Long Story Short An Art History from the Brandhorst Collection from the 1960s to the Present
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“Long Story Short” tells a story of contemporary art from the 1960s to the present from the holdings of the Brandhorst Collection. Each room is an exhibition in its own right: from Arte Povera to monographic presentations, from formal-aesthetic discourses to socio-political topics. Works that have never been shown before and new acquisitions enter into a dialog with the museum's icons and open up new perspectives on the collection, which now comprises over 2000 works.
Exhibition info
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Lower level
Dr. Monika Bayer-Wermuth with Lena Tilk
About the exhibition
Since its opening, the museum’s holdings have grown from 800 to over 2,000 works of art, weaving together multiple strands from contemporary and recent art. These works provide both focused and wide-ranging insights into artistic production over the past seventy years, especially in Europe and the United States. Rather than attempting to present a purportedly complete history of this period, the exhibition “Long Story Short” strings together selected movements, aesthetic concerns, and artistic positions from the 1960s to today, creating a sequence of individual art histories.
Long Story Short
For the first time since its opening in 2009, Museum Brandhorst is devoting itself with “Long Story Short” to a chronological presentation of its collection. This show brings together nearly eighty works by more than thirty artists from the Brandhorst Collection, making tangible the diverse forms of expression and aesthetic strategies of art as part of a larger historical fabric. It demonstrates that art does not exist in isolation but is always in exchange with its time—with political, social, and technological developments—reflecting them in a free and manifold way and thus forming an essential part of our society.
With works by
Kerstin Brätsch, Victor Burgin, André Cadere, DAS INSTITUT (Kerstin Brätsch und Adele Röder), Walter De Maria, Wade Guyton, Georg Herold, Charline von Heyl, Jacqueline Humphries, KAYA (Kerstin Brätsch und Debo Eilers), Jannis Kounellis, Michael Krebber, Louise Lawler, Mark Leckey, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Albert Oehlen, Kayode Ojo, Laura Owens, Palermo, Giulio Paolini, Sondra Perry, Sigmar Polke, Seth Price, Amy Sillman, Frank Stella, Martine Syms, Niele Toroni, Rosemarie Trockel, Richard Tuttle, Cy Twombly, Franz West
Galleries curated by
Dr. Monika Bayer-Wermuth, Chief Curator, Museum Brandhorst; Franziska Linhardt, Curator, Museum Brandhorst; Benedikt Seerieder, Curator, Museum Brandhorst; Lena Tilk, Research Associate, Museum Brandhorst; and Sabine Weingartner, Guest Curator; with the assistance of Dr. Katharina Fischer, Team Assistant, Museum Brandhorst.
Sound of the exhibition
Accompanying the exhibition Long Story Short, Julia Weigl and Christoph Gröner from Munich International Film Festival have curated a playlist. It takes visitors on a musical journey through seven decades of film history — from American Graffiti (1973) and Dazed and Confused (1993) to Lost in Translation (2003), Drive (2011), Barbie (2023), and many more.
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