Preview Flowers Forever Flowers in Art and Culture February 3–August 27, 2023 With their splendor and diversity flowers have always captivated us. They possess great symbolic power – whether in mythology, religion, art or politics. In earlier centuries, flowers were coveted status symbols, today they are traded globally as a mass product. Currently, the flower is coming into focus as a fragile yet indispensable component of our global eco-system. With objects from art, design, fashion and natural science, Flowers Forever offers a fascinating, elaborately staged tour through the cultural history of flowers from antiquity to the present day. The exhibition forms part of the city-wide Flower Power Festival Munich 2023. Miguel Chevalier, Extra-Natural (Installation view), 2021, Musée de Gajac, Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France, Software Cyrille Henry & Antoine Villeret, © Miguel Chevalier, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Rebecca Louise Law, Community (Installation view), 2018, Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, USA, © Rebecca Louise Law Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Venus Verticordia, 1864–1868, oil on canvas, 81,3 x 68 cm, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum Jan Brueghel t. Y., Satire of Tulipomania, 1640, oil on panel, 31 x 49 cm, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, purchased with the support of the Rembrandt Society, photo: Tom Haartsen Abraham Mignon, Vase of Flower, ca. 1665, oil on canvas, 87,7 x 68,3 cm, collection Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, photo: Studio Tromp Hannah Höch, Holland, 1942, oil on canvas, 65,5 x 71,2 cm, on Loan from the Federal Republic of Germany – Contemporary Art Collection, photo: Jürgen Seidel, © Hannah Höch, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Kristian Zahrtmann, Adam in Paradise, 1914, oil on canvas, 125 x 106 cm, Private collection, photo: Den Hirschsprungske Samling Sir Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris, The Pilgrim in the Garden or The Heart of the Rose, design before 1896, production 1901, wool, cotton warp, silk, 155 x 201 cm, Badisches Landesmuseum, Photo: Thomas Goldschmidt Ru Xiao Fan, Ode to meditation, Jingdezhen (Jiangxi province), 2012, celadon porcelain, 35 x 38 x 38 cm, loan of the artist, © Ru Xiao Fan, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Unknown (Egypt), Stele of Nena (detail), c. 1300 B.C., limestone, 77 x 51 x 9 cm, Staatliches Museum, Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich, ÄS 51, Photo: Roy Hessing Miguel Chevalier, Extra-Natural (Installation view), 2021, Musée de Gajac, Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France, Software Cyrille Henry & Antoine Villeret, © Miguel Chevalier, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Rebecca Louise Law, Community (Installation view), 2018, Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, USA, © Rebecca Louise Law Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Venus Verticordia, 1864–1868, oil on canvas, 81,3 x 68 cm, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum Jan Brueghel t. Y., Satire of Tulipomania, 1640, oil on panel, 31 x 49 cm, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, purchased with the support of the Rembrandt Society, photo: Tom Haartsen Abraham Mignon, Vase of Flower, ca. 1665, oil on canvas, 87,7 x 68,3 cm, collection Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, photo: Studio Tromp Hannah Höch, Holland, 1942, oil on canvas, 65,5 x 71,2 cm, on Loan from the Federal Republic of Germany – Contemporary Art Collection, photo: Jürgen Seidel, © Hannah Höch, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Kristian Zahrtmann, Adam in Paradise, 1914, oil on canvas, 125 x 106 cm, Private collection, photo: Den Hirschsprungske Samling Sir Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris, The Pilgrim in the Garden or The Heart of the Rose, design before 1896, production 1901, wool, cotton warp, silk, 155 x 201 cm, Badisches Landesmuseum, Photo: Thomas Goldschmidt Ru Xiao Fan, Ode to meditation, Jingdezhen (Jiangxi province), 2012, celadon porcelain, 35 x 38 x 38 cm, loan of the artist, © Ru Xiao Fan, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Unknown (Egypt), Stele of Nena (detail), c. 1300 B.C., limestone, 77 x 51 x 9 cm, Staatliches Museum, Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich, ÄS 51, Photo: Roy Hessing The Myth of Spain Ignácio Zuloaga (1870–1945) September 15, 2023–February 4, 2024 More than almost any other artist, Ignacio Zuloaga single-handedly shaped the way Spain was viewed by the world at the dawn of the twentieth century: During his lifetime, he achieved international fame for his depictions of proud toreros and vivacious flamenco dancers, the simple life of the rural population, ascetics and penitents against the backdrop of vast, barren landscapes, beggars, little persons, and witches, echoing the artistic legacy of Diego Velázquez and Francisco de Goya. In an era of massive industrialization and Spain’s increasing orientation toward European modernism, Zuloaga sought to preserve the “Spanish soul” with these scenes. For the first time in Germany, the Kunsthalle München is turning the spotlight onto this painter, virtually unknown here, with a large monographic exhibition, which will afterwards be shown at Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg.
