Shared/ Divided Views. Kunsthalle Bielefeld x KiCo Collection

“You have to dive into painting with both feet,” said the artist Maria Lassnig, describing her artistic process in an interview. Her work “Füsse” (Feet) (1987/89) from the KiCo Collection embodies the second part of the exhibition, in which new directions are explored with  Kunsthalle Bielefeld’s collection while opening up new perspectives. “Going out together” sees works from two collections come together and  enter into dialogue, complementing, expanding upon, questioning; and even contradicting one another. The exploration of painting, space and abstraction from early 20th century Modernism to the present forms the  art-historical thread that connects  the two collections. While the museums’ collection focuses on German Expressionism and the American avant-garde of the 1960s, the KiCo Collection features works from thecontemporary period. This interplay creates new lines of sight and highlights previously less visible perspectives.

Works in the Kunsthalle  Bielefeld collection — including pieces by Monica Bonvicini, Herbert Brandl, Gerhard Hoehme, Günter Fruhtrunk, Shannon Bool, Michel Majerus, and Charline von Heyl—can be complemented by additional works from the KiCo collection, thereby presenting the artists’ bodies of work in a more comprehensive manner.

Works by artists such as Marcia Hafif, Katharina Grosse, Sarah Morris, and Maria Lassnig, which were previously entirely absent from our collection, extend the artistic traditions established in our collection by artists such as Agnes Martin, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, and Georg Baselitz into more recent history. These selected works broaden the existing profile of our collection, demonstrating how perspectives can be opened up and shifted through collaborative collecting. Historical and contemporary positions enter into a dialogue. Traditional forms and concepts are juxtaposed with contemporary ones; sculptural and site-specific works intertwine; and photographic and media-based works expand the narrative dimension of the collections. “Do you want to go out with me?” is conceived as a visible expression of a curatorial practice rooted in cooperation, openness, sustainability, and movement. The exhibition thus becomes an experimental space for reflection, where future perspectives on museum work are explored and the foundations of a shared cultural memory are re-examined.

Artists:
Nevin Aladağ, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Monica Baer, Willi Baumeister, Shannon Bool, Andrea Büttner, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Ceal Floyer, Günter Fruhtrunk, Christoph Girardet, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Katharina Grosse, Hella Guth, Marcia Hafif, Charline von Heyl, Sheila Hicks, Gerhard Hoehme, Wassily Kandinsky, Ellsworth Kelly, Daniel Knorr, Maria Lassnig, Michel Majerus, Agnes Martin, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Matthias Müller, Senga Nengudi, Sigmar Polke, Man Ray, Franziska Reinbothe, Gerhard Richter, Adrian Schiess, Phil Sims among others

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