Return to Space

The exhibition sheds light on the rediscovery of outer space in the visual arts since the late 1980s. Compared to the optimistic utopias of the 1960s, today’s artists appear to be distinctly more pragmatic and more historically reflective than their predecessors. Damien Hirst, for example, sent an artwork which doubled as a technological tool to Mars aboard the Beagle-2 space ferry. Jane and Louise Wilson’s films from the former Soviet space center at  Baikonur present surrealist images from a half-sunken world power. At the same time, each of these artworks clearly reveals the tremendous energy that this theme releases

in the artist’s and the beholder’s imagination.

Artists Oliver van den Berg, Glenn Brown, Bjørn Dahlem, Beate Engl, Sylvie Fleury, William Kentridge, Mars Patent, Steve Mc Queen, Angelika Middendorf, Aleksandra Mir, Bjørn Melhus, Marko Peljhan, Matthew Ritchie, Thomas Ruff, Michael Sailstorfer, Janek Simon, Jane & Louise Wilson, and others.

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