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12/12/2009

Two exhibitions

Groninger Museum, Groningen

German Expressionism 1905-1913, Brücke-Museum Berlin
150 Masterpieces

Highlights from the collection of the Brücke Museum in Berlin. The exhibition, which will be held in the Ploeg Pavilion, will display 150 works, including paintings, drawings, prints and figures by the Brücke members Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt- Rottluff, Fritz Bleyl, Max Pechstein, Emil Nolde, Cuno Amiet and Otto Mueller.

The basis of the collection and the foundation of the Brücke Museum was the donation of a large number of works by Karl Schmidt- Rottluff. Since then, the collection has been extended with works by the other Brücke members by means of purchases, donations and long-term loans. The artists’ group Brücke, founded in Dresden in 1905, is regarded right down to this day as one of the most important fundaments on which North European expressionism is founded.

The rapid, sketch-like forms and the expressive colours, in often-contrasting colour combinations, are typical of Brücke expressionism. Their favourite themes included townscapes, landscapes and the world of variety. In 1913 the group disbanded and the artists went their own way. In the thirties, the work of the members of De Brücke was classified by the Nation Socialist regime as being degenerate.

It is exceptional that these works will be on display in the Groninger Museum. In the 1920s, a number of painters in De Ploeg artists’ group became inspired by the expressionism of De Brücke. An angle on the Groninger landscape, not previously displayed, and the portrait, were created under the inspiring direction of Jan Wiegers who had established contact with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner during a health cure in Davos.

Catalogue
A catalogue with articles by Brücke experts such as Prof. Dr Magdalena Moeller and Christiane Remm, will appear to accompany the exhibition. It will be published by Hirmer Verlag, and will be Dutch-German.

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Bernhard Willhelm & Jutta Kraus

The Groninger Museum will present a major solo exhibition of the work of Bernhard Willhelm and Jutta Kraus (both, 1972) on the occasion of their tenth working anniversary. In the course of these ten years, Willhelm and Kraus have realized more than 30 collections. The exhibition will offer an extensive selection from these, with both men’s and women’s wear.

Willhelm and Kraus’s unconventional fashion is characterized by an outspoken visual language in which they give expression to the grotesque, the childish and the fantastic, which they transform and combine in an unparalleled way with elements from pop culture and haute couture.

Willhelm studied at the Royal Academy for Visual Arts in Antwerp and Kraus at the University of Westminster, London. In 1999 they jointly began a clothing line under Willhelm’s name. Right from the outset they displayed an extremely personal and individual style by means of which they created their totally own universe. Although their work is firmly rooted in the world of fashion, their fashion shows, often presented as installations or tableaux vivants, display strong resemblances to art performances. Eclecticism, craftsmanship and irony typify their work, which shows extremely diverse fascinations for, for example, south German folklore, pop star Michael Jackson, historical costumes, sport and traditional Japanese dress. With the consistent implementation of a deviating silhouette for both women and men, they breach the common fashion image with a striking alternative.

The outfits will be presented in an associative and intuitive way, in exceptional tableaux that highlight and contextualize the background and inspiration of the designers. The fashion designers invited Zana Bosnjak, a scenographer who lives in Berlin, to take charge of the art direction of this exhibition.

Mark Wilson and Sue-an van der Zijpp are the curators of the Groninger Museum and they compiled the first large-scale solo exhibitions with work by Viktor & Rolf, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Marc Newson, Anuschka Blommers & Niels Schumm and Hussein Chalayan, among others. Wilson also curated the Azzedine Alaïa exhibition which later travelled on to the Brant Foundation in New York.

Book
In conjunction with NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, a book with more than 500 illustrations will be published to celebrate the past ten years. The book will offer a previously unpublished overview of the work of these remarkable designers, and will contain contributions by author Ingborg Harms and fashion theorist Francesca Granata.

Sponsor
The exhibition has been made possible by support from the Stichting Fonds Kunst en Economie (Art and Economy Foundation), an initiative of VNO-NCW Noord. This project is partly funded by the European Union and the Samenwerkingsverband Noord- Nederland, EZ/Kompas (North-Netherlands Co-operative Enterprise)

With thanks to Modemuseum (Momu), Antwerp.


Until 11 April 2010, the Groninger Museum will present the first large-scale solo exhibition of the work of artist Folkert de Jong (Egmond aan Zee, 1972) in the Netherlands. The exhibition displays a large selection of sculptures, drawings that have not been shown previously, and new monumental work.


Image: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 'Artistin-Marcella', 1910, Oil on canvas

For more information, please contact: Josee Selbach, jselbach@groningermuseum.nl, Evelien Bijlefeld, ebijlefeld@groningermuseum.nl, +31 (0)50-3666555

Opening december 13rd

Groninger Museum
Museumeiland 1 - 9711 ME Groningen
Hours of opening:: Tuesday through Sunday and holidays from 10 AM - 5 PM, Friday evenings until 10 PM.
Closed: on Mondays, 1 January, 25 December.
Admission
Adults euro 5,00
Cultural Youth Pass / Students / 65+ euro 4,00
Children 13 up to 17 years old euro 2,50
Children up to 12 years old free

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