Until October 9, a new selection of works ”dealing with individual and societal struggles to attain balance, harmony and stability” are on display in the Hamburger Bahnhof contemporary art museum in Berlin in the exhibition “Balance.”
Curator Nina Schallenberg has put together 39 pieces for the exhibition, supplementing the works in the Marx Collection with some works from the National Gallery’s holdings.
In addition to Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol, works by Georg Baselitz, Günther Förg, Andreas Gursky, Keith Haring, Donald Judd, Gülsün Karamustafa, Imi Knoebel, Jeff Koons, Inge Mahn, Ulrike Rosenbach, Salomé and Fiona Tan are now on display, ranging from minimal art to pop art and contemporary art.
Schallenberg has assigned the works to the five sections of gravity, position, weights, condition and balance.
She also gives the walk through the rooms a musical frame: At the beginning, in Rosenbach’s video “Tanz für eine Frau” (Dance for a Woman) from 1974, the whirling waltz of a dancer can be seen, who eventually loses her balance.
At the end of the exhibition, “The Revolution must be free!” by Douglas Gordon can be turned on a music box, which sounds a song of upheaval with the “Internationale.”
Directly behind it is a powerful work for a different balance: Warhol’s large-format “Mao” from 1973, one of the highlights of the collection, can be seen once again with the exhibition.
The Marx Collection is one of the pillars of the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart (Hamburg Rail Station – Museum for the Contemporary).
Since its opening in 1996, the museum has been able to rely on the permanent loans of the extensive collection of the Berlin entrepreneur Erich Marx, which is characterized by artistic personalities such as Beuys, Kiefer, Rauschenberg, Twombly and Warhol. © dpa 2022-06-08
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