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Finissage of the exhibition, August 29, 2024 from 11am to 6pm.
The impetus for the conversation is the group exhibition ‘Living on my own’ on current painting positions with Zohar Fraiman, Aneta Kajzer, Fritz Poppenberg and Marta Vovk (all ‘based in Berlin’). Rasmus Kleine talks about Aneta Kajzer, who was awarded the Kallmann Prize in 2022 and showed her exhibition ‘Fließende Wesen’ from 5 November 2022-29 January 2023 at the Kallmann Museum Ismaning, about the impact of the Kallmann Prize on art and the new perspectives he is planning for his museum.

Photo: Thomas Kalak

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Michael Brehm is one of the most active minds on the German start-up scene in the field of artificial intelligence. On the occasion of Art Düsseldorf on 12 April 2024, he discussed the topic "Culture, AI, Future." with Priska Pasquer (Priska Pasquer Gallery) and Walter Gehlen (Art Düsseldorf), moderated by Eric Wolzenburg (Allianz). He is co-founder and partner at the venture capital firm Redstone.VC.

The starting point for the discussion is the group exhibition "Living on my own" on current painting positions with Zohar Fraiman, Aneta Kajzer, Fritz Poppenberg and Marta Vovk (all "based in Berlin"), which addresses the perception of our identity, which is constantly being challenged by new types of media and artificial intelligence. The discussion with Michael Brehm revolves around the question "AI & Quantum: Will humans be replaced by machines on the road to immortality?" in the context of the themes of the paintings.

Marco Schuler in conversation with Annette Vogel. Annette Vogel heads the Museum Penzberg-Sammlung Campendonk and is curator of the ADAC's (Munich) corporate collection. She has accompanied Marco Schuler's work for 20 years.

Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy is handing over the management of the Franz Marc Museum in Kochel in May after 15 years. The art historian is planning a personal exhibition entitled "Mit anderen Augen" (24 March to 30 June 2024) for her farewell and has invited three other curator friends: the artist Karin Kneffel, the literary scholar, gender and fashion researcher Barbara Vinken and the art historian Julia Voss. Klingsöhr-Leroy is designing a chapter on the spirituality of plants.

In her solo exhibition A calculus of the nervous system, Amélie Esterházy (born 1982, lives in Berlin) presents a series of new works that explore the connection between art and science.

Monopol Watchlist had already become aware of Amélie Esterházy's first solo exhibition in 2010 entitled "Default Values" at Galerie Wendt + Friedmann in Berlin: "...What are "default values"? Simply "default values"? The title of Amélie Grözinger's (now Esterházy) first solo exhibition also implies that there is a norm, a series in which mistakes are the exception. Such peculiarities and contradictions appeal to the artist..."

Press roundtable on the role of cultural journalism

Under the title Bloß keine Kritik! (Don't criticise!), I will be talking to Susanne Hermanski and Katja Kraft about the loss of importance of the arts in difficult times and the complex role of cultural journalism in the struggle for the survival of cultural offerings as we know them. Both renowned and experienced journalists have experienced how cultural journalism in print, radio, TV and the programme departments of the major public broadcasters is increasingly being manoeuvred to the sidelines, and not just since the pandemic and the comparison of culture with "brothels and zoos". This is a trend that I already experienced as a ZDF cultural journalist in the capital city studio in Berlin in the 1990s. What does culture itself have to do to remain relevant and generate an audience?

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Moritz Schularick has been the new President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy since June 2023. Schularick, born in 1975, previously conducted research at New York University, the University of Cambridge, the Free University of Berlin and in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, among others.

Dieter Blum in conversation with Dr. Renate Wiehager and Christian Gögger (curators and authors, Munich) and Dietlinde Behncke. Christian Gögger and Renate Wiehager have accompanied Dieter Blum's photographic work since 2010 with important exhibitions and publications. Renate Wiehager headed the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection from 2001 to March 2023 and in 2016 exhibited Dieter Blum's photographs under the title "Cowboys. The first shooting 1992" at Mercedes-Benz Contemporary in Berlin. This involved a purchase for the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection and a catalog.

