Ausstellungsansichten „Zerreißprobe. Kunst zwischen Politik und Gesellschaft. Sammlung der Nationalgalerie 1945-2000“, Neue Nationalgalerie, 18.11.2023-28.9.2025 © Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker
Now on view at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin—"Extreme Tension: Art between Politics and Society, Collection of the Nationalgalerie 1945 – 2000"
Art created during the second half of the 20th century is marked by an enormous diversity of materials, mediums, and methods. At the same time, hardly another era was so characterized by division, rupture, and transformation as the period after the Second World War.
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This presentation encompasses key works from West and East Germany, Western Europe and the USA, and former Socialist countries, which come from the art informel movement and color field painting, Pop art and Minimalism, as well as conceptual art. "Extreme Tension” includes works by Alberto Giacometti, Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol, Antoni Tàpies, Francis Bacon, Hans Hartung, Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Mark Rothko, Pablo Picasso, Sigmar Polke, amongst many others.