Kunstkammer Contemporary II
Contemporary art at the Dresden Palace
The Kunstkammer Gegenwart complements the historical collections as a significant storehouse of knowledge and art with an archive of the present. With annually changing focal points, It provides insights into the extensive holdings of contemporary art at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
- Exhibition Site Residenzschloss
- Opening Hours daily 10—17, Tuesday closed
- Admission Fees normal 16 €, reduced 12 €, under 17 free, Groups (10 persons and more) 14,50 €
For the second year ?
Every fall, new works find their way into the Kunstkammer Contemporary. For this purpose, designer Konstantin Grčić has created a modular and flexible structure that alludes to the appearance and atmosphere of a depot. A workshop and corresponding educational make visible activities that are part of the museum's mission of collecting, preserving and communicating, but which usually take place behind closed museum doors.
HUMAN
For the second year, a central theme serves as a common thread in the selection from the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden large, contemporary collection. It is the keyword “human”. This adjective has multiple meanings and interpretations. It may suggest empathy, but also a striving for power, or else fallibility. And so this year’s exhibition is dedicated to multifarious artistic approaches to an understanding of “human,” as pursued in sculpture, painting, graphic and video work. Here, attention to what is “human” also invites the question of how the “inhuman” may be defined, not only in the sense of the monstrous, but also, for example, in the sense of the divine or the artificial. It again features works from the Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann, but also from the Albertinum, the Kunstfonds and the Kupferstich-Kabinett.
Impressions
With works by
Leonore Adler, Gerhard Altenbourg, Horst Antes, Madeleine Berkhemer, Monica Bonvicini, Emil Cimiotti, Birgit Dieker, Markus Draper, Tracey Emin, Eberhard Göschel, Josef Hegenbarth, Karin Heyne, Rebecca Horn, Günther Hornig, Craigie Horsfield, Zuzanna Janin, Sven Johne, Johannes Kahrs, Urs Lüthi, Frank Maasdorf, Ana Mendieta, Ernst Neizvestny, Eduardo Paolozzi, A. R. Penck, Chloe Piene, Uwe Piller, Kerstin Quandt, Jürgen Raiber, Arnulf Rainer, Detlef Reinemer, Carsten Saeger, Hans Scheib, Cornelia Schleime, Jürgen Schön, Gundula Schulze Eldowy, Frank Stella, Klaus-Michael Stephan, Hans Ticha, Ulrike Triebel, Petra Vohland, Andy Warhol, Suse Weber, Willi Wolff, Erwin Wortelkamp.
Multimedia tours
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Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann
Kunstkammer Gegenwart II. Zeitgenössische Kunst im Residenzschloss
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