This is 2024 at the SCHIRN! From hip-hop and art in the 21st century, to Selma Selman, the self-proclaimed "most dangerous artist in the world", to the Casablanca Art School and a major retrospective of Hans Haacke.
MELIKE KARA: SHALLOW LAKES
Melike Kara (b. 1985) creates spaces for remembrance. With an examination of her family roots as a point of departure, Kara’s installations raise questions regarding identity, migration, and visibility. Taking as a basis her archive of photographs from various private sources, which has been growing continuously since 2014, the artist studies the visual culture of the Kurdish diaspora. The artist is developing a location-specific, extensive work for the Rotunda of the SCHIRN.
THE CULTURE: HIP HOP AND CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the birth Hip Hop, the SCHIRN is dedicating a major interdisciplinary exhibition to Hip Hop’s profound influence on our current art and cultural landscape. Grounded on the origins of Hip Hop in the U.S., yet with a focus on art and music from the last twenty years, THE CULTURE features over 100 paintings, photographs, sculptures, and videos, as well as fashion and vinyl, by internationally renowned contemporary artists.
The exhibition is co-organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Saint Louis Art Museum and is presented in collaboration with SCHIRN.
COSIMA VON BONIN: FEELINGS
Cosima von Bonin (b. 1962) creates transformations of the everyday. With Feelings, the SCHIRN is presenting a unique scenario by Cosima von Bonin in which the artist contrasts recent works previously unseen in Germany with well-known pieces. For her expansive exhibitions she draws on numerous references from popular culture as well as from film, fashion, music, and art. Evoking exhausted cuddly toys, soft fences, rockets, or cartoon figures like Daffy Duck and Bambi—Bonin combines a variety of protagonists to form an ensemble, a community of social connections.
SELMA SELMAN: FLOWERS OF LIFE
The SCHIRN is dedicating a major solo exhibition to Selma Selman, presenting specially developed new works. The artist advanced confidently and vigorously into the international art world just a few years ago, describing herself as “the world’s most dangerous artist.” Selman’s art describes impressively, and through a variety of media, autobiographical experiences of discrimination, violence, patriarchy, and sexism.
CASABLANCA ART SCHOOL: A POSTCOLONIAL AVANTGARDE 1962–1987
Just a few years after Morocco gained independence in 1956, a vibrant center of cultural renewal developed in Casablanca. With the exhibition the SCHIRN is presenting the unique and influential work of of this innovative school in a first major exhibition, one that is long overdue.
An exhibition organized by SCHIRN, Tate St Ives, and Sharjah Art Foundation
CAROL RAMA
The SCHIRN is showing the first comprehensive survey exhibition in Germany of Carol Rama with works from all phases of her remarkable oeuvre. Sexuality, passion, disease, death— the Turin-based Italian artist dedicated her art to the great human themes and elemental experiences. She is one of the outstanding artists of the modern age who achieved fame late in life. She remained independent of schools and artistic groupings and created an unconventional and yet highly personal body of work over the course of about sixty years.
HANS HAACKE
Hans Haacke has shaped “political art” to a greater extent than any other artist of his generation. Keen criticism of institutions, political awareness, and an uncompromising defense of democratic principles to the point of activism all characterize his approach. In a wide-ranging retrospective, the SCHIRN will be examining Haacke’s influential oeuvre from 1959 to the present day. With some 70 paintings, objects, photographs, and installations, the exhibition demonstrates how Haacke became one of the most important political artists on the international art stage.
An exhibition organized by SCHIRN in cooperation with Belvedere, Vienna.
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