Hagen. Among the later pioneers of the movement were Wilhelm Morgner, Peter August Böckstiegel, Ludwig Godewols, Hermann Stenner, and many others. Westphalian Expressionists quickly found followers in Bonn, Cologne, Hagen, Soest, and Bielefeld. By the 1930s they had established a modern style that attempted to find a balance between city and countryside. The Kunsthalle Bielefeld will show the body of work created before 1933, when the Nazis’ cultural chamber dissolved the Vereinigung Westfälischer Künstler und Kunstfreunde, or Association of Westphalian Artists and Friends. Many works from museums and private collections will supplement the museum’s own collection, creating an exhibition of around 150 works, all told.
13 March 2011 - 19. June 2011
The 80s Revisited. Collection Bischofberger II
The second half of the show will focus on works by the most successful painters in New York in the 1980s, such as Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, George Condo, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, and Spanish artist Michel Barceló, for example. These artists became pop stars on the art scene, taking the leading galleries and museums in Europe and the United States by storm. During that period, their mix of high culture and street art struck a nerve, and these artists set the trends with a sense of great passion, combined with cool irony. Swiss gallery owner Bruno Bischofberger, who also loaned the works of art for this show, motivated Warhol, Basquiat, and Clemente in 1984 to create their Collaborations—works ofart made collectively by the three artists. In conjunction with this show, a book containing approximately 300 color reproductions, analyses of the works, and interviews with the artists was released in spring 2010 by DuMont publishers.