Press Release May 18, 2017 On the occasion of the donation of 15 important works and work Hanne Darboven. Correspondences complexes by Hanne Darboven to the Nationalgalerie through Susanne 19.05 – 27.08.2017 and Michael Liebelt, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Berlin dedicates an exhibition to this important representative of Gegenwart – Berlin Conceptual Art in Germany. The Nationalgalerie now possesses works Staatliche Museen zu Berlin from every creative period of the artist, who died in 2009. Invalidenstraße 50-51 10557 Berlin The exhibition ‘Hanne Darboven. Correspondences’ shows drawings, www.hannedarboveninberlin.de numerical constructions, and serial images derived from her engagement with Minimal and Conceptual Art. These works are combined with mailings Opening Hours from 1967 to 1975, which reveal the establishment and maintenance of a Tue, Wed, Fri 10 am–6 pm Thu 10 am–8 pm dense network of fellow artists, curators and friends. Prior to her death, the Sat, Sun 11 am–6 pm artist chose approximately 1,150 letters, postcards, sketches, plans and Mon closed photographs from this time period for the general public with the title ‘Correspondence’. This collection, held by the Hanne Darboven Stiftung, Admission 8 Euro, reduced 4 Euro provides new insights into the artist’s work process as well as the art system House ticket incl. temporary around 1970. In the wake of the publication of the letter exchanges of the exhibitions: ‘Correspondence’ in 2016 in a facsimile edition made possible by the Liebelt 14 Euro, reduced 7 Euro Stiftung Hamburg, now this material will be exhibited for the first time. Free admission for children and young people up to the age of 18 And so a figure comes to the fore, which has until now been overshadowed Press Contact by her identity as an artist, collector and composer: Hanne Darboven the Exhibition correspondent and her unbridled passion for writing. The exhibition presents Dr. Katharina von Chlebowski Carlo Paulus a selection of letters received by Hanne Darboven and those penned by her Tel +49 (0)30 26 39 48 80 to long-standing friends. For hundreds of mailings were exchanged Fax +49 (0)30 26 39 48 811 particularly between her and Carl Andre, Roy Colmer, Isi Fiszman, Sol presse@freunde-der- LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner and members of her family. And in addition, there nationalgalerie.de www.freunde-der-nationalgalerie.de are messages to and from colleagues (Daniel Buren, Gilbert & George, Reiner Ruthenbeck or Ruth Vollmer), collectors (Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, Press Contact Karl Ströher, Mia and Martin Visser), curators (Johannes Cladders, Douglas Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Crimp, Kasper König, Lucy Lippard), art dealers (Leo Castelli, Konrad Generaldirektion Stauffenbergstraße 41 Fischer or Adriaan Van Ravesteijn of Art & Project). For the first time, the 10785 Berlin exhibition takes these postal exchanges as an opportunity to also enquire into artistic correspondencies with these writing partners. Accordingly, Mechtild Kronenberg Darboven’s works from the collections of the Nationalgalerie, the Press, Communication, Sponsorship Tel +49 (0)30 266 42 34 01 Kupferstichkabinett and the Kunstbibliothek of the Staatliche Museen zu Fax +49 (0)30 266 42 34 09 Berlin are complemented by the presentation of works by artist colleagues [email protected] with whom she was in close contact, such as Carl Andre, Bernd and Hilla www.smb.museum/presse Becher, Daniel Buren, Jan Dibbets, Sol LeWitt and Lawrence Weiner. Fiona Geuss Press officer Nationalgalerie In addition to documenting the artist’s pivotal process, ‘Hanne Darboven. Tel +49 (0)30 39 78 34 17 Correspondences’ records the development and differentiation of art at the Fax +49 (0)30 39 78 34 13 end of the 1960s. The presented letters describe, for example, Conceptual [email protected] www.smb.museum/presse Art and the processes of dematerialization, performative writing practices, the polyphony of authorial voice, the production of identity through memory, The exhibition is made possible by the and a totalization of work in times of postmaterial structures. Yet, they also Freunde der Nationalgalerie. recount a passion for writing and the onset of the globalization of art – subjects that remain relevant to art and society today. These topics of Hanne Darboven. Correspondences Korrespondenz have been distributed across eight thematic rooms. Here, 19.05 – 27.08.2017 visitors encounter works from Hanne Darboven and her writing partners; Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für moving at will between various sections and levels, the viewers Gegenwart – Berlin subsequently explore the entanglements and overlaps of correspondences, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin creative writing, and individual works on the wall or the floor. Invalidenstraße 50-51 10557 Berlin Curated by Gabriele Knapstein, Petra Lange-Berndt and Dietmar Rübel. www.hannedarboveninberlin.de For more information and press photographs to download, see the press Opening Hours area at our website, www.hannedarboveninberlin.de Tue, Wed, Fri 10 am–6 pm Thu 10 am–8 pm Sat, Sun 11 am–6 pm The exhibition is made possible by the Freunde der Nationalgalerie. Mon closed Admission 8 Euro, reduced 4 Euro House ticket incl. temporary exhibitions: 14 Euro, reduced 7 Euro Free admission for children and young people up to the age of 18 Press Contact Exhibition Dr. Katharina von Chlebowski Carlo Paulus Tel +49 (0)30 26 39 48 80 Fax +49 (0)30 26 39 48 811 presse@freunde-der- nationalgalerie.de www.freunde-der-nationalgalerie.de Press Contact Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Generaldirektion Stauffenbergstraße 41 10785 Berlin Mechtild Kronenberg Press, Communication, Sponsorship Tel +49 (0)30 266 42 34 01 Fax +49 (0)30 266 42 34 09 [email protected] www.smb.museum/presse Fiona Geuss Press officer Nationalgalerie Tel +49 (0)30 39 78 34 17 Fax +49 (0)30 39 78 34 13 [email protected] www.smb.museum/presse The exhibition is made possible by the Freunde der Nationalgalerie. .