Modern Times
Industrial Themes in Painting and Photography
26.6. — 26.9.2021
Modern Times
Industrial Themes in Painting and Photography
26.6. — 26.9.2021
From 26 June to 26 September 2021, the Bucerius Kunst Forum will present a large-scale exhibition devoted to the handling of industrial themes in painting and photography – an absolute first. Never before has artists’ engagement with the emergence and progress of industry and the resulting changes in the landscape and working world been examined by way of a dialogue between the two media.
Modern Times. Industrial Themes in Painting and Photography brings together about 30 paintings and some 170 photographs. Based on powerful images spanning a trajectory from the early days of industrialisation to the present day, and from Romanticism to contemporary photography, the show highlights how the artistic treatment of industrial themes has developed and changed over the past 175 years. On display are works by artists including Adolph von Menzel, Léon-Auguste Mellé, Hugo van Werden, Albert Renger-Patzsch, August Sander, Conrad Felixmüller, Oskar Nerlinger, Franz Radziwill, Walker Evans, Otto Steinert, Evelyn Richter, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Robert Voit, Thomas Struth and Inge Rambow.
Visit
Exhibition
daily 11:00 am — 7:00 pm
thursday 11:00 am — 9:00 pm
Labor Day: 11:00 am — 7:00 pm
Ascension Day: 11:00 am — 9:00 pm
Whit Monday: 11:00 am — 7:00 pm
Ticket info
Adults: 12 Euro
Reduced: 6 Euro
Tuesdays (except holidays): 6 Euro
More about the exhibition
Catalogue
Modern Times
Industrial Themes in Painting and Photography
Exhibition Catalog
| Editors | Anton Corbijn and Franz Wilhelm Kaiser |
| Texts by | Florian Ebner, Sabine Friese-Oertmann, Thilo Koenig, Kristina Lowis, Ulrich Pohlmann, Lukas Schepers and Ralf Stremmel |
| Description | 250 pages, with images of works from the exhibition |
| Publishing company | Hirmer Verlag, Munich |
| Price | in the exhibition 29,90 euro |
Audiotour
BKF Guide as an App for your smartphone
Just download the BKF Guide for free onto your smartphone to experience the exhibited works in multimedia before, during and after your visit to the show and have access to background information.
- Free BKF Guide app for your smartphone, available for iOS and Android.
- Available in German and English
- Conveniently download to your own smartphone from home or on the road
- Use your own headphones
Interview in German
In this interview, Kathrin Baumstark, curator of the exhibition, gives an overview of the show, which presents the artistic examination of 175 years of industrial history in the visual arts.