Kaiser Wilhelm Museum
Joseph-Beuys-Platz 1
47798 Krefeld
Germany
Interactive spatial experiences
April 3–September 25, 2022
Haus Lange Haus Esters, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum
Adolf Luther
Haus Esters
With a solo exhibition at Haus Esters, the Kunstmuseen Krefeld will shed new light on the radicality and topicality of the artistic approach of Adolf Luther (Krefeld, Germany 1912–1990 Krefeld). The show highlights how the artist created spatial experiences with his objects and architectural integrations, in which the viewer takes on a key role. The exhibition, in collaboration with the Adolf Luther Foundation Krefeld, explores the findings of science and Enlightenment thought as impulses for artistic work of Adolf Luther.
Curators: Katia Baudin and Magdalena Broska
Julio Le Parc
Haus Lange, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum
Julio Le Parc (b. 1928 in Mendoza, Argentina, lives in Paris) is one of the most influential artists of the late 20th century. With his first major institutional solo exhibition in Germany since 1972, the show sets out to rediscover the oeuvre of the co-founder of the artist group G.R.A.V. In Haus Lange, various aspects of visitor participation in his works are presented: from kinetic objects to game installations and surveys to labyrinths. At the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, the show continues with expansive light installations.
Curator: Katia Baudin
The exhibitions are part of the series of dialogs between Haus Lange and Haus Esters.
Living Abstraction
October 23, 2022–February 26, 2023
Haus Lange Haus Esters
Maison Sonia: Sonia Delaunay and the Atelier Simultané
Haus Lange
For the first time, textile designs by Sonia Delaunay (Odessa, Ukraine, 1885–1979, Paris) acquired in 2019 will be presented in the context of her paintings, interior and fashion together with international loans. The exhibition is the first in the German-speaking world to be dedicated to Delaunay as a pioneer of transdisciplinary art with a focus on her textiles. It demonstrates how she transferred her color philosophy, which she developed in her painting, to the media and surfaces of modern life.
Curators: Katia Baudin and Waleria Dorogova
Andrea Zittel: Panels, Patterns
Haus Esters
For her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany in 20 years, the American artist Andrea Zittel (b. 1965 in Escondido, CA, lives in Joshua Tree, CA) will expand her installation in the garden house of Haus Esters (2019) to include the iconic Villa by Mies van der Rohe. The exhibition explores her artistic research into everyday life. Zittel uses living spaces to investigate the psychological and social effects of the “abstract” designs of our living environment, consisting of geometric "panels" and "patterns". In the exhibition, Zittel will make new references to avant-garde strategies and the modernist ideal of the convergence of art and life.
In summertime, prior to the exhibition, Zittel’s site-specific work for the garden house of Haus Esters will be extended into the garden.
Curator: Juliane Duft
The exhibitions are part of the series of dialogs between Haus Lange and Haus Esters.
Live on Air: The Sound of the Material in the Art of the 1950s to 1970s
November 25, 2022–March 26, 2023
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum
The exhibition is dedicated to the invisible material of sound in the art of the 1950s to ’70s. In this experimental period, boundaries in art were broken down. Sounds, tones, noises, signals, and voices also became “substantial” sculptural material. Hearing now enriched sensual perception. The focus is on sound objects by artists such as, among others, Yaakov Agam, Mary Bauermeister, Jannis Kounellis, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, and David Tudor.
Curator: Sylvia Martin
Collection Satellites
Since 2018, the Collection Satellite series invites artists and designers to engage in an innovative dialogue with the museum’s collections, its history, and architecture.
Collection Satellite #7
Robert Stadler. K+
Launching in the spring of 2022
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum
Art and life, tradition and innovation merge in the Gesamtkunstwerk K+ Café im KWM, designed by the designer Robert Stadler (b. 1966 in Vienna, lives in Paris). As a café, site-specific installation, and multifunctional space, it invites visitors to come together for coffee breaks, talks, screenings, and much more. In close cooperation with craftsmen and industry, a flexible coffee house interior was created. The project transports the founding principle of the museum as a public platform which encourages connections between art, craft, and industry into the now.
Curators: Katia Baudin with Juliane Duft
Collection Satellite #8
Shannon Bool meets Otto Eckmann (working title)
June 9, 2022–spring 2023
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum
The Jugendstil designer Otto Eckmann (Hamburg, 1865–1902 Badenweiler, Germany) was a key figure in the founding period of the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, which owns part of his estate, including sketchbooks, drawings, prints, designs and textiles. The Canadian artist Shannon Bool (b. 1972, lives in Berlin) will approach this collection and develop her own works in confrontation with Eckmann’s oeuvre. For her works, Bool collages and superimposes motifs from tradition and modernity, from everyday culture, fashion design, and architecture.
Curator: Magdalena Holzhey
Contacts: Katia Baudin, Director Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Thomas Janzen, Education and Public Programs, servicekunstmuseen [at] krefeld.de
The Kunstmuseen Krefeld is a cultural institution of the city of Krefeld.
