Dissonance - Platform Germany (2)

In the organizer's words:

The starting point for the exhibition Dissonance - Platform Germany (2) is a publication with the same title by DCV Verlag, which presents positions in contemporary painting. Compiled by curators Christoph Tannert and Mark Gisbourne, it provides an overview of the different artistic approaches and strategies that have emerged in Germany over the past three decades. International artists born after 1972 who live and work in Germany were selected.

Basically, it can be said that the antagonism between abstraction and figuration in painting, which has been negotiated since the post-war period, has given way to an extreme plurality of formulations and themes, at least since the upheaval of 1989 to the present day. It is not so much a typifying way of thinking that classifies the most diverse styles and schools. Rather, today's field of expanded painting is characterized by heterogeneity and the assertion of self and identity. At the same time, social reality is undergoing a variety of changes towards a culture of the post-migrant. Dissonance - Platform Germany (2) traces the moments of transition in which several seemingly incompatible cognitions begin to harmonize.

After its stop at the Stadtgalerie Kiel , the exhibition curated by Christoph Tannert (artistic director of Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin) will be shown at the National Museum Bucharest.