nolde/kritik/documenta

Overview

Emil Nolde (1867–1956) ranks among the best-known classic modernists. Contemporary perceptions of the artist and his oeuvre are informed by mythmaking as well as its deconstruction. After the Second World War, Nolde himself and art historians of the time portrayed him as a victim of Nazi persecution. More recent critics have drawn attention to his anti-Semitic views and his opportunism in his dealings with the Nazi authorities.With support from the Nolde Foundation, Seebüll, the Düsseldorf-based conceptual artist Mischa Kuball (b. 1959) delved into the documentary record to shed light on this profoundly ambivalent figure and frame a critical perspective on Emil Nolde’s output and actions. The first fruits of his endeavors were shown at the Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen, in the winter of 2020–2021.Kuball continued his research at the invitation of the documenta archive, Kassel. Based on his findings, the exhibition project “nolde / kritik / documenta” illuminates the ways in which life and oeuvre are interwoven and inquires into the contradictions of modernism, which Emil Nolde as a man and artist may be said to have embodied. The focus of the new project is on the staging of

Author Biography

Astrid Becker is an art historian. The documenta archive preserves the documents that were created during the documenta exhibitions. In addition, it collects publications, visual and text documents related to them. William H. Sherman (born 26 January 1966) is an American-born British academic who currently serves as director of the Warburg Institute. Martin Brenninkmeijer is the Managing Director of Draiflessen Collection gGmbH. Jens Kastner is a German sociologist and art historian who is also active as a journalist and freelance writer. Emil Nolde was a German-Danish painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and was one of the first oil painting and watercolor painters of the early 20th century to explore color. Dr. Corinna Otto has been the director of the Draiflessen Collection since 2014. Barbara Segelken is an Art historian. Sabine Fastert is an Art historian. Birgitta Coers (b. 1970) is an Art historian that will head the documenta archiv from October 1, 2020. Günter Berg is a literary agent and at the beginning of his career worked for many years alongside Siegfried Unseld at the Suhrkamp publishing house. Mischa Kuball is a German conceptual artist who has been working in public and institutional spaces since 1977. Nicole Roth is a Curator. Wolfgang Ullrich (* 1967 in Munich) is a German art historian and cultural scientist.