Raus ins Museum! - Meisterwerke von Etel Adnan bis Andy Warhol

In the organizer's words:

New perspectives on art history: under the title "Raus ins Museum! Into your collection", the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is showing its collection at K20 from 6 July 2024 with masterpieces from Etel Adnan to Andy Warhol in an extensive new presentation. The new tour of the collection comprises 20 rooms and shows more than 180 works of art created between 1904 and 2023. Highlights include the new acquisitions that have been added to the museum since 2017 under the direction of Susanne Gaensheimer. Numerous juxtapositions of historical works and works from today invite visitors to take a fresh look at history and the present.

On display are more than 180 works of classical modern and post-war art, including groundbreaking masterpieces by artists such as Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol, as well as new acquisitions by important modern artists such as Etel Adnan, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Gabriele Münter, Alice Neel and Lygia Pape and works by non-European artists that have been acquired in recent years. With works such as these, the collection now exemplifies the history of modern abstraction and is now one of the most distinguished and polyphonic collections of modern art internationally, expanding the canon of art history to include positions by women and non-Western artists.

For the Director of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Prof. Dr. Susanne Gaensheimer, the new presentation marks a milestone for the museum: "I am delighted that we can now finally present our intensive work of recent years to visitors and send them on a journey through global art history. In this presentation of the collection, we are shedding light on a history in which important works by non-European artists will be on display alongside well-known Western artistic icons. With its presentation of the collection, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen enables us all to find ourselves in the history of modernism from different perspectives of the present and to engage with it."

Visitors can also look forward to new digital offers for the collection: a comprehensive digital guide gives them the opportunity to put together their own tour of the collection, learn more about internationally renowned artists with the help of audio talks or let Dj Wolfram (DFA Records/Public Possession/Live from Earth) take them through the collection to the soundtrack "The Sound of the Collection", which was specially produced for the K20. The new "Collection Online" will also be available from July 6. Almost 300 works can be rediscovered and explored via a digital gallery.