Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Landschaft mit Feldern, 1911 Photo: Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg © Karl Schmidt-Rottluff/ Bildupphovsrätt 2024

German Expressionism and Contemporary Art

Conversation

17.11 2024

Stockholm

At the beginning of the 20th century, the artist group Brücke created vibrant and expressive paintings, paving the way for German Expressionism. Listen to Iris Müller-Westermann, curator of the exhibition “German Expressionism”, in conversation with Danish painter Maria Wæhrens, about the significance of German Expressionism for contemporary artists today.

Maria Wæhrens (b. 1976) paints in an expressive and intuitive style. She graduated from the Jutland Art Academy in 1998–1998 and from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1999–2005. Wæhrens has previously exhibited at Møstings Hus, the Medical Museum, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Kunsthal NORD, the Nivågaard Collection, the Women’s Museum, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, and the Lviv National Art Gallery, Ukraine. Recently, she held a retrospective exhibition at the Vejen Art Museum in 2020/2021 and presented a site-specific mural at O – Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art, in 2021.

Wæhrens’ works are part of the collections of the Museum of Religious Art, the Danish Arts Foundation, the New Carlsberg Foundation, HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, and the National Gallery of Denmark. Her most recent solo exhibitions were at Jir Sandel and Wilson Saplana Gallery in Copenhagen, as well as Chris Sharp Gallery in Los Angeles.

Iris Müller-Westermann is the curator at Moderna Museet and the curator of “German Expressionism: The Artist Group Brücke and the Beginnings of Modernism.”

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