A new art for a new, improved society. That is what many artists and designers were seeking around 1900. After a century of styles that literally quoted the past, a new form language emerged, based on

Célio Braga (b. 1963, Guimarânia, Brazil) makes emotionally charged and highly layered work that stimulates our sense of touch. Themes like love, sexuality, comfort and religion meet in fragile

A.R. Penck (1939-2017) was one of the German artists who, after the Second World War, paved the way for a new artistic mindset. Today he is known above all for his Streichholzmännchen (‘matchstick men

Out of the shadow across her face, Paula Modersohn Becker regards us with a steady gaze. She painted Self-portrait with Hat and Veil in the early years of the twentieth century, after a period of

Exhibition of work by Austrian artist Siegfried Anzinger (b. 1953, Weyer). Although he is generally regarded as a member of the German Neue Wilden (Neo-Expressionists), his work is less ironic and

Long before spiritual and esoteric movements like new age and mindfulness became popular in the West, the open-minded Alexej von Jawlensky (1864-1941) combined the best of different religious

Turn of the century Vienna brought to life in a major exhibition of 20th-century avant-garde art, including work by Viennese artists Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka and their German contemporaries Dix

German artist Jochen Niessen (b. 1959) dramatically reverses the traditional process of painting: he applies the paint first and only then proceeds to the drawing. And he himself has no idea what that