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In(visible)

View into the collection #4

We encounter the invisible again and again in the history of art. The thematic focal points of the exhibition “Dark Matter. Thomas Ruff, James Welling”, such as the questioning of the depictive function of the photographic image, the serial, the pictorial engagement with space and architecture, are addressed in works by artists of different generations in various media. In surrealism, the enigmatic and the unconscious are revealed symbolically in the real, while abstraction in painting leads to different concepts of pictorial spaces that claim an autonomy that goes beyond the visible. Photography manifests categories such as temporality, memory and the flood of images and information, which lead to a loss of clarity and thus to invisibility.

KH BI Dark Matter 2740
Kunsthalle Bielefeld Ausstellung "Dark Matter" mit Werken von Thomas Ruff und James Welling vom 5.11.2021 bis 5.3.2023
In an exhibition room, an almost floor-to-ceiling shiny silver metal cylinder on castors, vertical. Behind it are two women, dressed in dark clothes, looking up at the cylinder.
(In)visible. View into the collection. Installation view. Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer

More from the archive

Abstract forms such as stripes, implied rectangles, egg shapes and surfaces in different colors. Partly the colors overlap, some shapes are painted quickly and look very moved.

Action, Gesture, Paint

Women artists and abstraction worldwide 1940-70
A drawing showing two cats, the tail of another cat and some star shapes. Cats and stars look as if they were floating around each other in the air. The colors are contrasting with blue, yellow, red, orange and purple to pink.

Keren Cytter. Hot Lava Night
Two pictures hang on a wall with reflective silver foil. On the left is a photo of an old doll with a black head and thick lips. The doll is broken: the right leg lies severed in front of her. Behind her is a dark blue background. On the right, a painting with a pile of toys against a white background: dolls, stuffed animals, cars, on top of which lies a doll with long limbs and a white dress.

Christa Dichgans | Paul McCarthy

Innocent Games? Face to Face and Side by Side #9
Several red houses with trees behind them and a green meadow in front.

Brauchen und Haben

Blick in die Sammlung #6
A brown lump of cloth wrapped with twine is mounted in an old picture frame. The background is golden, the wide border blue and gold, with a fine pattern. A plexiglass hood serves to protect the work. On both sides, white fabric panels hang from the ceiling.

Katrin Mayer / Christo

Shroud or unfold. facing each other #8
A postcard, with fountain pen in old handwriting, from 1914

Hermann Stenner

Letters, sketches, drawings. View of the archive
A structure of a house built of wood. Walkable, quite low for a house, with a gable roof. On some of the wooden posts are colored circular shapes on a white background. In all four corners of the structure are corner benches. In the center of the house a cylindrical stove.

Oscar Tuazon

What we need
Eine Landschaft. Bäume, Palmen, ein

Connections

Look into the collection #5
Von unten sind Eisbrocken an der Wasseroberfläche zu sehen. Licht scheint hindurch. Darunter im Wasser ein Taucher in der Ferne. Die Farben nur weiß und graublau.

Aurel Dahlgrün

Summit
Eine türkisgrüne Farbfläche. Darauf ein ausgerissenes Stück Pappe in der Form eines Trichters. Diese Form ist grau und am rechtren Rand helltürkis.

Yto Barrada

Bad Color Combos
Eine Skulptur einer abstrahierten menschlichen Figur. Die Beine sind schmal, der Oberkörper etwas breiter. Ihre Augen sind nur durch große Augenhöhlen angedeutet. Sieht ein bisschen aus wie schnell geknetet.

Alberto Giacometti / Martin Disler

Small and big demons. with each other opposite #7
Two walls across the corner in the Kunsthalle: on the left, a large right-angled triangle with a base line pointing from bottom left to top right. Running parallel to it are broad lines in friendly colors.

Michel Majerus / Kurt Schwitters

Face to Face and Side by Side #6
Bildschirm­foto 2022-12-01 um 11.14.22

Letting rooms speak

Architecture in film
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Thomas Ruff, James Welling

Dark Matter
A very dark exhibition room in the Kunsthalle. A kind of skeleton of a rowing boat hangs from the ceiling. Glowing white cords hang down from it, slightly rolled on the floor, their ends glowing like dots. At the back of the wall is a film projection with light reflections, presumably these cords in the water.

Following water
Two dancers in front of a wall relief by the artist Oskar Schlemmer. One dancer in track pants is in the front left of the picture, looking towards the relief. The other one is squatting on the floor a bit further back, looking to the right. Both can be seen the body tension. The relief shows a large seated wire figure carrying a small standing one. Only the dancer in the foreground can be seen sharply.

Oskar Schlemmer | TANZ Bielefeld. KUNSTFIGUR | VERKÖRPERT

miteinander gegenüber #5