MGK Museum für Gegenwartskunst

New Discoveries

Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection and Contemporary Art Collection in the MGKSiegen

17 Feb 2023 - 01 Apr 2024

New-Discoveries, Exhibition view, MGKSiegen, Work by Anna Boghiguian, Egos and mirrors, 2021, Contemporary Collection, Courtesy the artist,

Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer. Acquired with funding from the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and with funds from the Friends of MGKSiegen
New-Discoveries, Exhibition view, MGKSiegen, Work by Miriam Cahn, gefühl beim schlafen, 18.2.2022, The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection, Courtesy the artist, Work by Antoni Tàpies, Cos, 1987, The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, Work by Miriam Cahn, das schöne blau, 2019 + 27.7.2020, The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection, Courtesy the artist, Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer
New-Discoveries, exhibition view, MGKSiegen, Works by Cy Twombly, The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection, © Cy Twombly Foundation, New York, Works by Niele Toroni, The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer
New-Discoveries, exhibition view, MGKSiegen, Works by Miriam Cahn, das schöne blau, 2019 + 27.7.2020, überdachte fluchtwege, 14.3.2005, hier wohne ich, 15.12.2018, The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection, Courtesy the artist, Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer
New-Discoveries, Exhibition view, MGKSiegen, Work by Maria Lassnig, Die Inspiration, 2012, Contemporary Collection, © Maria Lassnig Foundation/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, Work by Lena Henke, My Trust, 2019, Contemporary Collection, Courtesy the artist, Work by Maria Lassnig, Ritter mit Krücken, 2005, The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection, © Maria Lassnig Foundation/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer
Miriam Cahn, das schöne blau, 2021 + 10.1.2022, Courtesy the artist, Meyer Riegger, Berlin/Karlsruhe and Jocelyn Wolff Gallery, Paris, Photo: Heinz Pelz
New-Discoveries, Exhibition view, MGKSiegen, Work by Miriam Cahn, gefühl beim schlafen, 18.2.2022, The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection, Courtesy the artist, Work by Antoni Tàpies, Cos, 1987, The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer
With works by:
Francis Bacon, Anna Boghiguian, Miriam Cahn, Vajiko Chachkhiani, Lucian Freud, Rupprecht Geiger, Hans Hartung, Lena Henke, Maria Lassnig, Giorgio Morandi, Sigmar Polke, Bridget Riley, Emil Schumacher, Antoni Tàpies, Niele Toroni, Cy Twombly und Fritz Winter.

Curated by Prof. Dr. Christian Spies and Ines Rüttinger

When the unfamiliar is added, it becomes possible to experience the familiar in a new way - this is the intention of the MGKSiegen’s annually changing exhibitions of the collection.

This year's presentation focuses on a twofold discovery. On the one hand, new works by Francis Bacon, Anna Boghiguian, Miriam Cahn and Hans Hartung will be on show for the first time; on the other hand, it will be possible to rediscover familiar positions. The exhibition is being organised in individual rooms for the respective artists. In this way, it aims to trace artistic developments and make it possible to experience the different phases, changes and breaks that occur. Like the staging of a play, a collection can be performed and discovered over and over again.