Death and the Devil
The Fascination with Horror
14 September 2023 – 21 January 2024
Date
14 September 2023 – 21 January 2024
Location
» KunstpalastAdmission: 13 € / concessions 10 €
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free
The exhibition Death and the Devil explores the artistic fascination with the gruesome. The first of its kind, the show illuminates the legacy and continuation of horror’s tropes in fashion, music, film as well as contemporary art. The 120 works on display range from classical painting and sculpture to elaborate installations.
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The presentation begins with a prologue that illustrates how the history of art and culture has been marked by death and macabre images.
This spans from the fantastical demons of the Renaissance admonishing sinful behaviour, to the landscapes of Romanticism steeped in ruin and shadows, to the suspenseful figures lurking in early 20th-century horror films. As part of a “cannibalistic” genre that continually re-enacts its own symbols, characters, and themes, these historical examples serve to contextualize contemporary interpretations of the gruesome and terrifying.
In the main body of the show, the exhibition brings together works from the last two decades. The diverse adaptations of horror’s tropes attest to its importance in fashion, music, film, and art.
Presented are works by artists as diverse as Rei Kawakubo, the Chapman Brothers, Billie Eilish, Lars von Trier, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Mary Sibande, Stefan Vogel and many others. Death metal and the blood-filled sneakers of MSCHF meet contributions from Andres Serrano and Eliza Douglas. With their approaches to generating fear, disgust or discomfort, these works formulate a canonized rule-breaking that transgresses societal barriers, gets under the skin and fires the imagination.
With a total of three stations, the exhibition will be on view in large parts of Germany. The show will start at the Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf (September 2023 – January 2024), continue at the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt (1 March 2024 – 2 June 2024) and end at the Museum Georg Schäfer in Schweinfurt (14 July – 20 October 2024).
Curator: Westrey Page, Kunstpalast
The exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive catalogue and a comprehensive program of events that will make the fascination of the subject tangible outside the museum.
The exhibition is suitable for children from 12 years of age.
Exhibition View
Exhibition View “Death and the Devil”, Photo: Anne Orthen
Exhibition View “Death and the Devil”, Photo: Anne Orthen
Exhibition View “Death and the Devil”, Photo: Anne Orthen
Exhibition View “Death and the Devil”, Photo: Anne Orthen
Exhibition View “Death and the Devil”, Photo: Anne Orthen
Programme
MEY & EDLICH CAPSULE COLLECTION ON THE EXHIBITION
The “Death and the Devil” collection by Mey & Edlich, which was especially created for the exhibition, is characterised by deep dark tones and comprises 13 pieces in total. It is a fusion between the familiar and the novel, giving rise to unprecedented nuances in between. Some of the designs make reference to selected exhibits – such as the hoodie with a print of the white death mask of a 19th-century girl, “Resusci Anne”, which is used today as a model for reanimation dolls. Also, there is a buttoned shirt with two sides. On the back it bears Dürer’s copper engraving dating from the 16th century: Knight, Death and Devil. It is the first time in German-speaking culture that fashion explores the subject of death in some depth.
The collection will soon be offered for purchase on the Mey & Edlich website. A number of pieces are also available on-site in our museum shop during the exhibition period.
Past Events
Performance With Eliza douglas
Thursday, 14.9.2023, 8:30 PM
Ehrenhof
American artist Eliza Douglas will be presenting her first large-scale performance at the Kunstpalast on September 14th. Entitled EVERYTHING DIES, the work draws conceptually upon tropes of the horror and gothic genres as well as dark subcultures. Through minimalist, gestural movements and carefully-staged environments, Douglas examines both the subversive potential and simultaneous commodification of these elements. Having been a long-standing collaborator in Anne Imhof’s durational installations, Douglas’ work for Death and the Devil is conceived and directed by her own hand.
The performance will begin at 8:30 pm and is estimated to finish around 10 pm.
Free entry
MEY & EDLICH PRESENTS LORDI
Kunstpalast Open Air
Saturday, 23 November 2023, 8 pm
On 23 September 2023, Mey & Edlich invites the Finnish hard rock and heavy metal band Lordi on stage outside the Kunstpalast.
