Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky: Dreams of the Future
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Mar 16 – Aug 11, 2024
The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf has just opened its major exhibition "Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky: Dreams of the Future".
Finally, two of the most important pioneers of Western abstraction are being juxtaposed: on the one hand, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), the Russian painter, co-founder of the "Blauer Reiter" in Munich and teacher at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau. The other is Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), the Swedish artist whose mediumistic and visionary oeuvre has only recently been rediscovered and has since inspired a wide audience.
The exhibition, organized by curators Julia Voss and Daniel Birnbaum, brings together the works of af Klint and Kandinsky for the first time in a comprehensive exhibition. It offers a unique opportunity to view and understand the paintings, watercolors, drawings, and notes. Af Klint and Kandinsky, who lived almost simultaneously, had in common that they wanted to invent much more than a new style of painting with abstraction. Both dreamed of a future in which art would lead the way.
The fact that this dream was also shared at the same time by non-trained artists who, like af Klint, attributed their work to the influence of unseen entities is made clear by the fact that the rediscovered works of the mediumistic draughtswoman Wilhelmine Assmann (1862-after 1931) are also shown in this exhibition.
Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky: Dreams of the Future
Mar 16 – Aug 11, 2024
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
Grabbeplatz 5
40213 Düsseldorf
Germany