Post-Postmodernism: A Map for the Present

Postmodernism is back. Three generations of artists and thinkers rally around its legacy. Why is war on postmodernism being declared from the right? Why is it being blamed for Trump from the left? Why are its forms, its styles, its thinking topical again?

The exhibition Everything at Once: Postmodernism, 1967-1992 shows the beginnings of the present in fashion, cinema, design, architecture, art, philosophy, dance, pop music, and politics. The symposium Post-Postmodernism: A Map for the Present looks at the challenges of the present through the lens of postmodernism. Creatives around the age of 40 meet their idols from the 1970s and ’80s. What does postmodernism teach us about dealing with new media and with populism? Why do the radical experiments from this era inspire a new generation? And which conclusions can be drawn from the insight that the world cannot be reduced to one single concept?

Highlights
Sylvia Lavin on helicopters
Henrike Naumann on postmodernism
Léa-Catherine Szacka on MTV
James Wines and Simon Denny in conversation
Nigel Coates, John Maybury, Sophie Parkin, and Derek Ridgers remember the Blitz Club
Neville Brody and Markus Peichl on media since the 1980s and the beginnings of Bundeskunsthalle

With: Cem A. aka freeze_magazine, Shumon Basar, Neville Brody, Nigel Coates, Simon Denny, Nikita Dhawan, Diedrich Diederichsen, Oliver Elser, Gertrud Koch, Eva Kraus, Sylvia Lavin, Reinhold Martin, John Maybury, Henrike Naumann, New Models, Sophie Parkin, Markus Peichl, Kolja Reichert, Derek Ridgers, Martin Saar, Léa-Catherine Szacka, James Wines, and many more

November 10, 2–8 pm UTC+1
November 11, 12–7 pm UTC+1

All lectures and talks will be held in English and will be translated into German simultaneously.

Admission free with registration: booking [​at​] bundeskunsthalle.de
All details and live stream: studiobonn.io

Accompanying the exhibition
Everything at Once: Postmodernity, 1967–1992
Until January 28, 2024 in Bonn
The year 1967 marked the beginning of our present: Modernism, which had presumed that everything could be sorted out through equal housing, furniture and rights for all, was abandoned, and from its ruins a bizarre, eccentric world was born. Architects declared the amusement park the new ideal city; designers shook off the yoke of good taste, and the conflict between the two dominant political systems gave way to the struggle for self-realisation. New media synchronised the globe, and images became the arena in which contests for style and recognition were waged.
Showcasing spectacular examples of design, architecture, cinema, pop, philosophy, art and literature, the exhibition chronicles the dawn of the information society, the unleashing of the financial markets, the great age of subcultures, disco, punk and techno-pop, shoulder pads and Memphis furniture.

With: Pedro Almodóvar, Archizoom, Azzedine Alaïa, Ant Farm, J. G. Ballard, Dieter Bankert, Donald Barthelme, Roland Barthes, Martine Bedin, Heinz Bienefeld, Ricardo Bofill, Neville Brody, Trisha Brown, Judith Butler, David Byrne, Cesare Casati, Citroën, Lucinda Childs, Nigel Coates, Combahee River Collective, Comme des Garçons, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Michele De Lucchi, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Devo, Peter Eisenman, Bret Easton Ellis, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Achim Felz, Paul Feyerabend, Michel Foucault, Francis Fukuyama, Jean Paul Gaultier, Frank Gehry, General Idea, Jean-Paul Goude, Michael Graves, Félix Guattari, Donna Haraway, David Harvey, Hipgnosis, David Hockney, Hans Hollein, Jenny Holzer, Haruomi Hosono, Haus-Rucker-Co, Arata Isozaki, Fredric Jameson, Charles Jencks, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Philip Johnson, Grace Jones, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Rem Koolhaas, Leonard Koren, Kraftwerk, Kengo Kuma, Karl Lagerfeld, Louise Lawler, David Lynch, Michael Mann, Martin Margiela, Javier Mariscal, Gordon Matta-Clark, Marshall McLuhan, Richard Meier, Alessandro Mendini, Memphis, Issey Miyake, Claude Montana, Charles Moore, Franco Moschino, Makoto Nakamura, Brian O’Doherty, Nam June Paik, Van Dyke Parks, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Gustav Peichl, D. A. Pennebaker, Gaetano Pesce, Renzo Piano, Walter Pichler, Emanuele Ponzio, Paolo Portoghesi, Sally Potter, Paco Rabanne, Yvonne Rainer, Godfrey Reggio, Kevin Roche, Werner Rösler, Aldo Rossi, Ed Ruscha, Edward Said, Ridley Scott, Denise Scott Brown, Cindy Sherman, Peter Shire, Borek Šípek, SITE, Thomas Gordon Smith, Ettore Sottsass, Gayatri Spivak, Linder Sterling, James Stirling, Studio 65, Sturtevant, Shin Takamatsu, Matteo Thun-Hohenstein, Stanley Tigerman, Masanori Umeda, Oswald Mathias Ungers, Roger Vadim, Robert Venturi, Gianni Versace, Madelon Vriesendorp, Andy Warhol, Vivienne Westwood, James Wines, Robert Wyatt, Kansai Yamamoto, Harumi Yamaguchi, Yellow Magic

Exhibition catalogue
Everything at Once: In a thrilling book design by Studio Yukiko, featuring over 400 images, this new 288-page standard publication re-examines the multi-faceted legacies of postmodernism in music, film, design, fashion, architecture, philosophy, online culture, politics, and the economy. The publication includes conversations with Neville Brody, AA Bronson, Kevin Driscoll, New Models, Moritz Schularick, Denise Scott Brown, Joseph Vogl, and James Wines, along with essays by Diedrich Diederichsen, Nikita Dhawan, Oliver Elser, Gertrud Koch, Eva Kraus, Sylvia Lavin, Kolja Reichert, and Léa Catherine Szacka.
Published by Hirmer, Munich.
Museum edition: 39 EUR
Order your copy: order [​at​] buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de

Director: Eva Kraus
Managing-Direktor: Oliver Hölken
Curator:  Kolja Reichert
Press officer: Sven Bergmann, kommunikation [​at​] bundeskunsthalle.de

Also on view
Federal Prize for Art Students
26th National Competition of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Until January 7, 2024

Coming soon
Immanuel Kant. Unresolved Issues
November 24, 2023–March 17, 2024

Anna Oppermann
A retrospective
December 13, 2023–April 1, 2024

For the most up to date schedule, please go to: bundeskunsthalle.de/en/events/calendar

Contact
The Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany
Museumsmeile Bonn
Helmut-Kohl-Allee 4
53113 Bonn

Information
T +49 228 9171–200 / info [​at​] bundeskunsthalle.de