Exhibitions

William Kentridge (born in 1955 in Johannesburg) is one of the world’s most renowned contemporary artists. He came to fame internationally at the end of the 1980s with his animated short films; in them, Kentridge both critically and very poetically explores South Africa’s past and its present. These films, which are based on large-format charcoal drawings, constitute the starting point of what has evolved into a wide-ranging …

The exhibition shows new works by young artists that are being created as part of the 15th prize round. It combines varied photographic and filmic approaches that deal with the political and social constitution of our world. In collaboration with

Starting with Otto Steinert and his Contributions to the History of Photography , artists and photographers have been questioned and interviewed about their work over the course of more than five decades. In audio recordings and contemporary documents, protagonists of photography from the 1930s, 1950s, 1970s, 1990s and 2000s enter into a dialogue with exemplary works from the collection.