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Ngozi-Omeje Ezema ON Boundless VasesNgozi-Omeje Ezema ON Boundless Vases
ONE ON ONE
In this episode of ONE on ONE, Nigerian artist and ceramicist Ngozi-Omeje Ezema (*1979) talks about her work ‘Boundless Vases’, which is exhibited at the Pinakothek der Moderne from 5 December 2024 to 11 May 2025.
Using transparent nylon string, hundreds of ceramic fragments are strung together at specific heights and positions to simulate vases of different shapes and sizes.
Ngozi-Omeje Ezema, who was trained at the University of Nigeria in Nsukka and where she is teaching today, represents a new generation of African artists who are transporting an ancient traditional art form into the present.
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Philipp Fürhofer ON Eccentric Design Lounge, 2024Video
Philipp Fürhofer ON Eccentric Design Lounge, 2024
ONE ON ONE
Philipp Fürhofer ist bildender Künstler und Bühnenbildner. Für die Ausstellung "ECCENTRIC. Ästhetik der Freiheit" gestaltete er gemeinsam mit Peter Buchberger die "Eccentric Design Lounge" Durchscheinende, deckenhohe Voiles, bedruckt mit assoziativen Bildcollagen, rhythmisieren den zentralen Raum der Ausstellung.Dazwischen sind Objekte internationaler Designer arrangiert. "Das einzelne Detail ist ganz normal, das kennen wir, aber die Kombinatorik des Ganzen, das ist das Neue und das Ungewöhnliche und das Unerhörte" - das ist für ein zentraler Aspekt exzentrischer Kunstwerke und auch seiner eignen Arbeit.
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Christoph Niemann ON "Where the Wild Lines Are", 2024Video
Christoph Niemann ON "Where the Wild Lines Are", 2024
ONE ON ONE
When Die Neue Sammlung commissioned Christoph Niemann to create a wall illustration for the children's book exhibition “Where the Wild Strokes Live”, the illustrator was inspired by the title of the exhibition and began to draw. The first illustration eventually became more than twenty motifs, which are spread across the walls and balustrades of the rotunda, bringing the books in the display cases to life in a unique way. From his work on the wall drawings, Niemann developed the book DRAW, which invites children and adults to get creative and draw for themselves. In this episode of ONE ON ONE, Christoph Niemann talks about his collaboration with graphic designer Ariane Spanier and how monsters can make storytelling easier in surprising ways.
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Almut Heise ON "Grosses Wohnzimmer", 1968Video
Almut Heise ON "Grosses Wohnzimmer", 1968
ONE ON ONE
In this episode of ONE ON ONE, artist Almut Heise talks about her first large-format painting ‘Großes Wohnzimmer’. The three-part painting was created in 1968 under the impression of a visit to the Cologne art market, which was dominated by works of American and English Pop Art. It shows a living room interior from the 1950s, painted in the veristic style of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The work can be seen until 5 January 2025 in the exhibition ALMUT HEISE at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München in the Pinakothek der Moderne.
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Matri-Archi(tecture) ON Homeplace. A love letter, 2023Video
Matri-Archi(tecture) ON Homeplace. A love letter, 2023
ONE ON ONE
"What does it mean to create a home afar from home?" - This question is at the centre of the installation HOMEPLACE - A LOVE LETTER by the collective Matri-Archi(tecture), on view in the Rotunda of the Pinakothek der Moderne from Dec 9, 2023 until March 24, 2024.
In our new ONE ON ONE episode, Margarida Waco, Abdé Batchati and Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk, three of the artists involved in the project, talk about their concept and the considerations that went into the work.
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Matri-Archi(tecture) project team:
Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk
Margarida Waco
Afaina de Jong
Aisha Mūgo
Abdé Batchati
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MAXIMILIAN KIRMSE ON BERLIN MON AMOUR, 2022-23Video
MAXIMILIAN KIRMSE ON BERLIN MON AMOUR, 2022-23
ONE ON ONE
Anyone applying for a new ID card in Germany still usually has to go to the citizens' registration office and spend some time there. The artist Maximilian Kirmse is interested in such places. For him, the details of their design reveal something about the experiences of the people who spend time there and their significance for society. His observations at the Bürgerbüro Spandau have resulted in a series of works entitled 'Bürgerbüro', which he talks about in our new episode of ONE ON ONE.
PAULA SCHER ON ROCKAWAY BEACH, 2012-15Video
PAULA SCHER ON ROCKAWAY BEACH, 2012-15
ONE ON ONE
Paula Scher has been shaping graphic design with her innovative creation for over five decades. In the field of signage and environmental graphics, her work has opened up a new perspective on streets and buildings as dynamic type installations. In our new ONE ON ONE episode, she talks about the reconstruction of the Rockaway Beach boardwalk in Queens, New York, after its destruction by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 - a project that fills an entire wall of her current installation TYPE IS IMAGE at the DIE NEUE SAMMLUNG - THE DESIGN MUSEUM.
