Hanne Darboven. Correspondences May 19 – August 27, 2017

Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart –

To mark the donation of 15 works and series of works from all phases of the Hanne Darboven. Correspondences oeuvre of the artist Hanne Darboven, who died in 2009, Hamburger Bahnhof 19.05 – 27.08.2017

– Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin has decided to celebrate the artist, the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für most important German conceptual artist, with an exhibition. Gegenwart – Berlin Staatliche Museen zu Berlin The exhibition Hanne Darboven. Correspondences uses the early drawings Invalidenstraße 50-51 10557 Berlin from the gift of Michael and Susanne Liebelt to show how the born (1941) and later -based artist at first sought to engage with the Opening Hours minimal art and that surrounded her during her stay in New Tue, Wed, Fri 10 am–6 pm Thu 10 am–8 pm York, later creating large, independent work blocks with her numeric Sat, Sun 11 am–6 pm constructions based on calendar dates. After her two years in New York Mon closed (1966/67), Darboven developed a system of cross sums of dates that then Press Contact formed the base of her work. This method allowed her to represent time Exhibition frames and thus an awareness of time in private, social, historical, and Dr. Katharina von Chlebowski cultural terms. In addition to the numerous individual sheets she inscribed Carlo Paulus Tel +49 (0)30 26 39 48 80 and collaged, assembling them as extensive wall installations, she also Fax +49 (0)30 26 39 48 811 repeatedly chose the medium of the book, the reception of which—reading presse@freunde-der- or leafing through the pages—also represents a temporal process. In her nationalgalerie.de wall-filling 1985 panorama “Menschen und Landschaften” (People and www.freunde-der-nationalgalerie.de

Landscapes) on view in the exhibition, Darboven explores the development Press Contact of the postcard to a mass medium and asks about the power of the images Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in the field of tension marked by “patriotism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, Generaldirektion Stauffenbergstraße 41 decadence,” one series of terms within the work. 10785 Berlin

A central part of the exhibition is correspondence with artist colleagues, Mechtild Kronenberg Press, Communication, Sponsorship friends, curators, and gallerists from the late 1960s and early 1970s, that Tel +49 (0)30 266 42 34 01 makes the emergence of this unique system of inscription accessible. Fax +49 (0)30 266 42 34 09 [email protected] The presentation of the donation of Michael and Susanne Liebelt and the www.smb.museum/presse exchange of correspondence from the holdings of the Hanne Darboven Fiona Geuss Stiftung will be complemented with works by Darboven and fellow artists Press officer Nationalgalerie such as , Bernd and Hilla Becher, Daniel Buren, Sol LeWitt, Tel +49 (0)30 39 78 34 17 Fax +49 (0)30 39 78 34 13 Panamarenko, and Lawrence Weiner from the collections of the [email protected] Nationalgalerie, the Kupferstichkabinett, and the Kunstbibliothek of the www.smb.museum/presse Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

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The exhibition is made possible by the Freunde der Nationalgalerie.