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Die Neue Sammlung

Fast 100 Jahre sind vergangen, seit die erste Einbauküche entwickelt wurde, bis hin zu den individuell konfigurierten Küchen von heute. Diese Zeitspanne war geprägt von Designern und Designerinnen, die immer wieder neue Lösungen entwickelten und damit auf gesellschaftliche Veränderungen und den Wandel unseres Alltagslebens reagierten.

Die Vielfalt reicht von der einfachen Kochzelle bis hin zur Küche als kommunikativem Zentrum des Wohnbereichs. Die Neue Sammlung präsentiert designhistorische Meilensteine der Küchengeschichte aus ihrem umfangreichen Bestand. Den Anfang macht die Frankfurter Küche von Grete Schütte-Lihotzky, gefolgt von Entwicklungen am Bauhaus und in der Nachkriegszeit, darunter Le Corbusiers Küche für die Unité d'Habitation in Marseille und Arne Jacobsens Interbauküche in Berlin.

Neue Ansätze repräsentieren Stefan Wewerkas Küchenbaum und die Werkbank von Herbert H. Schultes, die mit der Küche von J-Gast bis in die Gegenwart reichen. Diese Exponate zeigen die Vielfalt heutiger Anforderungen, neuer Ideen und gestalterischer Vorstellungen.

Anlässlich des 100-jährigen Jubiläums setzt Die Neue Sammlung in ihren Räumen neue thematische Schwerpunkte.

ab 7.11.2024

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Ästhetik der Freiheit

Ausstellung mit Gemälden, Skulpturen, Installationen und Videoarbeiten von John Bock, Maurizio Cattelan, Marguerite Humeau, Yayoi Kusama, Jonathan Meese, Pipilotti Rist und vielen weiteren internationalen Künstler*innen

Im allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch gilt eine exzentrische Haltung als überspannt und dekadent. Dabei ist Exzentrik viel mehr. Denn sie verweigert sich jeder Ideologie – für die Freiheit der Demokratie. Dies ist der Grundgedanke der ersten Ausstellung über das Potenzial von Exzentrik als Ästhetik der Freiheit. Im Zentrum steht die Kunst ab 1980, auch Mode, Design, Film und Architektur werden beispielhaft einbezogen. ECCENTRIC feiert die Vielfalt und Vielschichtigkeit der großen Themen Natur, Schönheit, Intimität, Humanismus.

Kuratiert von Eva Karcher und Bernhart Schwenk

25.10.2024 - 27.04.2025

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Between Advocacy, Journalism, and Law

Human rights violations are more visually present in the public domain than ever before. Inparticular, citizen-generated image and video content has become a significant piece of evidence that bears witness to violent and repressive incidents. In social networks, users share this material directly and often unfiltered, while media services integrate excerpts into official reports. Fact-finding and verification are of crucial importance in the competition for interpretation and narratives over what really happened. Distinct from the rapid-fire news engines in times of war and terror, Visual Investigations is concerned with the evaluation and transparent processing of such information. These dynamic teams include architects, filmmakers and computational engineers, who use spatial analysis and 3D modeling, for example, to uncover and visualize human rights abuses.

Together with journalists, activists, and lawyers, they are actively involved in creating a reliable basis for independent assessment and legal prosecution.
The Architekturmuseum der TUM is dedicating its planned exhibition to the emergent field of Visual Investigations and will use a series of case studies and research to show how the role of architecture operates between advocacy, journalism, and law in the pursuit of justice and accountability. Presentations include detention camps in China's Uyghur province of Xinjiang, police violence in the USA and the consequences of the climate crisis for Pacific Island states.

Curated by Lisa Luksch (A.M.) with SITU Research, N.Y. and Shumi Bose

10.10.2024 - 31.03.2025

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Books and illustrations for children

Children's books tell more than just stories. They stimulate the imagination, convey feelings and world views and help children to explore the world. They appeal to children and adults alike through their idiosyncratic narratives, but above all through their diverse and unusual illustrations and individual styles. Their creative appeal lies in the variety of illustrative possibilities, which range from detailed watercolors to linocuts and woodcuts to minimalist drawings, and can also evolve into animations or digital applications.
 

The exhibition presents selected works from the end of the 19th century to the present day. On display are international books and illustrations for children that surprise and fascinate with their creative and sophisticated design.
An interactive exhibition architecture invites children and adults alike to gain an insight into the development and great diversity of this subject.

11.10.2024 - 31.01.2025

Supported by PIN. Freunde der Pianktohek der Moderne e. V.

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ALMUT HEISE

Almut Heise's work is regarded as one of the most important positions in contemporary art. Over the decades, she has consistently created an unmistakable oeuvre of paintings and graphic art. Her realistic motifs, above all interiors and portraits, have a timeless effect and are characterised by their presence, which allows the everyday life of the figures depicted to fade into the background. Heise's art often raises more questions than it answers and has earned her the reputation of an ‘artist's artist’, which means she is held in high esteem among artists.