Photo: Daniel Kraus

Not yet titled, 2023 Inkjet print mounted on Dibond, in artist’s frame  118,5 x 82 cm (framed: 85 x 120 x 3 cm)  Edition of 3 + 2 AP\

Florian Auer [Ray::reTrace]  08.09.2023 bis 28.10.2023  

Both galleries on Ludwigstr. - ludwig space ■ behncke gallery and Knust Kunz Gallery - will be open.

Stefan Britz has been Global Head of Business Transformation at Allianz SE since November 2022. After 16 years of various professional positions at Allianz SE such as Head of Holding Operations (EVP) or CFO at Allianz Technology SE, transformation is not a buzzword for him, but a lived reality. What does this reality look like? What challenges are we facing?

Jan Fischer talks about the Light Art Space Berlin (founded by him in 2019).

Photo ©Julia Milberger

I am speaking with US Consul General Timothy Liston on the most pressing challenges of our time and on US cultural diplomacy for Bavaria/Munich.

The reason for the conversation is the opening of the exhibition "resetNOW! 6th Biennale of Female Artists in the Haus der Kunst Munich" on August 6, 2023 and the support - in particular Kelly Heaton's stay in Munich - by the US Consulate General. US artist Kelly Heaton will be in attendance.

Photo ©US Consulate General Munich

Lukas Liese in conversation about his - currently exhibited works - "Cousin Maria" from 2020, "Options" from 2021 and "Heat" from 2022. "Stone is my preferred material in my artistic work, because its presence in space, its geological properties and its art-historical and cultural-historical significance mean that it has the potential to build up an interaction between content and material in my work. ...

Photo ©Nicolas Böttger

Dietlinde Behncke talks with Rüdiger Schöttle about his long gallery career, the discovery of once "young" artists and their development into internationally leading art positions, as well as his captivatingly unwavering eye, and with Christiane Pfau, a observer since the 1990s.

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Photo courtesy of ©Bayerische Staatsoper

The art of the JUNGEN BERLINER SALONS invites to question realities and to reflect from different angles. Appropriately for SEMELE, who builds her own parallel world, loses herself in it and fails on the way back to reality.

Under the motto "Why should we look at the old pictures? What convey, how tell?" I will have a conversation with Bernhard Maaz about the connection of the pictorial themes to the “issues of our time” and his two-volume work entitled “The paintings of the Munich Pinakotheken”.

Dr. Klingsöhr-Leroy, director Franz Marc Museum Kochel, showed last year in the Franz Marc Museum (May 29 to October 3, 2022) under the title “Karin Kneffel. In the picture” more than thirty paintings by Karin Kneffel in the context of classical modern works, ...

Under the motto "Culture for everyone", we are using the example of the "Flower Power" mega-festival, which is currently bundling hundreds of events in Munich on the subject of "nature and art" and making culture easily accessible, about the further opening of cultural offerings for all and of course very specifically about the big cultural flagship, the Gasteig, its renovation, internationalization and future.

The focus of the exhibition tour is the examination of the individual works by Elisa Breyer and Janka Zöller.

Anna Kleeblatt (culture manager for the Flower Power Festival and member of the board of the Friends of the National Theater e.V. and the VDMK e.V.) and Markus Michalke (entrepreneur and chairman of the Pinakothek der Moderne foundation) are spokespersons for the "Initiative Kulturzukunft Bayern", ...

Grab a sandwich and meet the painters, Elisa Breyer and Janka Zöller.

Barbara Karuth-Zelle was born and grew up in Munich. She spent large parts of her childhood and youth at a farm in Austria where she learned...

The focus of the conversation with gallerist Behncke is the examination of the individual works by Judith Fegerl, ...

Bernhard Maaz wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (August 1, 2022) under the title "A key work" about Michael Krüger's book...

Discussion with the founders of collectors agenda about the artist Judith Fegerl, the relation between "visual arts and opera" and the mission of "Collectors Agenda".
Florian Langhammer ⎪ Editor-in-Chief and
Michael Wuerges ⎪ Strategic communication and press, Bavarian State Opera Munich

Gallery owner Dietlinde Behncke and art historian Mia Lasks guide through the current exhibition LIVE WIRE.
LIVE WIRE presents a fascinating selection of expansive sculptures, ...

After work talk about the ludwig space, the interior design and the program for 2023.

Grab a sandwich and talk to Viennese artist Judith Fegerl about her artwork on the red hot topic energy.