State of the Arts : Video ∙ Installation ∙ Performance

Curators: Johanna Adam and Miriam Barhoum
Managing Director: Patrick Schmeing

The exhibition presents one of the most intriguing artistic phenomena of our time: the fusion of the visual and the performing arts. Today, more often than not, a visit to an exhibition does not merely offer new visual impressions. Instead, it is a more comprehensive experience that involves all the senses. Artists combine video, performance, dance and language, creating intermedial works. In some cases, this results in the visitors themselves becoming part of the work, forcing them to give up the distanced position of the viewer.

The fusion of the arts that causes the boundaries between the disciplines to disappear is a phenomenon of contemporary art that emerged in the 1960s. The term intermedia was used to celebrate the diversity of artistic possibilities, and experiments combining music, theatre, visual art and literature were launched. The Fluxus movement with its happenings and use of new media was especially influential in shaping this broader concept of art. Today in 2020, the extension of artistic media into all conceivable fields has long since become widely accepted. The exhibition brings together works that playfully move between different artistic disciplines—performative sculptures, sound works and multimedia installations as well as performances.

Current exhibitions:

Beethoven
World.Citizen.Music
until April 26, 2020

We Capitalists
From Zero to Turbo
until July 12, 2020

Fragments from now
for an unfinished Future
An exhibition of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
until May 3, 2020

Soon to come:

Double Lives
Visual Artists Making Music
June 19 to October 4, 2020

Max Klinger
and Europe
September 4, 2020 to January 10, 2021

Jerusalem
November 27, 2020 to March 28, 2021

Press Officer: Sven Bergmann
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The Bundeskunsthalle is supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media