2003 Frankfurter Kunstverein EXHIBITION
The title’s specifically German element is more a response to the needs and social circumstances that have given rise to painting’s present (return to) popularity, and to the strategies young artists in particular are developing to meet this. The focus is on individual approaches that seem symptomatic at present insofar as they strive to occupy up-to-date positions, adopting diverse strategies to integrate painting’s historical potential for critique and reflection.
Aside from the general “Back to painting” trend, it is not only numerous figurative positions that evince a “politicisation” of the discourse of painting; more abstract positions also increasingly try to analyse what formal significance painting may still have after conceptual art’s interrogations, and how questions as to the picture’s limits and outward-directedness can be posed anew via categories such as ornament and decoration.
The exhibition presented over 50 current positions of predominantly younger German or in Germany living artists. Numerous works were realized directly locally in the Frankfurter Kunstverein as wall painting.
Curators: René Zechlin, Nicolaus Schafhausen
Artists: Tomma Abts, Yesim Akdeniz Graf, Kai Althoff, Monika Baer, Frank Bauer, Dirk Bell, Ümit Bilgi, Henning Bohl, André Butzer, Thomas Eggerer, Tim Eitel, Jesko Fezer / Axel John Wieder, Lutz Fezer, Christian Flamm, Carsten Fock, Caroline von Grone, Katharina Grosse, Gabi Hamm, Sebastian Hammwöhner / Uwe Henneken / Dani Jakob / Gabriel Vormstein, Klaus Hartmann, Eberhard Havekost, Thilo Heinzmann, Andreas Hofer, Sergej Jensen, Johannes Kahrs, Kiron Khosla, Jutta Koether, Hendrik Krawen, Kalin Lindena, Dietmar Lutz, Antje Majewski, Bernhard Martin, Rupprecht Matthies, Jonathan Meese, Birgit Megerle, Stephan Melzl, Klaus Merkel, Stefan Müller, Martin Neumaier, Frank Nitsche, Silke Otto-Knapp, Susanne Paesler, Gunter Reski, Anselm Reyle, Thomas Scheibitz, Tilo Schulz, Andreas Schulze, Eva Schwab, Markus Selg, Torsten Slama, Johannes Spehr, Lee Thomas Taylor, Wawrzyniec Tokarski, Corinne Wasmuht, Thomas Werner, Johannes Wohnseifer, aniela Wolfer, Katharina Wulff, Amelie von Wulffen
Logo by Liam Gillick
A catalogue with a text of Ingo Niermann has been published for the exhibition.
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