Exhibition Overview

Current Activities

12 September to 28 February 2010
(closed from 24 Dec to 1 January)

Drawing Sculpture
Drawing, sculpture, video from the Daimler Art Collection

A selection of works on paper, complemented by sculpture, videos and picture objects

Sat, 7 November 4 p.m.

From the line to sculpture: the artist's working process
- Monika Brandmeier, Christo, Auke de Vries, Ulrike Flaig, Claude Horstmann -
This tour offers an opportunity to follow the stages of the artist's working process from sketch to realization, to observe common features and differences.

Sat, 7 November 5 p.m.

Sculptures on the Potsdamer Platz, part II
- Auke de Vries, Jean Tinguely, Fran?ois Morellet, Marc di Suvero

Thu, 19 November, 7 p.m.

A contemporary sculptor in dialogue with artistic colleagues from bygone centuries
Two directors of collections - Julien Chapuis from the Bode-Museum and Renate Wiehager from the Daimler Art Collection - talk about their different remits. The temporary shared factor for the two collections is a dialogue initiated by a Dutch sculptor between his own sculptures and the works of three artists from five different centuries, presented in two special exhibitions in the Bode-Museum and the Daimler Contemporary at Potsdamer Platz. For his artistic exchange in the Bode-Museum, Auke de Vries chose the sculpture "Saint Michael Vanquishing Satan" by Ignaz Günther. In this talk, he will explain why this figure in particular interests him, and what links it with his own work.

Sat, 5. December 4 p.m.

Disegno, relief, picture-sculpture: positions between picture and three dimensions
- Marcia Hafif, Georg Herold, Robert Longo, Silke Radenhausen, Eva-Maria Reiner -
Artistic strategies, this tour focuses on analysing, bridging and shaping the state of tension between two and three dimensions.

Sat, 5 December 5 p.m.

Sculptures on the Potsdamer Platz, part I
- Robert Rauschenberg, Keith Haring, Jeff Koons, Nam June Paik -

Mon, 7 December, 7 p.m.

Drawing as a process
In the 20th century, the processual factor in the conceiving of a drawing or sculpture and in its perception by the viewer has undergone a fundamental change. In their work, the two artists comprehensively examine the interrelations of time, place, experience and reflection, developing new forms fort their sculptural and graphic work to achieve this. In conversation with Renate Wiehager, they provide insights into their genre-spanning work and into where they get their ideas from.

Sat, 9 January, 4 p.m.

Drawing - sculpture - video: work on the contemporary media concept
- Andy Warhol, Marcus Huemer, Katja Davar, Gia Edzgeveradze, Georg Winter -
This tour offers insights into how technological development such as video, for example, have helped the classical media of drawing and sculpture to be used in new ways.

Sat, 9 January, 5 p.m.

Sculptures on the Potsdamer Platz, part II
- Auke de Vries, Jean Tinguely, Fran?ois Morellet, Marc di Suvero

Sat, 6 February, 4 p.m.

Minimal material: contemporary positions for minimalist sculpture
- Leonor Antunes, Hartmut Böhm, Rupert Norfolk, Jan Scharrelmann, Lasse Schmidt Hansen -
This tour presents young artists from the collection who addresses a whole variety of sculptural materials within the tradition of a minimalist aesthetic.

Sat, 6 February, 5 p.m.

Sculptures on the Potsdamer Platz, part I
- Robert Rauschenberg, Keith Haring, Jeff Koons, Nam June Paik -

Wed, 10 February, 7 p.m.

The eight large sculptures in the Potsdamer Platz
Unlike the previous artists' talks, this talk begins with an evening tour of the Potsdamer Platz. We will be looking at all eight large sculptures in the Daimler Art Collection together with Renate Wiehager, seeing outdoor works by Keith Haring, Jeff Koons, Auke de Vries, Mark di Suvero and Robert Rauschenberg and indoor works by Jean Tinguely, Fran?oise Morellet and Nam June Paik. Finally, we will visit the exhibition space, where the architect Roger Baumgarten, who supervised the building of the Potsdamer Platz under Renzo Piano, will tell us about the integration of the sculptures into the city. All the different aspects of how the sculptures' locations were chosen, the technical challenges involved and the pieces' artistic significance will be presented in detail.

on request

Guided Tour
"Art and Architecture
on Potsdamer Platz"

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