Intervention: Neusichtung - Museum Revisited; Eine Ausstellungsanalyse (Neusichtung - Museum Revisited: An Exhibition Analysis)

At the invitation of the Brücke Museum, students in the master’s program in art studies at TU Berlin explored the exhibition Whose Expression? Die Künstler der Brücke im kolonialen Kontext (Whose Expression? The Brücke Artists in the Colonial Context) . On February 11, 2022 , they will provide insights into their reflections on multiple visits and conversations with the curators and various experts in Interventionen (Interventions).

After stops at the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the exhibition Kirchner and Nolde. Expressionism Colonialism has been hosted by the Brücke-Museum since December 2021. In Berlin, it is being supplemented with works by other representatives from the Brücke group of artists. Together with contemporary positions, the Brücke Museum is also presenting the collection of non-European objects from the estate of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff at Kunsthaus Dahlem. For the first time, the exhibition project will be focusing on the interactions between German and European colonial policies and the art productedd by the Brücke members. In doing so, it is subjecting the artistic and intellectual adaptation of artifacts from the colonies of the time - landscape and scenes of figures scenes Papa New Guinea and Palau, where Nolde and Pechstein had traveled before the outbreak of World War I, and the staging of black models in the numerous Dresden and Berlin studio and dance representations - to a revision, as well as critically examining institutional practices of curating and mediating.

The seminar aimed to analyze the exhibition, not only including its structure, the arrangement of the exhibits in space, and the texts and media accompanying them but also taking into account aspects such as its online presence, catalogue, and comparisons with the previous exhibition’s stations.