Friendship. Nature. Culture
Works of the Collection 1920–2021
The head of the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection, Renate Wiehager, regularly presents a work from the collection in the Mercedes me magazine. This time with Oskar Schlemmer and Zanele Muholi.
For the Mercedes-Benz Sustainability Report 2021, Renate Wiehager, curator of the exhibition ‘Friendship. Nature. Culture,’ spoke with the two artists Yuken Teruya and Buhlebezwe Siwani about transformation and our responsibility in dealing with nature. Read the interview here.
Our group show ‘Friendship. Nature. Culture’ can only be visited in accordance with the current Corona regulations. Wearing an FFP2 is mandatory throughout the exhibition space. A visit is currently possible without reserving a time slot. We are very much looking forward to welcome you!
In a five-part series of digital Dialogue Lectures, the 31: Women exhibition’s curator, Dr. Renate Wiehager, and Dr. Katharina Neuburger discuss the connection between the exhibition 31: Women and the research project Duchamp and the Women | Duchamp as Curator. Published in 2020, the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection’s book Duchamp and the Women uses essays and biographical portraits to present the works and […]
Annabelle Hirsch reviews the recent publication “Marcel Duchamp and the Women. Friendship, Cooperation, Network” as a book, “not only about Marcel Duchamp, but about the women of the 20th century and about the role of friendship in the Avantgarde.” Hirsch points out the great overview of biographies, images, documents and texts about the Artists, Writers […]
The Mercedes-Benz Art Collection started in 1977 with the acquisition of a painting by Willi Baumeister, and has since then developed a clear profile that has been built up steadily and systematically. Today the Collection represents an important spectrum of major 20th century art developments and pictorial ideas, primarily in the field of abstraction. It extends right up to the present day: Examples of abstract art range from the avant-garde tendencies associated with the German Bauhaus movement and classic modernist art, Concrete Art, Constructivism and post-1945 Art Informel, the European Zero movement, Minimalism and Conceptual art, Neo Geo, post-minimalism and conceptual tendencies within international contemporary art, car-related art, international photography, video art and public sculptures. The Mercedes-Benz Art Collection reflects a commitment to art as a full part of the company’s self-image and cultural profile.