Why should public museums collect art? Certainly - to enable as many people as possible to participate in aesthetic experiences and cultural education. But all art collections in museums are also repositories of memory for the social community - they are the collective memory of our society.
Works of art can offer views of our world or provide insights into our society. Sometimes they simply provide a commentary, or they show us a whole new world. We invite you to explore our reality anew in real time with this exhibition.
Significant civic commitment
What luck! Free admission pays off! Thanks to unique and special circumstances and the support of many art-loving people, a unique exhibition is being created. An anonymous patron bequeathed us the right to acquire works of art for the Städtische Galerie collection. She and her sister always came to our exhibitions in the gallery on Fridays from 12 noon for free admission. Thanks to her legacy, a unique exhibition can now be realised.
»Enthusiastic and attentive as well as unbureaucratic and generous – there has never been such devotion and such trust! And something like this will probably never happen again!«
With a comfortable budget, works of art were acquired for the municipal collection from predominantly contemporary artists, which can now be seen in a large exhibition. The focus is particularly on painting, which is strongly anchored in the Dresden art scene and often reveals references to the high painterly quality of the Dresden School. The show will be complemented by sculptures and conceptual works, which round off this flash of insight into the current art scene.
More than 40 works of art are presented in ‘Echtzeit’. There is no theme that would have limited the selection in terms of content and historical canons do not play a role either. The result is a celebration of diversity! The exhibition presents a wealth of artistic styles and aesthetic strategies. It invites visitors to engage in a visual exchange that stimulates reflection and discussion in a variety of ways.
Our present, the people of our time and art itself
Represented in the exhibition are:
Lothar Beck | Lutz Bleidorn | Roland Boden | Andreas Bräunsdorf | U.S. Buchart | Annedore Dietze | Susan Donath | Maja Drachsel | Franz Ehrenberg | Rao Fu | Hermann Glöckner | Victoria Graf | Angela Hampel | Eberard Havekost | Wiebke Herrmann | Frank Hoffmann | Beate Hornig | Matthias Jackisch | Kerstin Junker | Eric Keller | Matthias Kistmacher | Claudia Kleiner | Franziska Klotz | Thoralf Knobloch | Wolfgang Kühne | Wilhelm Lachnit | Stefan Lenke | Danny Linwerk | Frank Lippold| Stephanie Lüning | Christian Manss | Thomas Matauschek | Ulrike Mundt | Anne Neukamp | Wieland Payer | Tanja Pohl | Mona Pourbrahim | Paul Pretzer | Erika Richter | Grit Richter | Theresa Rothe | Heidrun Rueda | Sophia Schama | Liza Sivakova | Katrin Süss | Denise Walther| Nadine Wölk | Hamidreza Yaraghchi
We are delighted to invite you to the opening of our new exhibition. Join us on 25 October at 19:00 to explore an inspiring collection of contemporary art.
During the event, you will have the opportunity to meet the curator and many of the featured artists.