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Writing becomes image, and images begin to speak. The exhibition Seeing Words, Reading Images brings together works from the Written Art Collection, supplemented by selected works from the Deutsche Bank Collection, a polyphonic dialogue through international artistic positions on the diverse expressive forms of written art. The starting point is the complex and highly topical phenomenon of writing and script in art, as line, informal gesture, handwriting and calligraphy, typography, or written image.

Seeing Words, Reading Images explores both the historical roots and the international connections between writing and image in art. At the same time, the exhibition addresses the significance of written art as a medium of global communication and as a space of boundless visual and textual narrative possibilities, from poetry and political criticism to a reappraisal of history.

With works by:
Etel Adnan, Mounira Al Solh, Siah Armajani, Joseph Beuys, Osman Bozkurt, Natalie Czech, Claudia Comte, Marcel Dzama, Larissa Fassler, Meschac Gaba, Ellen Gallagher, Jenny Holzer, Rebecca Horn, Yūichi Inoue, On Kawara, Annette Kelm, William Kentridge, Imi Knoebel, Ahmed Mater, Herta Müller, Shiryū Morita, Shirin Neshat, Qiu Zhijie, Karin Sander, Viviane Sassen, Yinka Shonibare, Slavs and Tatars, Agathe Snow, Lawrence Weiner, Wong Hoy Cheong, Yang Jiechang, Charles Hossein Zenderoudi

Curated by Marie-Kathrin Krimphoff, Curator Written Art Collection, and Svenja Gräfin von Reichenbach, Director PalaisPopulaire


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