Vito Acconci
Kenneth Anger
Richard Artschwager
Eugene Atget
Vanessa Beecroft
Blur & David Mould
Marc Brandenburg
Pablo Bronstein
Pavel Buchler
Giorgio de Chirico
David Claerbout
Paul Delvaux
Kota Ezawa
Patrick Faigenbaum
Laurent Fievet
Yang Fudong
FORT
Alberto Giacometti
Douglas Gordon
Rodney Graham
Marie Harnett
Howard Kanovitz
Alex Katz
Jeff Koons
Kurt Kranz
Karl Lagerfeld
Robert Longo
Bruce Nauman
Rene Magritte
Roman Opalka
Manuel Outumuro
Georges Pierre
Gerhard Richter
Sam Samore
Cindy Sherman
Cerith Wyn Evans
A Film as Art. The exhibition brought together exceptional international exhibits in video, animation, and installation art, as well as paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs and architecture which are supplemented by examples from pop culture and fashion from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.
The 1961 film L'Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad), directed by Alain Resnais, wrote history: more radically than any previous film, Resnais' cinematic adaptation of Alain Robbe-Grillet's avant-garde nouveau roman broke with traditional structures of time, place and causality. This ultramodern pioneering work plays with an artistic language in which the style itself becomes the content alongside geometrical forms, architectural lines and repetitive basic compositional principles. Internationally acclaimed, the Marienbad film not only influenced directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Peter Greenaway, David Lynch and Lars von Trier, but also defined an understanding of art that has affected all artistic areas and one that remains relevant to the present day.
The exhibition Last Year in Marienbad: A Film as Art, conceived by the Kunsthalle Bremen, demonstrates for the first time how influential the Nouvelle Vague aesthetic that distinguishes the Marienbad film has been on the visual arts and will provide visitors with an understanding of its lasting international relevance. To illustrate this, the Kunsthalle Bremen brought together exceptional international exhibits in video, animation, and installation art, as well as paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs and architecture which are supplemented by examples from pop culture and fashion from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.
Artists represented in the exhibition:
Vito Acconci, Kenneth Anger, Richard Artschwager, Eugène Atget, Vanessa Beecroft, Blur & David Mould, Marc Brandenburg, Pablo Bronstein, Pavel Büchler, Giorgio de Chirico, David Claerbout, Paul Delvaux, Kota Ezawa, Patrick Faigenbaum, Laurent Fiévet, Yang Fudong, FORT, Alberto Giacometti, Douglas Gordon, Rodney Graham, Marie Harnett, Howard Kanovitz, Alex Katz, Jeff Koons, Kurt Kranz, Karl Lagerfeld/Chanel, Robert Longo, Bruce Nauman, René Magritte, Roman Opałka, Manuel Outumuro, Georges Pierre, Gerhard Richter, Sam Samore, Cindy Sherman, Cerith Wyn Evans.
Catalogue:
The exhibition catalogue (Wienand Verlag) is published in English and German. It includes articles by Vito Acconci, Stefanie Diekmann, Eva Fischer-Hausdorf, Michael Glasmeier, Christoph Grunenberg (Marienbad-exhibition-curator), Steven Jacobs, Sarah Leperchey, Sophie Rudolph and Hunter Vaughan.
Image: Giorgio de Chirico, Piazza d’Italia con statua, undatiert, Öl auf Leinwand, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2015, Foto: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / Roger-Viollet
Press contact:
Jasmin Mickein Fax +49 (0)421 329 08-470 presse@kunsthalle-bremen.de
Kunsthalle Bremen
Am Wall 207 28195 Bremen Germany
Hours:
Tuesday 10am–9pm,
Wednesday–Sunday 10am–5pm
Admission:
Adults € 8,-
Reduced Fee* € 5,-
Children under 6 free
Aged 6–21 € 3,50