The mad square exhibition, organised by the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia) with loans from museums and private collections from around the world, opens in Sydney and tours to the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne in November.
This is the first exhibition in Australia to look in-depth at the turbulent time of the Weimar Republic when, following the catastrophe of World War I and in a period of intense crisis, Germany entered an extraordinary era of creative and artistic fervour. During this moment in history, avant-garde movements - Expressionism, Dada, Constructivism, Bauhaus and New Objectivity - blossomed.
Berlin, 100 years ago, is the starting point for the exhibition. Through over 200 works by leading artists of the period, including Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Hannah Höch, Karl Hubbuch, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz, László Moholy-Nagy, August Sander, Christian Schad, Rudolf Schlichter and Kurt Schwitters.
The title of the exhibition - The mad square - is drawn from Felix Nussbaum's painting depicting Berlin's famous city square Pariser Platz as a crazy and fantastic place.
Date: until November 9.
Place: Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery Rd, The Domain Sydney, Australia.
Hours: from Monday to Sunday from 10am to 5pm. Wednesday from 10am to 9pm.
CAC de Málaga hosts the largest exhibition of Vik Muniz' work ever held in Europe
through December 2
Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880-1910
from July 14 to October 14.
