Transitions

From 7 to 10 November 2024, the LBBW Collection will be showing a selection of works by a total of 16 artists who use various media to address the theme of transition in art, space, time, society and culture. ‘Transitions’ thus reflects processes of change: “Nature, every person, every society is in a process of constant change and transition,” says Birgit Wiesenhütter, explaining the curatorial perspective with which she is responsible for this year's collection presentation.

In addition to the multi-part, early wall piece ‘Replica I’ (1977/87) by Thomas Schütte and the video work by Tobias Rehberger entitled ‘84 Jahre’ (2002), a wall-filling wallpaper by Tim Berresheim will occupy the 240 square metre stand B-305 of the LBBW Collection in Hall 11.2. Berresheim, who has been working on computer-based visual worlds for over 20 years and is considered a pioneer of ‘augmented reality’ within contemporary art, constantly expands the perception of reality by creating illusions of three-dimensional spatiality or by removing the boundaries between the analogue and digital experience of art using specially programmed apps.

Works by Nevin Aladağ, Mona Ardeleanu and Haegue Yang, among others, illustrate ‘transitions’ from the perspective of cultural phenomena. Inspired by Indian architecture, Nevin Aladağ's series ‘Jali’ (Sanskrit for ‘net’, ‘grid’) presents hexagonal grid structures made of glazed ceramics, which are linked together like a jigsaw puzzle, oscillating between European scales and ribbon work and Arabic Mauresque. Similarly, Mona Ardeleanu's paintings also contain cultural set pieces, such as the reference to ‘Delft Blue’, which she uses as motif elements for her painted, fantastical creations. With her ‘Sonic Sculptures’, South Korean-born sculptor Hague Yang in turn endeavours to symbolise both intercultural and spiritual transitions, such as with her work ‘Sonic Celestial Rope’, a rope studded with bells that - based on a Korean fairy tale - connects earth and sky.

The collection presentation will be accompanied by two LBBW Art Talks in collaboration with MONOPOL magazine on Saturday, 9 November. The discussion partners will be the artist Tobias Rehberger and, in a further talk with Birgit Wiesenhütter, the curators of the collection Dr. Marie-Luise Zielonka and Barbara Thomann.