The conversation is held in English.
Ticket to the talk includes admission to the exhibitions.
The exhibition catalogue Feet First will be on sale at the event.
The Sky Room has limited capacity, so please arrive early to secure a seat. Remember to set aside time to move up to the 12th floor and to put away bags, umbrellas and liquids in the lockable wardrobe in the lobby.
With outset in the exhibition Georg Baselitz - Feet First, Professor Christian Weikop talks with curator Jon-Ove Steihaug about Baselitz's art and his extensive dialogue with other artworks and art history.
A central theme of this exhibition is Baselitz’s lifelong fascination with the art of Edvard Munch. In a number of images, Baselitz makes various references to Munch’s work, and credits him as a key influence in the development of modern German art. Despite the heaviness of his subject matter, Baselitz approaches Munch and other works from art history with a playful spirit.
Baselitz’s subjects include the human figure in many different forms, haunting landscapes from his childhood, fragments of national symbolism, and in more recent years, his own ageing process. In 1969 he began painting subjects upside down as a way of emphasising the abstract, purely painterly qualities in his figurative images.
Featuring over 80 paintings, drawings and sculptures, ranging from the early 1960s to recent works, Feet First is the most extensive exhibition of Baselitz’s work ever mounted in Norway.
Christian Weikop is Professor of Modern German and Contemporary Art at Edinburgh College of Art. He has written the article “Georg Baselitz: Dialogues with Dresden” for MUNCH’s exhibition catalogue Feet First.
Jon-Ove Steihaug is Senior Curator at MUNCH and has curated the Baselitz exhibition and written the article “‘Stars in the Window’ – Baselitz and Munch through Six Decades” for the catalogue.
Georg Baselitz was born in 1938 in Hitler’s Germany, which was already on the path to the Second World War that left Europe in ruins. The experience of being born into a ‘destroyed order’ has remained a central theme of Baselitz’s art, from the beginning of his career in the early 1960s onwards. With the growing international interest in German art in the 1980s, Baselitz became one of the biggest names on the global contemporary art scene. He is known for the artistic power of his images, as well as his provocative statements on art, gender and politics.
Georg Baselitz
Elskende par / The Loving Couple
1984
Olje på lerret
250,5 × 330 cm
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
Foto: Poul Buchard / Brøndum & Co.
