AGAIN AND AGAINST - From the Collection of Contemporary Art

Works from the museum’s holdings of international contemporary art are brought into oftentimes surprising and unconventional situations of dialogue: Sigmar Polke/Haegue Yang, Marwan/Georg Baselitz, Neo Rauch/Tony Cragg, Georg Baselitz/Mike Kelley, Vajiko Chachkhiani/Peter Doig among others. In the process of comparative viewing unsuspected relationships and astonishing common features come to the fore, while the distinctive character of each artistic signature remains. The collection presentation again and against permits the discovery, new discovery and rediscovery of significant works of contemporary art held in the Hamburger Kunsthalle’s collection.

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Photo: This is all that remains of the original statue (1974) von Sigmar Polke (1941–2010) and The Intermediate – Hairy All Over sowie The Intermediate – Harvest Spell (2016) von Haegue Yang (*1971), Hamburger Kunsthalle / Privatsammlung in der Hamburger Kunsthalle, © Polke: The Estate of Sigmar Polke, cologne / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018; © Yang: Courtesy of Studio Haegue Yang, Berlin, Foto: Kay Riechers