The Desire for Freedom. Art in Europe since 1945

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   In the Atelier of History The Painting Collection of the German Historical Museum · 25 October 2012 to 21 April 2013, Exhibition Hall · In the Atelier of History.

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   30th Council of Europe Art Exhibition
   The Desire for Freedom. Art in Europe since 1945

   
   

   An exhibition of the German Historical Museum
   17 October 2012 to 10 February 2013
   
   Curators: Monika Flacke, Henry Meyric Hughes, Ulrike Schmiegelt

   
   

   How do we wish to live? What should we orientate ourselves by? What roles should do politics, the state and society play, in helping us to live out our lives, as worthy human beings? Does our desire for a socially and ecologically secure future count as a basic human right?
   
   The exhibition shows work by 113 artists from 28 countries in Europe, who have been concerned with the theme of freedom since 1945. Transcending all the inherited boundaries and divisions, it shows something of the enormous range of approaches to this question and of the variety of possible answers. Instead of attempting once more to examine the confrontation between the two power blocs in the Cold War, with their familiar ideological and political divisions, it seeks to trace their common roots in democracy and socialism, as offsprings of the Enlightenment. Both systems set themselves the challenge of realising the core values of the Enlightenment – Freedom, Equality and Human Rights.  But how were these to be understood?
   
   

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   In a cycle of 12 different sections, or 'chapters', the exhibition examines themes such as Reason, Utopia, Consumerism, Force, Sustainability and Self-Knowledge, which, in turn generates a number of fundamental questions about how we live in society. Artists such as Ian Hamilton Finlay, Fernand Léger, Damien Hirst, Armando, Tadeusz Kantor, Richard Hamilton, Boris Mikhailov, Oskar Rabin, Niki de Saint Phalle, Gerhard Richter, Aurora Reinhard, Christo, Arman, Mario Merz, Jordi Colomer, Raul Meel, Maria Lassnig, Eric Bulatov and Carlfriedrich Claus, provoke us to think about the way in which we lead our own lives.
   
   The exhibition has been created by the German Historical Museum, as the fruit of an international collaboration with 36 member states of the Council of Europe and is supported by the European Commission within the framework of its ‘Culture Programme’ (2007-2013). The partners within the project are the Collegium Hungaricum in Berlin; the Muzeum Sztuki Wspólczesnej MOCAK in Krakau, the Palazzo Reale in Mailand, the DOX Centrum současného umĕní in Prag; the Eesti Kunstimuuseum - Kumu Kunstimuuseum in Tallinn, and the Μακεδονικό Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης  (Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art) in Thessaloniki. After Berlin, the exhibition will tour to the following venues: Palazzo Reale Milan (15 March - 2 June 2013), KUMU Tallinn (21 June – 29 September 2013) and MOCAK, Krakow (18 October 2013 – 26 January 2014).
   
   
   
   

   Critique and Crisis: Art in Europe since 1945

   
   HMF loan
   16th October 2012 - 10th February 2013
   Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
   

   

   Helmet Head No.1

   lead 1950 (LH 279)
   

   
   The Foundation is lending Helmet Head No.1 1950 (LH 279) to this exhibition looking at art in Europe since 1945, to be held in the exhibition hall of the Deutsches Historisches Museum designed by I.M. Pei. Funded by the Council of Europe and curated by Prof. Monika Flacke.