With “Hard Rock Hallelujah” the group was the first metal band to win the Eurovision Song Contest – an event that kicked off their international career. Now the band’s monsters, zombies and trolls will deliver a performance for you that will rock the Kunstpalast.
The 666 free tickets have already been snapped up – sorry!
Tickets are available for purchase here.
100 free tickets have been reserved for the Friends of the Kunstpalast.
MEY & EDLICH GHOST TRAIN AT EHRENHOF
This free ride into the unknown will spare your pocket but not your nerves:
From 13 to 17 September 2023, Mey & Edlich will treat you to a ride on the “Death and the Devil” ghost train outside the Kunstpalast, featuring classic eery characters as well as motifs from the exhibition. Get on board and get spooky!
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Cornelius Völker
31 August 2023 – 7 January 2024
Date
31 August 2023 – 7 January 2024
Location
» KunstpalastAdmission: 16 € / concessions 12 €
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free
Whether lighter, leaf or lips, or heroin, heart or hands – as diverse as the motifs in Cornelius Völker’s (*1965) oeuvre are: the artist’s spirited and vividly coloured style of painting, often exploring familiar and everyday subjects shown in a new light, has always been characteristic of his work. Time and again, also objects generally deemed hardly worthy of painting find their way into Völker’s art.
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In this first institutional retrospective staged in his home city of Düsseldorf, the Kunstpalast is showing 85 oil paintings and 50 works on paper from all phases of the artist’s caree
Nine exhibition chapters guide viewers through Völker’s oeuvre.
Cornelius Völker (*1965) studied at the Academy of Art Düsseldorf from 1989 to 1995. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.
In 2005 he was appointed Professor of Painting at the Academy of Art Münster.
Völker has developed a powerful style of figurative painting in which realism and a complex handling of colour combine to form a distinctive pictorial language. His paintings make familiar objects appear in a new light, bringing surprising facets to the fore with outstanding precision and inventiveness.
The project is a collaboration between the Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, and Museum MORE in Gorssel.
Curators: Maite van Dijk, Museum MORE and Kay Heymer, Kunstpalast
Exhibition View
Exhibition View “Cornelius Völker”, Photo: Anne Orthen
Exhibition View “Cornelius Völker”, Photo: Anne Orthen
Exhibition View “Cornelius Völker”, Photo: Anne Orthen
Exhibition View “Cornelius Völker”, Photo: Anne Orthen
Exhibition View “Cornelius Völker”, Photo: Anne Orthen
Exhibition View “Cornelius Völker”, Photo: Anne Orthen
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DIE GROSSE
Kunstausstellung NRW 2023
3 June – 9 July 2023
Date
3 June – 9 July 2023
Location
» KunstpalastAdmission: 10 € / concessions 7 €
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free
Once again, the largest and longest-standing art exhibition in Germany organised by artists will be taking place this summer.
By organising DIE GROSSE, the association “Verein zur Veranstaltung von Kunstausstellungen e.V.” has provided a unique platform of exchange between artists and art enthusiasts since 1902.
Each year, participating artists are selected by a different jury. All works can be purchased directly on the premises. The exhibition presented at the Kunstpalast, NRW-Forum and Ehrenhof includes works from the fields of painting, photography, graphic art, sculpture, installation and video art.
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Die Kleine 2023
29 Apr – 21 May 2023
Date
29 Apr – 21 May 2023
Location
» NRW-ForumAdmission: free / concessions free
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free
DIE KLEINE is the closing exhibition of the art competition for Düsseldorf primary schools, which is hosted by the Kunstpalast for the fourth time.
From January to April 2023, each participating class jointly creates a work of art. This year’s theme is “From A-Z and 1-10: The colourful world of letters and numbers”. All collective works submitted are presented at this exhibition staged at the NRW-Forum, with visitors being invited to vote for their favourite project. The class which receives the most votes will be awarded an attractive visitors’ prize. In addition, the Kunstpalast offers the art prize “Kunstpreis DIE KLEINE” awarded by a jury.
