Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Works of the Absolute Present
Works of the Absolute Present
24 January–19 March 2018
About the exhibition
About the exhibition

In the context of selected works from Africa
Anyone who has seen and experienced the performance of “Faust” by Anne Imhof in the German Pavilion at the 57th Biennale in Venice in 2017 witnessed an “absolute present”, whose essence is communicated to the viewer directly, indeed, at that very moment. Only on rare occasions is art so intense and existential.
Catalogue
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Excerpt
“Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a hypersensitive artist. Without his vulnerability as well as emotional and intellectual openness to the unusual, the otherness, he could not have created such an impressive body of work. It testifies to the greatest intensity and absolute present. At the same time, these qualities accompany his lifelong dilemma of craving continuous acknowledgement and recognition. If he did not receive them, he openly sought distraction from his subjectively perceived failures.”
Erika Schlessinger-Költzsch