Vorsicht Kunst! Das politische Plakat von Klaus Staeck im Graphik-Kabinett

In the organizer's words:

Almost 40 years after the exhibition "The Exotic Poster" in 1987, we are once again showing an excerpt from our extensive poster collection with the political posters by Klaus Staeck.

Since the 1970s, the graphic artist, lawyer and activist Klaus Staeck has been exploring themes such as the environment, consumption, war, migration, exploitation, identity and social imbalance in his collages. The provocative text-image combinations of his posters use irony and exaggeration to appeal to the public's critical awareness in order to draw attention to grievances in our Western society.

The "Vorsicht Kunst!" exhibition in the Graphik-Kabinett shows a selection of these from the 1970s to 1990s and examines their topicality against the backdrop of today's social discourse. For the first time, the exhibition focuses on the posters, in which Staeck reinterprets classics of art history from Dürer to Manet and reassesses the function, impact and social role of art by transferring it to the mass medium of offset printing. Since the late 1960s, Klaus Staeck has campaigned for freedom and the democratization of art in various actions together with other artists, including Joseph Beuys, under the credo "Art does not take place in the hall".

Exhibition opening: 19.7. 2024

Price information:

Ticket incl. collection Regular € 7 Reduced € 5 Free admission on Wednesdays