From the outset, she turned against the heroic gestures of German Art Informel, which had already ossified into a formula by her time, and instead favoured old-masterly fine painting - a quiet but impressive rebellion in a time of many styles. Even her stay in London in the 1970s, where she was influenced by Pop Art, only strengthened her own artistic position.

Parallel to painting, she developed a body of drawings from the mid-1960s onwards that left classical aspects of drawing behind and created a new approach to the art of drawing. Her coloured pencil drawings, which often focus on portraits and interiors, appear to be modelled from the surface, with the line losing significance. Initially conceived as studies for her paintings, over time these drawings became masterpieces in their own right.

Heise's portraits are characterised by a subtle change of expression over the decades, whereby she sensitively captures the passage of time and changes in the faces of her models. This precise power of observation is what makes her drawings so relevant. Heise joins the tradition of introspective portraiture, creating an independent, timeless view of people.

Her pictorial worlds, which combine both classical subjects and themes from everyday culture, radiate a subliminal restlessness that captivates the viewer despite their calm depiction.

Curated by Michael Hering, Director of the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich

21.09.2024 - 04.01.2025

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Party of Life 

With “Andy Warhol & Keith Haring. Party of Life,” Museum Brandhorst presents the world’s first comprehensive institutional exhibition dedicated to the two artists. The title of the show is borrowed from the motto of Keith Haring’s birthday celebrations: “Party of Life” tells of the cosmos of the 1980s, of MTV, discos, voguing, hip-hop, New Wave and graffiti. Within this context, the exhibition traces the two artists’ friendship. It reveals parallels in their artistic identity, their openness to cooperations and community projects, and their inclusive attitude: Art and its messages should reach as many people as possible.

The exhibition shows over 120 works by Warhol and Haring, collaborations between the two as well as works realized together with artists, performers, authors or music and fashion icons of the time. Alongside key works, it focuses on film and photography, archival material as well as posters, records and everyday objects designed by the artists. “Party of Life” will open up new perspectives on both artists at Museum Brandhorst, which houses the largest Warhol collection outside the United States with more than 120 works, as well as a growing body of Haring works.

Curated by Franziska Linhardt unter Mitarbeit von Arthur Fink

28.06.2024 - 26.01.2025

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Stories of Generosity and Voilence in Architecture 

This exhibition features gifted buildings—from spectacular to mundane, from extravagant to genuinely useful—that show how the unequal relationship between the giver and the receiver results in both generosity and violence exerted by and through architecture. What are the benefits of an architectural gift and how may it cause harm? We document how the giving and receiving of architecture impacts the production of these buildings, including their program, design, and materiality, as well as labor relations on the construction site. We consider the economic gains and political influence of the donors. We explore whether architectural gifts require reciprocity, and if so, what constitutes a counter-gift. We wonder if the obligations of the receiver and the giver persist after a building’s completion. What is the afterlife of a gifted building, and how is it perceived, maintained, and used by local communities?

Working with local researchers and communities, and using storytelling as a method, we present case studies on four continents to explore the generosity and violence of the gift-giving dynamic. These include stories of humanitarian gifts for Skopje, North Macedonia; the gift of land in Kumasi, Ghana; diplomatic gifts for Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; and philanthropic gifts in East Palo Alto, California, USA. At the end of the exhibition, we turn to Germany, showing how philanthropy continues to shape Munich and other German cities today.

Curated by Łukasz Stanek, Professor at the University of Michigan and Damjan Kokalevski Curator at A.M. der TUM

29.02.2024 - 08.09.2024

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On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Pinakothek der Moderne, the curators of the Sammlung Moderne Kunst are jointly conceiving the new hanging of the collection under the title MIX & MATCH. This presentation, characterized by curiosity and the joy of experimentation, breaks away from the historical sequence of styles and invites visitors to rediscover the collection in thematic rooms and unconventional juxtapositions that transcend epochs and media. Starting with key works from the fields of painting, sculpture, photography, video art, installation, and graphic art, themes relevant to 21st-century society such as community, migration, work, the environment, or violence and conflict are illuminated. Some 300 works and serial pieces spanning 120 years of art history are on view in 25 rooms covering more than 3,500 square feet. Featuring works by Etel Adnan, Max Beckmann, Aenne Biermann, David Claerbout, Peter Doig, Katharina Grosse, On Kawara, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Maria Lassnig, Albert Renger-Patzsch and Jeff Wall, among others.

Due to the extent of the renovations to 3,600 square meters of exhibition space, the themed rooms will be opened in stages. A first section can be visited from the end of March. We will celebrate the opening of all 25 rooms as part of the 20th anniversary of the Pinakothek der Moderne on the evening of September 14, 2022. We look forward to your visit!

15.09.2022 - 31.12.2024

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