DIE KLEINE is arranged under the auspices of the Mayor of Düsseldorf, Dr. Stephan Keller.
Curator: Friederike van Delden, Kunstpalast
Free admission
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Langsberg-Prize
3 Mar – 10 Apr 2023
Date
3 Mar – 10 Apr 2023
Location
» NRW-ForumAdmission: free / concessions free
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free
Alex Grein (*1983), winner of the Landsberg Prize 2022, explores the question of how images can persist in the digital age. In doing so, the Düsseldorf-based artist examines different categories of images and establishes a link between the virtual and the material.
The award, which was initiated jointly by the Düsseldorf entrepreneur Georg Landsberg and the Kunstpalast, is aimed at artists who graduated from the Academy of Art Düsseldorf several years ago.
Curator: Sarah Jonas, Kunstpalast
Exhibition venue: NRW-Forum
Free admission
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Landsberg-Prize 2019
Sabrina Fritsch
2 June – 14 June 2020
Date
2 June – 14 June 2020
Location
» KunstpalastAdmission: 9€ / concessions 7€
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free
The prize is aimed at graduates from the Academy of Art Düsseldorf, who left the academy a number of years ago. Sabrina Fritsch will be showing a selection of her latest paintings. The artist works with a form of abstract painting that picks up on and consolidates different traditional strands of 20th-century avantgarde art, moving them forward to new solutions. Fritsch expands the field of painting and demonstrates that through the art of formal reduction and concentration, crucial innovations may arise.
Curator: Kay Heymer
Die Kleine 2020
Art competition for Düsseldorf Primary Schools
14 June – 28 June 2020
Date
14 June – 28 June 2020
Location
» KunstpalastAdmission: 9€ / concessions 7€
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free
Exhibition
“Die KLEINE” is the closing exhibition of the art competition for Düsseldorf primary schools, which this year is staged by the Kunstpalast for the first time. Each participating class has jointly created a work of art on the theme “my hometown Düsseldorf”.
In the process, the children thought about ways in which they wish to present their city or their favourite spot.
All visitors are invited to vote on their favourite work shown in the exhibition and to nominate it for the visitors’ prize. The winning class will be announced at the end of the exhibition and receive a fantastic prize!
Sponsored by:
Stadtwerke Düsseldorf
NRW.Bank
VirTUAL TOUR THROUGH THE EXHIBITION
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Die Kleine – Photos to download
Japanische Internationale Schule Klasse 2A
Matthias Claudius Grundschule Tiere in tropischen Flüssen Klasse 3A, 3B, 3C und 3D
Max Schule Klasse 2
Montessori Grundschule Lindenstrasse Biberklasse (1.-4. Klasse)
Paul-Klee-Grundschule Klasse 4A (2)
Perspectives
The new Photography Collection
19 Feb – 13 Sept 2020
Date
19 Feb – 13 Sept 2020
Location
» KunstpalastAdmission: 9€ / concessions 7€
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free
Exhibition
For the first time an art exhibition in Düsseldorf dedicated to photography sets out to unravel all of the medium’s many facets.
This is made possible by the Kunstpalast’s recent acquisition of more than 3,000 photographs. In the presentation of the new collection, avant-garde icons ranging from Man Ray through to Bernd and Hilla Becher are complemented by surprising, lesser known positions, while series of works are juxtaposed with individual pictures.
The exhibition comprising around 150 works presents a panorama ranging from the earliest techniques to the snapshot, elucidating a wealth of application contexts spanning the areas of press, publicity, science, through to fashion. The exhibition offers different thematic points of access to photography and illuminates the medium’s rich diversity.
Curator: Linda Conze
Sponsored by:
Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung
Stiftung Van Meeteren Düsseldorf
WDR3
Catalogue
A catalogue comprising 192 pages is published by DistanzVerlag, with 200 illustrations, a foreword by Felix Krämer and texts by Linda Conze, Janos Frecot, Vera Knippschild and Thomas Weski. (German / English)
Museum edition: 29,80 €
Retail edition: 36,00 €
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Angelika Kauffmann
Artist, Superwoman, Influencer
30 Jan – 20 Sept 2020
Date
30 Jan – 20 Sept 2020
Location
» KunstpalastAdmission: 9€ / concessions 7€
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free
Exhibition
A significant number of the approximately 100 paintings, drawings and sculptures will be presented to the public for the first time. The presentation, which also includes prints and arts and crafts objects based on motifs used by Kauffmann, brings back to life a time when the word went around that “the whole world is Angelica-mad”.
