SOCIAL SEATING
No. 9 in the Rotunda project series
For Rotunda Project no. 9, Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum is addressing a topic that relates to the idea of “sitting as a collective experience” and “sitting as a form of communication”. For a whole year, visitors to Pinakothek der Moderne will be greeted by a world of different types of furniture for seating. These invite people to take a seat and interact. The encounter between the museum visitors is staged in the museum space as social seating. The focus here is on the opportunity for open communication with other museum visitors as well as our relationship to seating and to objects that function as seating.
“Social seating” is often used to describe a service that is provided in order to promote social networking. Passengers in airplanes or participants in events can rely on social media data to consciously choose who sits next to them, whereby all data is made available voluntarily.
In the Pinakothek der Moderne Rotunda, people will be able to meet one another spontaneously and sit leisurely on the seating items. The latter have been chosen deliberately to foster shared experiences and help people get into conversation with each other.
The total of 15 seating objects put on display by Die Neue Sammlung are international designs dating from the 1950s to the present. The exhibition reflects on the temporal and social contexts of collective seating, on playful, modular, and experimental proposals, and on how industrial design is rethinking its methods as regards materials and sustainability.
Against the backdrop of growing “social estrangement” triggered by the virtual world and the increasing digitization of social and professional life, our Social Seating exhibition seeks to broach direct contact between people and promote analog conversations.
In this context, the Rotunda will assume a new quality. It will for the duration of the show function as a shared leisure-time space and communicative center.
26.04.2024-11.05.2024
Supported by PIN. Freunde der Pinakothek der Moderne
CASE STUDIES ON RUBENS
Slawomir Elsner. Careers by Design. Hendrick Goltzius & Peter Paul Rubens
No other motif better confirms the fact that Rubens’ daring inventions still fascinate us and that many of his works seem extremely modern today than his double portrait The Honeysuckle Bower at Alte Pinakothek München. In this painting, Isabella Brant and Peter Paul Rubens present themselves as a couple newly in love. For this part of our double exhibition, artist Slawomir Elsner (*1976) directs his attention on the much beloved masterwork and, by way of his project Case Studies, investigates it before our very eyes. In his suite of twelve large-format drawings, all created especially for this exhibition and the same size as the painting (178 x 136,5 cm), the artist uses drawings for his ‘case study’ and through them articulates his question after the relevance and meaning of the original. He goes so far as to make the motif vibrate before our eyes in his drawn reminiscences of image and afterimage, or else, to challenge our perception and recollection of Rubens’ painting with his fields of watercolor.
Ultimately, his imaginatively rendered artistic Case Study aims at posing to us the question after the fate of art works within our personal hoard of images in the age of digital availability. In which manner do historical paintings of the rank of The Honeysuckle Bower address us, what do we remember after our museum visit and what kind of independent life does the image take on in our memory? We predict that Case Studies by Slawomir Elsner will afford visitors the pleasure of analog viewing and an opportunity to visit both the Pinakothek der Moderne and the Alte Pinakothek.
Dr. Michael Hering
13.06.2024 - 15.09.2024
Supported by PIN. Freunde der Pinakothek der Moderne
ANDY WARHOL & KEITH HARING
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
THE COLOR OF GLASS
Glass in its technical diversity and brilliant colorfulness is shown by Die Neue Sammlung in a selection of its highlights.
Series-produced hollow glass for everyday use, unique, free objects made of glass as well as architectural designs – not only the fascination of colorless and colored glass, but also technical artistry, versatile design vocabulary and different functional requirements are topics of the show.
The history of the collection is also reflected: it has been collected internationally and contemporary.
In a spatial staging, design, craftsmanship and free art are intertwined and complemented by contemporary positions from the fields of architecture and photography.
In view of the 100th anniversary, Die Neue Sammlung is setting new thematic priorities in its rooms.
Exhibition design:
OHA (Sami Ayadi, Jan Heinzelmann)
05.07.2024 - 02.06.2040
Supported by PIN. Freunde der Pinakothek der Moderne
VISUAL INVESTIGATIONS
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
WEHRE THE WILD STROKES ARE
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.
ECCENTRIC
The Aesthetics of Freedom
Exhibition with paintings, sculptures, installations and video works by John Bock, Maurizio Cattelan, Marguerite Humeau, Yayoi Kusama, Jonathan Meese, Pipilotti Rist and many other international artists*.
In common parlance, an eccentric attitude is considered to be extravagant and decadent. But eccentricity is much more. Because it refuses any ideology - for the freedom of democracy. This is the basic idea behind the first exhibition on the potential of eccentricity as an aesthetic of freedom. The focus is on art from 1980 onwards, but fashion, design, film and architecture are also included in an exemplary way. ECCENTRIC celebrates the diversity and complexity of the great themes of nature, beauty, intimacy and humanism.
Curated by Eva Karcher and Bernhart Schwenk
25.10.2024 - 27.04.2025
FURTHER EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS SPONSORD BY PIN. IN 2024
Museum Brandhorst
Brandhorst Artist Talks
Throughout the year
Pinakothek der Moderne
Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum
Kitchen Culture
beginning 11.2024
Rotunda Project: Ngozi-Omeje Ezema
beginning 12.2024
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung
Matthew Barney - Drawing Restraint
17.10.2024 until 12.1.2025
More information will follow soon