New perspectives on art history: under the title "Raus ins Museum! Rein in Deine Sammlung", the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is showing its collection at K20 with masterpieces from Etel Adnan to Andy Warhol in an extensive presentation.
The tour of the collection comprises 20 rooms and shows more than 180 works of art created between 1904 and 2023. Highlights include the new acquisitions that have been added to the museum since 2017 under the direction of Susanne Gaensheimer. Numerous juxtapositions of historical works and works from today invite visitors to take a fresh look at history and the present.
On display are more than 180 works of classical modernism and post-war art, including groundbreaking masterpieces by artists such as Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol, as well as new acquisitions by important modern artists such as Etel Adnan, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Gabriele Münter, Alice Neel and Lygia Pape and works by non-European artists acquired in recent years. With works such as these, the collection now exemplifies the history of modern abstraction and is now one of the most distinguished and polyphonic collections of modern art internationally, expanding the canon of art history to include positions of women and non-Western artists. (Source: Kunstsammlung NRW)
