Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
October 2021
October 29, 2021–February 13, 2022
With almost 200 preeminent works from painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, installation, and video art, the Bundeskunsthalle presents a comprehensive overview of modern and contemporary art from the important private collection of Erika and Rolf Hoffmann. The Hoffmanns made their first acquisitions as early as the 1960s and embraced direct dialogue and intensive exchange with the artists as the fundamental basis for their decisions. The exhibition provides deep insight into the collection in its individuality, subjectivity, and also privacy, furthering Erika Hoffmann’s description of the works as “family members.”
The dialogic, corresponding and synergetic principle of the collection spans borders and generations and is clearly recognizable through an open and cross-media presentation. The exhibition offers surprising correspondence and reflects on timeless yet fundamental existential and philosophical questions that are still valid in our society today. Concepts such as energy, radicalism, innovation, transience, physicality, or volatility are expressed through the work of artists such as Carla Accardi, Yael Bartana, Christian Boltanski, Monica Bonvicini, Isa Genzken, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Georg Herold, Barbara Kruger, Yayoi Kusama, Ernesto Neto, Julian Rosefeldt, Frank Stella, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Andy Warhol.