Wahrheit ist Arbeit

03.07.10—31.10.10

Past Exhibition

Truth is work.

The Villa Schöningen on the banks of the Glienicke Bridge in Potsdam, a place of encounter and exchange between East and West, presents the exhibition “Truth is Work” featuring works from the Falckenberg Collection by Werner Büttner, Martin Kippenberger, and Albert Oehlen.

The title refers to an exhibition curated by Zdenek Felix at the Folkwang Museum in Essen in 1984, featuring these three artists. They claimed the right to comment on every cultural misdevelopment and to seal almost every noteworthy event with art so that nothing would be lost from the beautiful imposition of life.

One could almost speak of a whimsical claim to exclusive representation, and the adhesive that bound this group to the times was their laughter against everything. The intention was to subvert the prevailing system of order and culture with corrosive satire. “Every person is an artist” was Joseph Beuys’s creed in the early ’70s. “Every artist is a person” was Kippenberger’s laconic response barely ten years later.

©Villa Schöningen

Traces of the Body

Current exhibition

The exhibition Traces of the Body presents the first solo exhibition in Germany of US-American artist Kylie Manning. Her paintings shift between figuration and abstraction. Bodies emerge as traces, dissolving into layered fields of color and light.

At Villa Schöningen, these works enter into dialogue with historical positions such as Jan Brueghel II, Marina Abramović or Anselm Kiefer. Together, they open new perspectives on visibility, memory, and the representation of the human body.

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