UPCOMING

Kiriakos Tompolidis has set up shop in Museum Folkwang. In The Quiet Hour one steps into a kind of room long lived in; there, the artist, a native of Essen (born in 1997) toys with fragments from his memory. He has produced seven paintings specially for the exhibition, and in terms of content art history references and personal memories overlap, while formally speaking photographical elements meld with painting. Sleep without …

The experimental years of non-representational photography were marked by debates and position statements articulated by a young generation. After Gottfried Jäger discovered the book Kunst und Konstruktion (Art and Construction) by computer pioneer and science fiction author Herbert W. Franke in 1958, an artistic exchange developed over the course of decades.

The exhibition shows a selection of works by graduates of the master’s degree programme Photography Studies & Practice at the Folkwang University of the Arts. The two Folkwang institutions are thus continuing a collaboration that began in 2016 with the Stopover series.

For the first time, an exhibition is dedicated to the former “Department of Islamic Arts” at Museum Folkwang and its resonance in the modern Folkwang cosmos. Even before acquiring important paintings by Auguste Renoir and Vincent van Gogh, museum founder Karl Ernst Osthaus collected arts and crafts from North Africa and West Asia. This group of works had a decisive influence on the Folkwang concept and influenced the art …