Curators Reflect on 'Postwar' Exhibition's Global Reassessment of Modern Art
The exhibition named 'Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965' was held at Munich’s Haus der Kunst from October 2016 until March 2017. Curated by Okwui Enwezor, Katy Siegel, and Ulrich Wilmes, it featured over 200 artists from more than 50 countries. It highlighted various art movements, including Socialist Realism, Neo-Concretism, and Abstract Expressionism. On March 8, 2017, Siegel gave a talk at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, emphasizing the exhibition's aim to broaden perspectives beyond American and European art. The show was organized into eight thematic sections and has become a significant resource for scholars studying postwar modern art connections.
Key facts
- Exhibition 'Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965' held at Haus der Kunst, Munich from October 2016 to March 2017
- Curated by Okwui Enwezor, Katy Siegel, and Ulrich Wilmes
- Featured over 200 artists from more than 50 countries
- Included eight thematic sections such as Nations Seeking Form and Cosmopolitan Modernisms
- Katy Siegel delivered a lecture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York on March 8, 2017
- Exhibition aimed to decenter American and European art in global postwar modernism
- Addressed movements like Socialist Realism, calligraphic abstraction, Neo-Concretism, Abstract Expressionism, and Neo-Dada
- Referenced artists including Ben Enwonwu, Andrew Wyeth, Fyodor Shurpin, and Ernst Ney
Entities
Artists
- Okwui Enwezor
- Katy Siegel
- Ulrich Wilmes
- Romy Golan
- Rattanamol Singh Johal
- Hannah Arendt
- Joseph Beuys
- Stephanie Barron
- Eckhart Gillen
- Ernst Ney
- Jackson Pollock
- Gazbia Sirry
- Inji Efflatoun
- Max Bill
- David Alfaro Siqueiros
- Nikolas Drosos
- Andrew Wyeth
- Fyodor Shurpin
- Boris Groys
- Alice Neel
- Beauford Delaney
- James Baldwin
- Wilfredo Lam
- Lydia Liu
- Mark Tobey
- Clement Greenberg
- Christian Rattemeyer
- Varujan Baghosian
- Carl Andre
- Ben Enwonwu
- Paul Klee
Institutions
- Haus der Kunst
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- Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Documenta
- São Paolo Biennale
- Venice Biennale
- Harmon Foundation
- Columbia University
- Museum of Modern Art
- MIT Press
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Locations
- Munich
- Germany
- Baltimore
- New York
- United States
- Los Angeles
- Cairo
- Egypt
- São Paolo
- Brazil
- Venice
- Italy
- Algeria
- France
- Moscow
- Russia
- China
- India
- Pakistan
- Japan
- Washington, DC
- Nigeria
Sources
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