Thursday, 15th March, 19.00 h, Weserburg
Exhibition opening (Free admission)
Friday, 16th March - Sunday, 1st April
Federn tanzen auf den Schultern
Rebecca Horn - Films

Parallel to the Tanz Bremen festival, the Weserburg presents filmic works by Rebecca Horn. In the early 1970s, the exceptional German artist starts documenting her performances. Enigmatic props are used: masks with feathers, moveable apparatuses and artful extensions of individual body parts and limbs. With her so-called body extensions, she succeeds in exploring space and her own perception in a novel way. The poetic power and iconographic diversity of her image world are already present in her early films and performances. The body in motion is given a mysterious counterpart in the kinetic sculptures and spatial installations. The exhibition features selected films from Performances I and II (1972/1973), Berlin – Übungen in neun Stücken (1974/75), as well as the feature-length “Der Eintänzer” (1978), in which a table dances tango, for example.
 
Rebecca Horn ranks among the internationally most important contemporary artists. Since the foundation of the museum, the Weserburg has been presenting a concentrated selection of several of her installations and objects in the permanent collections. 


Visitors of the TANZ BREMEN 2012 festival are granted reduced admission upon presenting their entrance ticket.

Opening hours
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 10.00 - 18.00 h
Thursday: 10.00 - 18.00 h
Saturday, Sunday: 11.00 - 18.00 h
Monday: closed
       
Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst
Teerhof 20, 28199 Bremen
Tel. 0421 598 39 0
www.weserburg.de >

 

 

Saturday, 24th March, 18.00 h, Kunsthalle Bremen
Exhibition opening (Free admission)
Saturday, 24th March - Monday, 28th May, 2012
Tanz und Kunst
Von der klassischen Ballerina zum Lichtballett

 

     
Action, rhythm, dynamics: Starting in Paris, the excitement for dance gripped all of Europe at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. Fine artists discover dance as the epitome of modernity. And catch the fleeting muse – with quick strokes, dynamic compositions and exalted poses. Edgar Degas brings his ballerinas to the canvas – thus suggesting a sequence of motion. Auguste Rodin exaggerates a leap almost turning it into a caricature, Max Beckmann in the 1920s portrays the wild dance performances in disreputable pubs – and his critical gaze also captures the audience. In 1965 Günther Uecker vehemently sets a sculpture in rotation. Later, immaterial lights and shadows dance in Otto Piene’s ‘Lichtballet’ (Light Ballet), before video art finally distorts the recordings of real movements.


Programm:
Saturday, 24th March, 18.00 h
Exhibition opening
         
Tuesday, 27th March, 18.00 h
Guided tour with curator Katja Riemer
         
Thursday, 5th April, 13.00 h
Kunstpause with Katja Riemer on Auguste Rodin,

’Dancer H’‚ ca. 1910
         
Thursday, 19. April, 13.00 h
Kunstpause with Katja Riemer on August Macke,

’Russian Ballet I’, 1912    
 
                                  
         
You can find the updated supporting programme of the exhibition at
www.kunsthalle-bremen.de >
         
Opening hours:
Tuesday 10.00 - 21.00 h
Wednesday - Sunday 10.00 - 17.00 h
Monday closed
         
Kunsthalle Bremen
Am Wall 207
28195 Bremen
Tel. 0421 329 09 0