Up in the Air

The depiction of air has been one of the artistic challenges at least since the Renaissance. As a material, however, air is a relatively recent phenomenon in art. The artists of Modernism strived for the artistic appropriation of the world as well as its dissolution and transformation. It therefore only seems logical that they regarded air not only as an idea, but also as a material.

The exhibition focuses on air as an artistic material and as a carrier of forms and ideas in the visual arts. The works on display, just like the material they all share, are sometimes expansive, sometimes minimal or even invisible, solid as well as ephemeral, they are located indoors as well as outdoors. The art works storm, whisper, blow, evaporate, breathe, and float.

More info: https://www.kunstmuseum-bonn.de/en/ausstellungen/welt-in-der-schwebe/

Picture: Lyoudmila Milanova / Steffi Lindner, The Sky Eludes All Attempts At Planning, 2017, kinetic sculpture (fog machine, fog fluid, electronics, motor, wooden base), 120 x 35 x 35 cm, Photo: © Lyoudmila Milanova / Steffi Lindner