Sammlung2

New Splen­dor for the Kun­sthalle Ros­tock – Open­ing Exhi­bi­tion with Works by Her­mann Glöckner

The com­plete­ly redesigned exhi­bi­tion space in the base­ment will kick off with a com­pre­hen­sive exhi­bi­tion on the work of the impor­tant artist Her­mann Glöck­n­er. Born in Dres­den in 1889, Glöck­n­er devel­oped an inde­pen­dent oeu­vre that flour­ished inde­pen­dent­ly of the polit­i­cal or artis­tic move­ments of the GDR. Today, he is con­sid­ered the ​“Patri­arch of Mod­ernism” and enjoys inter­na­tion­al recog­ni­tion. Glöck­n­er died in West Berlin in 1987.

For the first time, the Kun­sthalle is show­ing the com­plete col­lec­tion of its own col­lec­tion: ten draw­ings, ten prints, two sculp­tures, a col­lage, and a paint­ing. The exhi­bi­tion is com­ple­ment­ed by high-pro­file loans from a pri­vate Dres­den collector.

In this white cube, the com­plete col­lec­tion of por­trait sculp­tures will be pre­sent­ed for the first time – delib­er­ate­ly with­out any art-his­tor­i­cal hier­ar­chy or didac­tic clas­si­fi­ca­tion. The works stand side by side on an equal foot­ing and invite one to approach them with an open mind and a com­plete­ly sub­jec­tive approach.