Divided Views. Kunsthalle Bielefeld x KiCo Collection
, Part II: Will You Go With Me?
Artists
, Nevin Aladağ, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Monika Baer, Rosa Barba, Willi Baumeister, Max Beckmann, Monica Bonvicini, Shannon Bool, Andrea Büttner, Keren Cytter, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Marlene Dumas, Ceal Floyer, Günter Fruhtrunk, Christoph Girardet, Katharina Grosse, Hella Guth, Marcia Hafif, Charline von Heyl, Sheila Hicks, Gerhard Hoehme, Daniel Knorr, Maria Lassnig, Michel Majerus, László Moholy-Nagy, Matthias Müller, Senga Nengudi, Kenneth Noland, Francis Offman, Blinky Palermo, Tobias Pils, Sigmar Polke, Charlotte Posenenske, Man Ray, Franziska Reinbothe, Gerhard Richter, Jörg Sasse, Adrian Schiess, Phil Sims, Hiroshi Sugimoto, James Welling, Herbert Wilmsmeyer
“You have to dive into painting with both feet, ”said artist Maria Lassnig, describing her artistic process in an interview. Her work “Füsse” (1987/89) from the KiCo Collection symbolizes the second part of the exhibition, in which new directions are explored with the Kunsthalle Bielefeld’s collection, while at the same time opening up new perspectives. “Walking Together” means that works from two collections come together and enter into a dialogue, complementing, expanding upon, questioning, and even contradicting one another.
The exploration of painting, space, and abstraction from Classical Modernism to the present day forms the common thread of art history linking the collections. While the Kunsthalle’s collection focuses on German Expressionism and the American avant-garde of the 1960s, the KiCo Collection builds on this with works from the recent contemporary period.
“Will You Go With Me?” is conceived as a visible expression of a curatorial practice rooted in cooperation, openness, sustainability, and movement. The exhibition thus becomes an experimental space for reflection, where future perspectives on museum work are explored and the foundations of a shared cultural memory are reexamined.