STREET LIFE. The Street in Art from Kirchner to Streuli

19/11/2022 - 05/03/2023

STREET LIFE at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum takes visitors on a journey through the streets of the classical modernity until present time. As a place of representation, self-staging and communication as well as resistance or protest, the street forms a vital link of various areas of life, social groups and interests. Applied across media and eras, the exhibition displays different artistic appropriations of this dynamic place. From the expressionists ambivalent street scenes about the conquest of the street in context of Happening and graffiti to the recent developments within the framework of globalization and democracy movements. Around 120 artworks are shown including artists like Joseph Beuys, Sophie Calle, Christo, Valie Export, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Helen Levitt, Adrian Piper, Barbara Probst, Beat Streuli and Peter Weibel 

Curator: Dr. Astrid Ihle

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog (German/English) published by Hirmer Verlag.
In this richly illustrated book, the range of the highly topical theme and its implementation in paintings, graphics and photographs as well as in films, performances and installations of the 20th and 21st centuries is shown.
With contributions by E. Bohnet, A. Bossok, D. Campany, A. Ihle, S. Gronert, K. Rottmann, J. Stallabrass, M. Widrich, R. Zechlin.