LISA LUKSCH ON KREISKRANKENHAUS AGATHARIED, 1998Video
LISA LUKSCH ON KREISKRANKENHAUS AGATHARIED, 1998
ONE ON ONE
The Agatharied district Hospital designed by Nickl und Partner Architekten is one of the flagship projects of "healing architecture" in Germany. Curator Lisa Luksch visited the building several times in preparation of the exhibition BUILDING TO HEAL: NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR HOSPITALS. In our new ONE ON ONE episode, she talks about what particularly impressed her about the hospital's architecture and the influence of the hospital environment on the stress perception of seriously and chronically ill patients.
KIKI SMITH ON "EIGHT HEARTS", 2023Video
KIKI SMITH ON "EIGHT HEARTS", 2023
ONE ON ONE
ONE ON ONE. One person talks about one work that touches them. In this episode, we hear from New York artist Kiki Smith about the significance of hearts in her work and life. The glass work "Eight Hearts", 2023 was created for her exhibition KIKI SMITH. FROM MY HEART at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München in the Pinakothek der Moderne
HEDWIG EBERLE ON BLINKY PALERMO "DEAD PIG", 1965Video
HEDWIG EBERLE ON BLINKY PALERMO "DEAD PIG", 1965
ONE ON ONE
ONE ON ONE: one person talks about one work that touches them. In this episode of our new video series, artist Hedwig Eberle (*1977) tells us why the work "Dead Pig" by the painter Palermo, who died young in 1977, fascinates her so much. "Dead Pig" from 1965 is currently on display in the exhibition UNKEMPT PAINTINGS.GERMAN ART SINCE 1960 FROM THE COLLECTION OF DUKE FRANZ OF BAVARIA. Hedwig Eberle is also represented in the show with a series of five small-format paintings.
NATSUKA OKAMOTO ON REI NAITO "COLOUR BEGINNING", 2022Video
NATSUKA OKAMOTO ON REI NAITO "COLOUR BEGINNING", 2022
ONE ON ONE
ONE ON ONE: one person talks about a work that touches them. In the first episode of our new video series, we get up close and personal with Rei Naito’s subtle watercolor series „colour beginning“, currently on view in her exhibition „breath“. Natsuka Okamoto has worked with the artist, who is highly revered in Japan, for many years and travels with her to her exhibitions around the world.
KunstWerkRaumInterview
KunstWerkRaum
Yes, we’re open!
„Yes, we’re open!“ – this is very much what our intercultural workshop on art appreciation – “KunstWerkRaum”– is all about. Our programme addresses all persons interested in communicating with – and through – art in the widest sense. As such, it is designed to create a maximum pool of languages possible. And by this we do not just mean the spoken word, but language in all its imaginable forms.
Aenne BiermannInterview
Aenne Biermann
INTIMACY WITH THINGS
Today, Aenne Biermann (1898–1933) is considered one of the major proponents of ‘New Photography’. Although she was only active as a photographer for a few years and, unlike her female colleagues Florence Henri, Germaine Krull and Lucia Moholy, for example, had neither an artistic training nor moved within the avant-garde circles of major urban centres, Aenne Biermann developed her own markedly modern pictorial style that established her position as a representative of contemporary avant-garde photography within a very short time.
SGSM ONLINEInterview
SGSM ONLINE
THE STAATLICHE GRAPHISCHE SAMMLUNG MÜNCHEN GOES DIGITAL
The Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München welcomes its visitors online with immediate effect! From now on, museum visitors can use the collection's homepage to set up their own digital study room at home or on the move and take a look at the almost inexhaustible holdings of the Munich cabinet.
Kiki SmithExhibition
Kiki Smith
Prints by Kiki Smith
Die Ausstellung TOUCH. Prints by Kiki Smith ist der Dank für eine außergewöhnlich großzügige Schenkung: Die international renommierte New Yorker Künstlerin hat der Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung 196 Einzelblätter, 41 Portfolios und Serien sowie 15 Künstlerbücher zukommen lassen; aufgeschlüsselt in Einzeldruck sind es über 800 Stück. Weltweit ist somit die Staatliche Graphische Sammlung das Museum mit dem größten Bestand an druckgraphischen Werken von Kiki Smith.
Sound of DesignPresentation
Sound of Design
The sounds of design objects are often just as characteristic as their shape. Which is why from 21st February 2019 onwards visitors will be able to hear the sounds coming from a variety of exhibits in our collection through the Web-App Sound of Design.
Danner RotundeExhibition
Danner Rotunde
Der Schmuckraum der Pinakothek der Moderne
Nach der farbenfrohen Konzeption der Danner-Rotunde eines Karl Fritsch und der in zurückgenommenem Weiß gehaltenen von Otto Künzli – beides weltweit agierende Schmuckkünstler und Professoren für Goldschmiedekunst – ist es zu Beginn des zweiten Jahrzehnts des 21. Jahrhunderts an der Zeit, die Danner-Rotunde erneut einer Neu-Kuratierung zu unterziehen.
The Bauhaus and MunichExhibition
The Bauhaus and Munich
Reflex Bauhaus. 40 objects – 5 conversations
Associating the Bavarian capital of Munich with the legendary Bauhaus is probably something no one would think of, as the Bauhaus was, after all, established in 1919 around 400 kilometers away in Weimar.