- TEHRAN (IRAN)
Exhibition: Tehran museum unveils western art masterpieces hidden for decades
The museum’s collection is reputed to be the greatest line-up of modern masterpieces outside Europe and the United States, and includes millions worth of art, much of which has been kept under wraps since the 1979 revolution. The current Minimalism And Conceptual Art exhibition features 132 works by 34 world-famous contemporary artists, museum director Ebadreza Eslami said, including Marcel Duchamp, Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd and the duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art was inaugurated in 1977 during the reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was deposed by Islamic revolutionaries two years later. Its design was inspired by Iran’s desert wind towers, an architectural element used to catch and circulate cool air in hot environments. Most of the collection was built up by the shah’s wife, former queen Farah Pahlavi, who deployed a team of experts to tour Western auctions and snap up prestigious paintings and sculptures to boost the country’s cultural profile.
- STOCKHOLM (SWEDEN-EU)
Exhibition: Anselm Kiefer – Essence-Existence
This summer, Artipelag Museum turns ten years old and in connection with that we present our biggest investment ever – the exhibition Essence-Eksistence with the German artist Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945). Kiefer is one of the foremost contemporary artists, but despite this, his work has never been shown to any great extent in Sweden. Essence-Eksistence highlights Kiefer’s rich output of paintings, sculptures and installations. The works are often a deep dive into German history and touch on the German identity from romanticism to a Germany in ruins after the defeat in World War II. As it is the first time Kiefer is shown in a major exhibition in Sweden, it has a retrospective character that highlights the artist’s multifaceted production from the 1970s onwards. We dare to call the exhibition magnificent, as it will be the biggest exhibition we have ever done. But mainly it is Kiefer’s artistry and choice of subject that are magnificent; he moves in both the present and history, for a long time he has been setting the tone on the global art scene and he moves between many different forms of expression and references.
June 4, 2022 – January 8, 2023
