The exhibition Fallstudien. Works on paper of Karin Kneffel at Käthe Kollwitz Museum of Köln, is dedicated to the works on paper of the artists, 130 pieces that are shown for the first time. Many of these works are part of independent series and others are preliminar studies for big scale artworks.
Retrospective of Gao Xingjian, prolific author, winner in 2000 of the Nobel prize in Literature, Frenchman of Chinese descent, invites to discover the powerful and poetic work of an extraordinary contemporary artist. His work is devoted to the free exploration of a stream of consciousness through the movement of ink on paper. The awakening of consciousness, is an exhibition including six monumental works by Gao Xingjian, especially created for the room they are displayed in. In his ‘awakenings of consciousness’, the artist invites the wanderer to cross the image and to encounter, beyond the ink, the idea itself in its existential nudity.
Being fortunate is the latest exhibition on Martin Assig, whose drawings talk mainly about traditional religions, folklore, rituals, body consciousness, literature, music and philosophy. This exhibitions shows also, more than 200 works on paper from the St. Paul series, a group of work conceived as a tribute to Paul Klee that has been going on since 2009.
The exhibition After Landscape. Copied cities, curated by Martí Peran, shows a compilation of works that reflect the interest of contemporary art on documental processes and investigation, allowing a real approach to the copied cities phenomenon. This shows includes works by An Architektur, Joan Bennàssar, Jordi Bernadó, Stefanie Bürkle, Jordi Colomer, Scott Chandler, Domènec, Dan Dubowitz, Alejandro Fernández Mouján , David Goldblatt, Heidrund Holzfeind – Christoph Draeger, Luis Molina Pantin , Francesc Muñoz – Ramon Parramon – Octavi Rofes (amb la col.laboració de Blanca Muntadas), Andrea Robbins – Max Becher, Clarissa Tossin, Oriol Vilanova y Dave Wyatt.
