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NEVIN ALADAĞ – INTERLOCKING

Exhibition from March 10 until June 30, 2024

Nevin Aladağ (*1972 in Van, Turkey, lives and works in Berlin) is one of the most internationally renowned contemporary artists. The survey exhibition Interlocking with textile collages, sound sculptures, installations and videos draws connections between different patterns of artistic creation and their socio-cultural backgrounds. The creative forging of such connections is an important aspect of Nevin Aladağ's extensive oeuvre. In the Social Fabric series, for example, various textiles are woven into a "utopian carpet" that visually brings together the origins of the material from different cultures. The Carpet Ball Game installation is an interactive invitation to play indoor basketball in the centre of the exhibition hall. In addition, a new group of works and site-specific installations with the Best Friends flags can be seen outside the museum.

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Lots of colourful patterns in the shape of a cloud

Press Image 1 Nevin Aladağ, Pattern Kinship Cloud, luminous, 2023, water jet cut aluminium, hand-painted with acrylic paint, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, photo credit: Ana Aguilera
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Four women, wearing shoes with heels, stepping onto blocks with copper plates.

Press Image 2 Nevin Aladağ, Raise The Roof (Venice), videostill, 2017, video, 8:24 min, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, photo credit: Raphael Beinder
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Press Image 3 Nevin Aladağ, crochet ball, red, 2023, sitting ball, colored cord rope (crocheted), © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, photo credit: Daniela Kohl
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Four organic shapes decorated with different carpets

Press Image 4 Nevin Aladağ, Social Fabric, Floating Leaves, 2023, Ensemble of four organic forms, carpet pieces on wood, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, photo credit: Nevin Aladağ
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A basketball covered with colourful carpet fragments.

Press Image 5 Nevin Aladağ, carpet ball #52, 2023, carpet fragments on basketball, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, photo credit: Ana Aguilera
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An object made of round and angular elements of wood and metal with bells.

Press Image 6 Nevin Aladağ, Resonator Percussion, 2019, stainless steel, plywood, leather, bronze, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, photo credit: Trevor Good
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An exhibition view with various works by Nevin Aladağ.

Press Image 7 Installation view Nevin Aladağ – Interlocking with Social Fabric, Floating Leaves (2023), Crochet Balls (2023) and Stilettos (2017), © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, photo: Henning Krause
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Press Image 8 Installation view Nevin Aladağ – Interlocking with Color Floating objects (2024) and Macramé, current flow 2 (2017), © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, photo: Henning Krause
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Press Image 9 Installation view Nevin Aladağ – Interlocking with Pattern Kinship, Cloud, luminous and radiance (2023) as well as Crochet Balls (2023), © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, photo: Henning Krause
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You can see the artist and one of her artworks made from various nylon trousers.

Press Image 10 Portrait Nevin Aladağ with Color Floating object, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, photo: Daniela Kohl
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NANDO NKRUMAH – HEUTE SCHON MORGEN (TODAY IS ALREADY TOMORROW)

Exhibition from June 21 until November 3, 2024

The exhibition Today is already tomorrow in the Leonora Carrington Hall of the Max Ernst Museum Brühl of the LVR presents works of the German-Ghanaian artist Nando Nkrumah. With the New Perspectives format, contemporary artists explore new perspectives on Surrealism in the context of the collection.

Nando Nkrumah (*1979 in Kumasi, Ghana, lives and works in Cologne) invites visitors to wander between pasts, presents and futures and counters the current, dystopian forecasts of the future of the world with positive utopias. He combines personal memories, dreams and hopes as well as visions of the future of Afrofuturism with surrealistic elements. The artist directs our gaze to the fact that tomorrow already begins in our powers of imagination and emphasises the speculative spaces for possibility arising from this.

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The bust of a man can be seen in front of a surreal landscape.

Press image 1 Nando Nkrumah, No Frontiers, 2016, 3D-Grafik-Collage, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
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Press image 2 Installation view Nando Nkrumah – Today is already tomorrow. New Perspectives in the Leonora Carrington Hall © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, photo: Jürgen Vogel for the Max Ernst Museum Brühl of the LVR
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Press image 3 Installation view Nando Nkrumah – Today is already tomorrow. New Perspectives in the Leonora Carrington Hall © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, photo: Jürgen Vogel for the Max Ernst Museum Brühl of the LVR
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A blindfolded statue with a sword and a pair of scales in its hands

Press image 4 Nando Nkrumah, Trayvon, 2012, oil on canvas © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
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Press image 5 Nando Nkrumah, Father, 2020, oil on canvas © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
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Press image 6 Nando Nkrumah, Zena, 2016, chalk and pastel on paper © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
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Portrait of the artist in the exhibition

Press image 7 Nando Nkrumah in the exhibition Today is already tomorrow. New Perspectives in the Leonora Carrington Hall © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, photo: Jürgen Vogel for the Max Ernst Museum Brühl of the LVR
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A portrait of the artist in the exhibition

Press image 8 Nando Nkrumah in the exhibition Today is already tomorrow. New Perspectives in the Leonora Carrington Hall © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, photo: Jürgen Vogel for the Max Ernst Museum Brühl of the LVR
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ALBERTO GIACOMETTI – UNVEILED SURREALISM

at the Max Ernst Museum Brühl of the LVR,

1 September 2024 to 15 January 2025

The Max Ernst Museum Brühl of the LVR is dedicating a major exhibition to Swiss sculptor, painter, and draughtsman Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966). Organized in collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti in Paris and on the occasion of Surrealism’s centennial, the exhibition offers a unique perspective on Giacometti’s work, explored here through the lens of Surrealism and for the first time, highlights the artist’s friendship and creative ties with Max Ernst. The exhibition comprises over 70 works by Giacometti, including sculptures, drawings, paintings, and prints. It also displays works by Ernst, as well as photographs and archives that underscore the ties between the two artists.

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For the use of a Giacometti press image in Germany, the copyright notice is © Succession Alberto Giacometti / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024. For uses in France, the copyright notice is © Succession Alberto Giacometti / Adagp, Paris 2024.

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You can see a sculpture of a head with a long pointed nose.

Press image 1 Alberto Giacometti, Le Nez (The Nose), 1949, Fondation Giacometti © Succession Alberto Giacometti / Adagp, Paris 2024
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Press image 2 Alberto Giacometti, Femme couchée qui rêve (Reclining Woman Who Dreams), 1929, Fondation Giacometti © Succession Alberto Giacometti / Adagp, Paris 2024
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A black and white portrait of Alerto Giacometti

COLLECTION

The Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR is the only museum dedicated to the life and work of the seminal artist, image poet, and cosmopolitan Max Ernst (1891–1976). The collection spans 70 years of one of the most important, versatile, and fascinating artists of the 20th century. Numerous paintings, drawings, frottages, and collages let visitors immerse themselves in the fantastic worlds of Max Ernst’s images and demonstrate his boundless inventiveness. Visitors can also look forward to seeing a unique collection of more than 70 bronze castings and sculptures. Another heart piece of the collection are the 36 "D-paintings".These works were originally painted as gifts to the artist’s fourth wife, Dorothea Tanning – a fellow artist who was a part of his life for more than three decades.

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Outside view Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Photo: Annette Hiller / LVR-ZMB
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Outside view Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Photo: Hans-Theo Gerhards / Museum
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Outside view Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Photo: Hans-Theo Gerhards / Museum
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