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Paula Modersohn-Becker / Ian Wilson

Brush, line and assertion - face to face and side by side #10

An empty room with pink walls and a dark tiled floor. A small portrait hangs on the left wall. On the right wall is white text. A large white circle is drawn in chalk in the middle of the floor between them.
Installation view Kunsthalle Bielefeld: Ian Wilson, Circle on the Floor #14, 1968, chalk, Haubrok Collection and Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) self-portrait, bust portrait with brush in raised hand 1902, photo: Philip Fröhlich
Portrait of a young woman, up to the breast. The brushstrokes are clearly visible. A window in the background. She is wearing her brown hair tied back, a yellowish-blue collar that looks like a necklace and a dark top. She is holding a paintbrush in her left hand.
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) Self-portrait, bust portrait with brush in raised hand 1902 Oil on cardboard Gift from Dr. Friedrich Johenning, Düsseldorf, in grateful memory of his grandparents Carl and Katharina Miele, née zu Wickern 2017, Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer

In the exhibition series “face to face and side by side”, a work from the collection of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld meets a selected loan from another institution. This encounter leads to new, often surprising perspectives.

The work “Self-Portrait. Half-length portrait with brush in raised hand”, 1902, by Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) from the Kunsthalle collection meets the work “Circle on the Floor #14”, 1968/2024, by the South African-American conceptual artist Ian Wilson (1940-2020) from the Haubrok Collection. While Modersohn-Becker portrays herself with a brush in her hand, demonstratively positioning herself as a painter in a groundbreaking way for the period around 1900, Ian Wilson asserts a sculpture, detached from a context, with a circle drawn on the floor with chalk.

An empty room with a pink wall and dark tiled floor. A large white circle is drawn on it with chalk.
Installation view Kunsthalle Bielefeld: Ian Wilson, Circle on the Floor #14, 1968, chalk, Haubrok Collection, photo: Philip Fröhlich

The exhibition is organized in cooperation with the haubrok foundation.

The exhibition series is produced in cooperation with the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1288 “Practices of Comparison. Arranging and Changing the World” at Bielefeld University.

Face to Face
and Side by Side

The series “face to face and side by side” focuses on a work from the collection of Kunsthalle Bielefeld that addresses central issues in juxtaposition with a selected external work. The focus is always on a concentrated comparison of the selected works.

An empty room with a pink wall and dark tiled floor. A large white circle is drawn on it with chalk.
Installation view Kunsthalle Bielefeld: Ian Wilson, Circle on the Floor #14, 1968, chalk, Haubrok Collection, photo: Philip Fröhlich
Portrait of a young woman, up to the breast. The brushstrokes are clearly visible. A window in the background. She is wearing her brown hair tied back, a yellowish-blue collar that looks like a necklace and a dark top. She is holding a paintbrush in her left hand.
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) Self-portrait, bust portrait with brush in raised hand 1902 Oil on cardboard Gift from Dr. Friedrich Johenning, Düsseldorf, in grateful memory of his grandparents Carl and Katharina Miele, née zu Wickern 2017, Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer
An empty room with pink walls and a dark tiled floor. A small portrait hangs on the left wall. On the right wall is white text. A large white circle is drawn in chalk in the middle of the floor between them.
Installation view Kunsthalle Bielefeld: Ian Wilson, Circle on the Floor #14, 1968, chalk, Haubrok Collection and Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) self-portrait, bust portrait with brush in raised hand 1902, photo: Philip Fröhlich

Highlights

Tickets

The Kunsthalle puts in a late shift for night owls and art fans and opens its doors with exciting events:

From 18:00-22:00 Karola Eisenblätter and Lea Müßinger invite you to creative activities in the painting room (no registration required).
You can take a look inside our virtual art gallery with VR headsets until 23:00 (always on the hour and half hour, meeting point in the lobby under the stairs).
The Bielefeld Music and Art School will enliven the sculpture park with exciting performances.

More information about the night views and tickets for the evening can be found here: https://www.bielefeld.jetzt/nachtansichten

On this day, six Bielefeld museums (Historisches Museum, Kunstforum Hermann Stenner, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Museum Huelsmann, Naturkunde- Museum and Kunsthalle Bielefeld) in cooperation with the association “Bielefelder Konsens – Pro Bielefeld” invite you to the 3rd museum rally for young and old.

You can find out what else is going on with us on International Museum Day in our calendar as individual events for May 19. see.

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Events

Tickets

The Kunsthalle puts in a late shift for night owls and art fans and opens its doors with exciting events:

From 18:00-22:00 Karola Eisenblätter and Lea Müßinger invite you to creative activities in the painting room (no registration required).
You can take a look inside our virtual art gallery with VR headsets until 23:00 (always on the hour and half hour, meeting point in the lobby under the stairs).
The Bielefeld Music and Art School will enliven the sculpture park with exciting performances.

More information about the night views and tickets for the evening can be found here: https://www.bielefeld.jetzt/nachtansichten

Tickets

Guided tour of our current exhibitions.
anmeldung@kunsthalle-bielefeld.de
T 0521 329995018

Tickets

Guided tour of our current exhibitions.

anmeldung@kunsthalle-bielefeld.de
T 0521 329995018

Tickets

Guided tour of our current exhibitions.
anmeldung@kunsthalle-bielefeld.de
T 0521 329995018

Tickets

Guided tour of our current exhibitions.

anmeldung@kunsthalle-bielefeld.de
T 0521 329995018

Journal

Between color volume, drippings and braiding
German women artists of the Informel after 1945

Black and white photograph of a woman pouring paint from a pot onto the floor.

In the literature on Art Informel, abstract art in Germany after 1945, the role of women in this art movement is rarely mentioned. This is where we begin to fill this void. We present four German women artists of the post-war period and explain the special German cultural scene of the time in which they were active.

Black and white photograph of a woman pouring paint from a pot onto the floor.