The Mercedes-Benz Art Collection at the Museum für Neue Kunst | ZKM Karlsruhe
A Comprehensive Portrait of the Collection








The Mercedes-Benz Art Collection, one of the major German company art collections, is, for the first time, presenting an extensive body of works at the Museum für Neue Kunst | ZKM Karlsruhe (Center for Art and Media Technology) Karlsruhe. The exhibition shows paintings, sculpture, photography and video art thematically. The Collection, founded in 1977, reflects the most important developments in 20th century abstract art starting with representative groups of works of concrete and constructive art, minimal art and conceptual art exhibits, to the most recent international art trends.
The exhibition shows painting, sculpture, photography and video art thematically, thus cutting across generations and classifications. The show centers around recent acquisitions. For the Karlsruhe exhibition, classical modern artists and avant-garde figures from the 1960/70s like Josef Albers, Daniel Buren, Francois Morellet, Gottfried Honegger, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Richard Artschwager, Robert Ryman or Herman de Vries are placed alongside young artists such as Doug Aitken, John M Armleder, Tacita Dean, Cor Dera, Sylvie Fleury, Bernard Frize, Gail Hastings, Isabell Heimerdinger, Gerold Miller, Jonathan Monk, Kirsten Mosher, Ugo Rondinone, Karin Sander, Pietro Sanguinetti, Simone Westerwinter, Georg Winter and Andrea Zittel.
The Karlsruhe exhibition is the first stop on a world tour of the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection. Afterwards, selected works of art from the Corporate’s Collection will continue on to Detroit, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town.
Artists
- Bernhard Heiliger
- Doug Aitken
- Josef Albers
- Jane Alexander
- Ian Anüll
- Are You Meaning Company
- John M Armleder
- Jean Arp
- Richard Artschwager
- Douwe Jan Bakker
- Robert Barry
- Max Bill
- Greg Bogin
- Daniele Buetti
- Daniel Buren
- Ian Burn
- Hartmut Böhm
- André Cadere
- Anthony Caro
- Enrico Castellani
- Dadamaino
- Hanne Darboven
- Gene Davis
- Tacita Dean
- Cor Dera
- Gia Edzgveradze
- Maria Eichhorn
- Ulrich Erben
- Sylvie Fleury
- Andrea Fraser
- Günther Förg
- Rupprecht Geiger
- Martin Gerwers
- Hermann Glöckner
- Kuno Gonschior
- Dmitry Gutov
- Peter Halley
- Gail Hastings
- Isabell Heimerdinger
- Michael Heizer
- Jan Henderikse
- Esther Hiepler
- Oskar Holweck
- Gottfried Honegger
- Markus Huemer
- Imi Knoebel
- Takehito Koganezawa
- