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VOLKSWAGEN ART4ALL: Free Admission and a Discussion about the Mural of Richard Jackson on 7 February 2019

25.01.2019
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin

As part of the special exhibition Local Histories and the VOLKSWAGEN ART4ALL series, a discussion about the reenactment of Richard Jackson’s large-format wall mural in the Rieckhallen at the Hamburger Bahnhof will take place on Thursday, 7 February 2019 at 6 pm.

The event looks behind the scenes and walls of a museum and offers insights into the aspects and challenges of working with a contemporary collection. The over 20-metre wide mural created by the US artist Richard Jackson (b. 1939) in 1998/2006 was uncovered again for the first time for the current exhibition Local Histories. In front of the artwork, curator Matilda Felix and conservator Eva Rieß talk about its condition after having been covered for those 12 years and discuss special conservation issues that can arise when dealing with contemporary art.

VOLKSWAGEN ART4ALL

Since April 2018 admission at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin has been free on the first Thursday of the month from 4 pm to 8 pm. The initiative, made possible by Volkswagen, a longstanding partner of the Nationalgalerie, offers a diverse event programme as well as additional tours and workshops for children in the current exhibitions.

The following special exhibitions can be visited free of charge on Thursday, 7 February 2019, from 4 pm to 8 pm:

• Agnieszka Polska. The Demon’s Brain: 27 September 2018–3 March 2019
• Maler. Mentor. Magier. Otto Mueller und sein Netzwerk in Breslau (Painter, Mentor, Magician: Otto Mueller and His Network in Wrocław): 12 October 2018–3 March 2019
• Sam Pulitzer. Whim or Sentiment or Chance: 18 October 2018–14 April 2019
• Der Elefant im Raum. Sculpturen aus der Marx Collection and the Nationalgalerie Collection (The Elefant in the Room: Sculptures from the Marx Collection and the Nationalgalerie Collection): 1 November 2018–8 September 2019
• How to talk with birds, trees, fish, shells, snakes, bulls and lions: 16 November 2018–12 May 2019
• Local Histories. Werke aus der Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof, der Sammlung der Nationalgalerie und Leihgaben (Local Histories: Works from the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection in the Hamburger Bahnhof, the Nationalgalerie Collection and Loans): 15 December 2018–29 September 2019

Volkswagen Cultural Sponsoring

With its sponsoring of art and culture Volkswagen is assuming social responsibility. In its collaborations with cultural partners, the company focuses on bringing as many people as possible into contact with creativity. Volkswagen promotes, in particular, cultural educational opportunities that deepen an understanding of creative and innovative processes. Volkswagen’s commitment to culture is founded on sustainable collaborations with artists, people active in the field of culture, and cultural institutions around the world. The Volkswagen Group, with headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany, is one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers and the largest in Europe, with a total of twelve brands.