4 Museums – 1 Modernism
About the Exhibition
The upheaval that culminated in Modernism and the beginnings of Die Neue Sammlung, Germany’s first state design museum, are closely connected. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its foundation, a joint exhibition by the four museums that form the Pinakothek der Moderne will showcase a selection of highlights of Modernism from the museum collec-tions. The era will be presented from the 1910s to the 1930s, and across the different artistic and design disciplines.
In times of great political instability and rapid social and technological change, one of the most important aesthetic epochs gained sway. With its radical form of abstraction and unadorned realism, artistic and functional matter-of-factness, artisanal and exclusive design, it emphatically changed our view of humans and the world.
The exhibition ground plan resembles a figure 4 and refers to the four museums that make up Pinakothek der Moderne as well as to the four thematic areas New Aesthetics, New Materials and Techniques, New Institutions and New Society in which the exhibits of the four institutions dovetail with one another.
Additional to the exhibition further objects of Modernity have been marked in the rooms of Die Neue Sammlung and Sammlung Moderne Kunst.
Architecture design: Martin Kinzlmaier
Plan a visit
Where?
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Barer Straße 40, 80333 Munich
Opening hours:
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Daily 10:00 – 18:00
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Monday closed
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Thursday 10:00 – 20:00
FAQs
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Curated by:
Simone Förster (BStGS / Stiftung Ann und Jürgen Wilde), Michael Hering (Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München), Ludwig Kallweit (Die Neue Sammlung), Oliver Kase (BStGS / Sammlung Moderne Kunst), Irene Meissner (Architekturmuseum der TUM), Angelika Nollert (Die Neue Sammlung), Xenia Riemann-Tyroller (Die Neue Sammlung), Josef Straßer (Die Neue Sammlung)
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Sponsored by:
Bayerisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst
PIN. Freunde der Pinakothek der Moderne
Allianz