Landscapes
Florenz & Istanbul
19 February –20 August 2023
Öl auf Pappe
49,4 x 62,4 cm
Museum Schloss Moyland
Foto: Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland/Maurice Dorren
Based on the museum's collection, the exhibition examines the significance of nature and its fragile status in art from the 19th century to the present. Confronted with climate change, the extinction of species and the imminent loss of the basis of our life, nature, the explosive question of how man can serve the preservation of nature was already central to the life and work of Joseph Beuys and his contemporaries in the 20th century. With the arrival of the Anthropocene in the 21st century, these issues are more than ever in the focus of artists.
Environmental problems of our time must be viewed globally and, as far as possible, solved and/or contained collectively. This is why the exhibition brings together artists who look at these issues from different cultural backgrounds and perspectives, or who combine them. In the show, East and West, present and past enter into a sensually tangible, immersive and multi-layered dialogue.
At the same time, the show brings artists from Germany, the Lower Rhine region and the Netherlands into an enriching dialogue with those from Turkey and the Middle East. This east-western view of nature and landscape approaches the presentness of the theme of nature in art. In the process, it becomes clear that the question of the image of landscape is a political one. While classical images of nature, with recourse to the conventions of Dutch landscape painting, cling to the sublime nature, in contemporary representations on both sides it often becomes a problem carrier and the scene of human intervention.
Among the artists exhibited are Elisabeth Luise Andrae, Marwan Bassiouni, Burkhart Beyerle, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Elmas Deniz, Wilhelm den Ouden, Ulrich Erben, Elger Esser, Fanny von Geiger-Weishaupt, Clara Joswich-Rodatz, Shila Khatami, Hanns Lamers, Emmy Lischke, David Roth, Yasam Sasmazer, Hermann Teuber, Martel Wiegand and many others.
A catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition.
The exhibition is sponsored by:
Gallery
Elger Esser, Etang du Batéguier I, 2020 Kupferplatte versilbert, Direktdruck, Schellack 26,5 x 33 x 4 cm © Elger Esser / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023 Courtesy Van der Grinten Galerie, Köln
Elisabeth Andrae, Schleppdampfer auf der Havel, Spandau, (um 1926/1928) Öl auf Karton 42 x 35 cm Museum Schloss Moyland Foto: Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland/Maurice Dorren
Elmas Deniz, Eluding Humans, 2019 Lightbox Courtesy Elmas Deniz und Zilberman Gallery, Berlin
Emmy Lischke, Ufer bei Quiberon (Bretagne), 1910 Öl auf Pappe 49,4 x 62,4 cm Museum Schloss Moyland Foto: Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland/Maurice Dorren
Shila Khatami, California, 2008 Lack, Acryl auf Leinwand 80 x 55 cm © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023 Foto: Shila Khatami Courtesy Shila Khatami und Clages Gallery, Köln
Manufactures Céramiques d'Hemixem Gilliot & Cie Hemiksen, Hemiksen, Belgien, unbetitelt (Ziegel, Art Nouveau, Belgien), undatiert (um 1910) Keramik, gebrannt mit farbiger Glasur, Motiv eingeprägt 15,2 x 15,2 x 0,8 cm Museum Schloss Moyland Foto: Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland/ Maurice Dorren
Marwan Bassiouni, New British Views #6, England, 2021 Farbpigmentdruck auf Dibond montiert, gerahmt 166,5 x 125 x 5 cm Galerie Dürst Britt & Mayhew, Den Haag
Ludwig Willem Reymert Wenckebach, o.T., undatiert Tusche auf Büttenpapier, 23,8 x 37,7 cm Museum Schloss Moyland Foto: Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland/ Maurice Dorren
Rolf Sackenheim, Florenz, 1982 Vintage Print, Bromsilbergelatine, glänzend, PE-Papier 30,5 x 21 cm Museum Schloss Moyland © Rolf Sackenheim Foto: Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland/Maurice Dorren
Ute Klophaus, Vor der Nacht, 1961 Bromsilbergelatine, Barytabzug © bpk / Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland / Ute Klophaus / Leihgabe der Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung
Yasam Sasmazer, Sojourn, 2021–2022 Erde, Moos, Flechte, Pflanzen, Pilze, Steine, ungebrannter Ton, Pappmaché, Styrofoam Courtesy Yasam Sasmazer und Zilberman Gallery, Berlin Hergestellt mit Unterstützung von Arter
David Roth, White on White, 2021 Videostill, 07:51 Min. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023 Foto: © David Roth, 2023 Courtesy David Roth und Galerie Dürst Britt & Mayhew, Den Haag