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Exhibition | 01.05.2010 - 25.03.2012

Chronic Fluxitis

The Maria and Walter Schnepel Collection

The Bremen-based collectors Maria and Walter Schnepel are fascinated by works by artists who can be summed up under the term “Fluxus.” Their avant-garde spirit manifested itself in Europe, the United States, and Japan beginning in the 1960s. Fluxus artists refused to collaborate with museums, organized the first happenings and actions, and used all of the media available to them at the time for their subversive works of art. [more]

Exhibition | 21.01.2012 verlängert bis 29.04.2012

John Smith

Worst Case Scenario. Films from 1975-2003

The British artist John Smith (*1952 in London) has been making experimental films for more than three decades now. With their calculated idiom and ironic playfulness they count among the most important works of the contemporary film avant-garde. They are puzzling, sharp-witted, and above all funny. John Smith challenges us not to take anything we hear or say at face value, and in doing so puts the criteria of fact and fiction to the test. Focus is placed on his creative treatment of sound and image and the lightness and irony with which he creates space for viewers to rethink their own perception. [more]

Exhibition | 25.02.2012 - 28.05.2012

CIRCUS WOLS

An Homage

He is one of the most prominent artists of the 20th century, yet scarcely anyone knows his name. Art history views him as the pioneer of Art Informel painting, and yet the complexity of his artistic existence defies any categorization. In 1932, just nineteen years old, he leaves Germany to have his finger on the pulse of time in Paris. He gains access to bohemian circles there but continues to be a loner. For throughout his life he struggled for an existence beyond the middle-class, and in doing so not lastly slid into the vicissitudes of the National Socialist war against European culture. [more]

Robert Therrien: Ohne Titel (Butterfly), 1990, Sammlung Lafrenz © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010

Works of Art from the Collections

Double Rotation

Works from the Lafrenz Collection

The Lafrenz Collection has substantially influenced the self-concept and image of the Weserburg, the collector’s museum in the middle of the river Weser, since its inception. As early as the 1970s, the Hamburg-based pharmacist Dr. Klaus Lafrenz had assembled a powerful and unmistakable collection of key positions in Minimal Art, Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, and related art trends from the United States and Europe. What particularly stands out is their questioning of the media and materials as well as of the basic conditions of the artist’s perception of these. Indeed, most of Lafrenz’s paintings, sculptures, and installations do not represent anything in a mimetic sense, do not depict anything that might exist outside of themselves. Instead, they create in a sensorial way unmistakable situations and confrontations that are immediately transferred into the space and ultimately to the viewer as well. [more...]