The exhibition will open on 22 February 2025 at 6 p.m. and will run from 23 February to 7 September 2025.
The exhibition 'WE. The body as a sign' at the Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr places the image of man, his corporeality and his body at the centre of attention. Both the individual body and the body as a political moment bear cultural and social signs and traces. At the same time, the exhibition also explores what connects us as human beings - the ‘WE’ that seems to be disappearing more and more. The visual examination of the human body is therefore always also a reflection on being human as such.
The exhibition 'WE. The Body as sign' presents more than 70 artists with over 90 works of art from the 1920s to the present day. Based on the collection of the Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, the artistic representation of the body and thus also the image of the human being in dialogue with contemporary positions constitutes the central theme of the exhibition.
The exhibition is sponsored by the Kunststiftung NRW and the Stiftung Kunst, Kultur und Soziales der Sparda-Bank West. ‘WE’ takes place in media co-operation with Kunstforum International.
participating artists:
Jagoda Bednarsky, Rebekka Benzenberg, Alexandra Bircken, Gregory Bojorquez, Victor Bonato, Monica Bonvicini, Andrea Bowers, Georges Braque, Gernot Bubenik, Louisa Clement, Cameron Clayborn, Achim Duchow, Anna Ehrenstein, Bea Emsbach, Keltie Ferris, Magdalena Frauenberg, Katharina Fritsch, Isabella Fürnkäs, Robert Gober, Dorothee Golz, Melissa Gordon, Vivian Greven, Uwe Henneken, Erika Hock, Cathrin Hoffmann, Nadira Husain, Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Käthe Kollwitz, Konrad Klapheck, Barbara Kruger, Vera Lossau, Maren Maurer, Kresiah Mukwazhi, Loredana Nemes, Katja Novitskova, Ilse Otten, Arnulf Rainer, Ralf Raßloff, Anys Reimann, Julian Reiser, Christian Rohlfs, Thomas Ruff, Silke Schatz, Grete Schick, Oskar Schlemmer, Thomas Schütte, Ruben Benjamin Smulczynski, Annegret Soltau, Lucia Sotnikova, Ferdinand Spindel, Pia Stadtbäumer, Monika Stricker, Iiu Susiraja, Sophia Süßmilch, Emma Talbot, Christian Theiss, Cony Theis, Rosemarie Trockel, Anna Uddenberg, Aria Watson, Ambera Wellmann, Manabu Yamanaka
