For the first time, in cooperation with the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and the ZKM in Karlsruhe, BOZAR presents a survey of the artistic trends that flourished in Eastern and Western Europe after the Second World War. Despite the political tensions and the background of the Cold War, artists on both sides of the Iron Curtain experimented with similar art forms such as media art, action painting, conceptual art, and sound art.
Facing the Future: Art in Europe 1945–68 sheds light on a vibrant period in the recent history of art via 200 works by 150 artists from 18 European countries, including the former Soviet Union.
This exceptionally wide-ranging overview includes key works by, among others, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Jean Fautrier, Jean Dubuffet, Max Beckmann, Hannah Höch, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Vladimir Tatlin, Ossip Zadkine, Tadeusz Kantor, Andrzej Wróblewski, Karel Appel, Armando, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Yves Klein, Marcel Broodthaers, Victor Vasarely, Jean Tinguely, Christo, Nam June Paik, Gerhard Richter, Lucian Freud, Georg Baselitz, A.R. Penck, and Joseph Beuys.
24 June – 25 September 2016
PR: Bozar
Foto: Fernand Léger, Builders with Aloe, 1951. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. © SABAM Belgium 2016.