The National Museum of Art of Romania in partnership with the "Friends of The National Museum of Art of Romania" Association presents between November 10, 2024 and February 23, 2025 the exhibition Dissonance - Platform Germany #3

curator: Christoph Tannert

MNAR coordinator: Miruna Moraru

Vernissage: Saturday, November 9, 2024, 6 p.m., National Gallery ground floor

Made with the support of Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, the exhibition Dissonance – Platform Germany #3 brings together 75 contemporary artworks in various techniques by 43 international artists born after 1972 who live and work in Germany. The starting point was the publication Dissonance – Platform Germany, authors Christoph Tannert and Mark Gisbourne (DVC, Berlin, 2022), which provides an overview of the various artistic approaches and strategies, mainly pictorial, that have appeared in Germany in the last three decades. Researching the German contemporary art scene, the two authors of the study discovered an extreme plurality of formulations and themes in the field of painting, characterized today by heterogeneity and the affirmation of self and identity, by the development of a complex pictorial discourse in which the figurative, abstractionism, popular culture, social media, photography and techniques that come from advertising coexist.

The exhibition includes works by artists: Aline Alagem / Emmanuel Bornstein / Söntke Campen / Nicolae Comănescu / Ivana de Vivanco / Annedore Dietze / Zohar Fraiman / Rao Fu / Falk Gernegroß / Oska Gutheil / Simone Haack / Roey Victoria Heifetz / Julius Hofmann / Franziska Holstein / Sebastian Hosu / Małgosia Jankowska / Hortensia Mi Kafchin / Aneta Kajzer / Kanta Kimura / Pia Krajewski / Clemens Krauss / Tegene Kunbi / Jeewi Lee / Inna Levinson / Katsuhiko Matsubara / Monika Michalko / Kazuki Nakahara / Irina Ojovan / Justine Otto / Grit Richter / Tanja Rochelmeyer / Dennis Rudolph / René Schoemakers / Sebastian Schrader / Gustav Sonntag / Aiko Tezuka / Ulrike Theusner / Christian Thoelke / Clemens Tremmel / Angelika J. Trojnarski / Ruprecht von Kaufmann / Paul Wesenberg / Sahar Zukerman.

Christoph Tannert, curator and author of international prestige, lives and works in Berlin. From 2000 to 2024 he was the director of the cultural center Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin.

Organized in 2022 at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin and then toured, at the beginning of this year, at the Stadtgalerie Kiel, the exhibition is now presented in an expanded form at the The National Museum of Art of Romania.    

Dissonance – Platform Germany #3 is part of the 2024 program dedicated mainly to the presentation of significant exhibitions for international art such as "Victor Brauner, between dreamlike and the occult", "A century of Bessarabian painting", "Depictions - Danielle van Zadelhoff", "Ileana Sonnabend & Arte povera", "Tadeusz Kantor, artist anywhere and anytime", developed with important partners such as the Center Pompidou Paris, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Saint-Etienne Métropole, the National Art Museum of Moldova in Chisinau, the Italian Embassy in Bucharest, the Italian Institute of Culture in Bucharest, the Sonnabend Collection Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (MOCAK), the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the Tadeusz Kantor Art Documentation Center (Cricoteka), the Polish Institute in Bucharest.