Angelika Kauffmann, according to J. G. Herder the “possibly most cultivated woman in Europe”, was a liberal-minded neoclassical artist highly acclaimed throughout Europe. Admired for her artistic talents, her broad education and impeccable character, Kauffmann enjoyed a career that, for female artists at the time, was unprecedented. She made a name for herself with her remarkable early works, received artistic training in Italy and came to fame and fortune in London as a history painter and portraitist. Later, the astute and well networked businesswoman opened one of the most sought-after studios in Rome.
The exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Curator: Dr. Bettina Baumgärtel
Sponsored by:
Kunststiftung NRW
Rudolf-August Oetker-Stiftung
Ernst Von Siemens Kunststiftung
Schweizer Kulturstiftung Prohelvetia
Schweizerisches Generalkonsulat in Frankfurt am Main
Deutsch-Schweizerische Wirtschaftsvereinigung zu Düsseldorf e.V.
WDR3
Catalogue
Hirmer Verlag published a 208-page catalogue with approx. 180 illustrations, a foreword by Felix Krämer and contributions by Bettina Baumgärtel, Inken M. Holubec, Johannes Myssok and Helen Valentine.
Museum edition: 39,80 €
Bookstore edition: 45,00 €
The catalogue is available in German and English.
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Peter Lindbergh
Untold Stories
5 Feb – 27 Sept 2020
Date
5 Feb – 27 Sept 2020
Location
»Admission: 9€ / concessions 7€
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free
Exhibition
Born in 1944 and raised in Duisburg, the German photographer spent two years working on an uncompromising collection of 140 photographs that will shed an unusual light on his colossal oeuvre, spanning from the early 1980’s to the present day.
The exhibition offers an extensive, first-hand look at images that are usually short-lived, being mostly commissioned by monthly fashion magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Interview, Rolling Stone or W Magazine. Lindbergh’s comprehension of fashion photography is that it can – and should – exist very well without putting fashion in the center. His images transcend their own context, becoming part of contemporary culture and photographic history. Untold Stories celebrates the legacy of Peter Lindbergh, who passed away in September 2019, while showcasing this master’s highly personal approach to fashion photography.
An exhibition of the Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, in cooperation with the Peter Lindbergh Studio and with further venues at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt and MADRE in Naples.
Principal Sponsor:
Porsche
Luma Foundation
Dior
Pinsent Masons
Education Partner:
Sipgate
Süddeutsche Zeitung
WDR3
Next to Peter Lindbergh – Fotografen im Gespräch
Next to Peter Lindbergh – Fotografen im Gespräch
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Exhibition Trailer
Catalogue
A catalogue comprising 320 pages is published by Taschen Verlag, with an interview between Felix Krämer and Peter Lindbergh and a text by Wim Wenders.
Retail and museum edition: 60 €
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Hotel Package
Düsseldorf Tourismus GmbH offers a hotel package for the exhibition
“Peter Lindbergh: Untold Stories”.
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Porsche-Project
On the occasion of the “70 years of Porsche sports cars” anniversary, a joint project between Porsche and Peter Lindbergh was created in 2018. At a beach in northern France, an iconic black-and-white picture series was created in 2018 with a historic 911 and the concept study “Mission E” – the model for the all-electric Porsche Taycan.
Even after this cooperation, the contact between Peter Lindbergh and Porsche was maintained; a special partnership has developed. Porsche Deutschland is the main sponsor of the exhibition “Untold Stories” by Peter Lindbergh and pays special tribute to this legacy. The pictures of the Lindbergh shooting will be exhibited together with behind-the-scenes pictures at Porsche on Sylt (Keitumer Landstraße 14, 25980 Sylt | Tinnum) from 22.6. – 1.10.2020.
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