Price: € 18/ Reduced: € 15
Admission tickets can be purchased at the ticket shop and at the cash desk

A special lunch: A short guided tour of the exhibition followed by a lunch menu (starter and main dish, excluding drinks) at LePopulaire.

Price: € 9 / Reduced € 6
Admission tickets can be purchased at the ticket shop and at the cash desk.

From mid-September the sculpture “Kitty Fountain” by Tom Sachs can be seen in front of the PalaisPopulaire. A one-hour tour through the neighborhood introduces the work of the American artist as well as important historical monuments around Bebelplatz.

Photo: Mathias Schormann

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On the occasion of Deutsche Bank’s exhibition “Artists of the Year 2021,” author Paula Macedo Weiß will read from her book “Es war einmal in Brasilien” (A Life in Brazil) (Dielmann Verlag, 2021) at the PalaisPopulaire. Relating personal memories, she talks about her childhood and growing up under a military dictatorship, the country’s political and social conditions, and the committed middle class’s attempt to nevertheless hold on to democratic values. The Brazilian Alexandre Maxwell, is one of the three current “Artists of the Year.” In his work, he investigates structures and living conditions in Brazil, through from a current rather than a retrospective perspective. The 30-year-old comes from Rio de Janeiro’s largest favela. His paintings, performances, and installations revolve around black identity and systemic racism, as well as music and spirituality. Marie Kaiser, an rbb literature and art expert, will moderate the reading.

This event will also take place live on YouTube. 

Photo: © Dominik Mentzos

Price: €9 / Reduced: €6
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Memories and reflections on a time when abstraction dominated not only art but also our visual lives and stood for “modernism.” A conversation between author Oliver Koerner von Gustorf and Friedhelm Hütte, the curator of the exhibition.

The event ends with a look at the present and a discussion with the audience.

Photo: © Oliver Koerner von Gustorf

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The central role that drawing played for Joseph Beuys has been emphasized often enough, including by himself. As “forms of thought” and a medium of cognition, his drawings are akin to a look into the laboratory of a researcher who uses the expressive richness of the graphic medium to elaborate and concretize ideas and motifs of his expanded concept of art. Deutsche Bank owns part of the collection of works on paper that Beuys compiled himself on the occasion of his drawing exhibition at the Galerie Schmela in 1972. Dr. Magdalena Holzhey, collection curator of the Kunstmuseen Krefeld and a renowned Beuys expert, will use this unique, self-contained ensemble to shed light on the significance of drawing for Beuys and the artist’s repertoire of forms.

You can follow this event live on the PalaisPopulaire’s website.

Photo: © Stadt Krefeld/Presse und Kommunikation/A.Bischof

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René Block opened his gallery in New York in 1974 with Beuys’ legendary performance "I like America and America likes Me". Block accompanied the artist for a total of fifteen years as a gallerist and published iconic editions such as the sled or the felt suit. At the PalaisPopulaire, under the title “From Berlin: News from the Coyote,” René Block talks about the actions he carried out in Berlin and New York together with Beuys between 1964 and 1979.

There is limited seating for the analog event.

Photo: © Romelo Pervolovici /Archiv Block Berlin

Price: € 9 / Reduced € 6
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Georg Kremer, owner of the long-established company Kremer Pigmente, talks about the topic of abstraction and color, or more generally, colors and pigments as materials as well as color production and its history. After the talk, the podium will be open for questions from the audience.

Photo: © Kremer Pigmente GmbH & Co. KG.

Photography and architecture are decisive for Erin O’Keefe's work. I am a photographer and an architect, and my work is informed by both of these disciplines, it says in her biography. The artist, who lives in New York and Canada, assembles self-made objects into installations and photographs them in such a way that the boundaries between three- and two-dimensionality become blurred. It is no longer possible for the viewer to tell what the original forms looked like, where the shadow ends and the space begins. Seeminlgy two-dimensional compositions with bright colors and backgrounds merge into one another. Compositions arise that are at a distance from real spatial situations. As a photographer, O’Keefe explores this precise transition from form in space to image.

Britta Färber, Chief Curator of the Deutsche Bank Collection, will talk with Erin O’Keefe about photography, architecture, unusual visual experiences, and much more.

This event will take place online. If you are interested, register here for the Zoom Webinar. If you do not wish to participate directly in the discussion, you can also follow the event live on our website or on Facebook live.

© Erin O’Keefe, Courtesy Seventeen

Price: € 9 / Reduced € 6
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Curator Friedhelm Hütte guides you through the exhibition Ways of Seeing Abstraction – Works from the Deutsche Bank Collection

Photo: © Mario Andreya