Collection Showcase
Museum für Neue Kunst

Women artists in being!

The subjects present themselves as artists, with a sense of pride evident in their posture as they hold their brushes in contemplation. Alternatively, they are portrayed as mature women on the threshold of their life's work. With self-portraits by Eva Eisenlohr (1891-1977), Fridel Dethleffs-Edelmann (1899-1982), Gretel Haas-Gerber (1903-), Melitta Schnarrenberger (1909-1996), Maria Lassnig (1919-2014) and Susanne Kühn (*1969), the exhibition provides insight into the artists' diverse biographies. It also examines the opportunities and challenges women have faced and continue to face in the art world.
Female artists are underrepresented in most museum collections. However, recent data suggests that around 25% of artists represented in the Museum für Neue Kunst are women.

Sculpture Rack

The Sculpture Rack presents a collection of smaller sculptures in a manner reminiscent of a depot. This form of presentation is a deliberate departure from the conventional approach of displaying each object individually on a plinth and encourages reflection on the nature of presentation and the role of the museum in facilitating such displays.

Retrospective. Paintings from the Collection

All the paintings in this room were acquired between 1923, the year the Augustinermuseum was founded, and 1935. The absence of works in the collection between these dates is indicative of a dark chapter in German cultural policy: they represent the works that were included in the collection but confiscated as 'degenerate art' by the National Socialist Reich Chamber of Culture in 1937.

Contemporary Positions

One room is dedicated to large-scale works by contemporary women artists who have been added to the collection in recent years. The presentation changes intermittently, offering new insights into current developments in art. The current exhibition features 'You Never Look At Me From The Place From Which I See You' by Anike Joyce Sadiq.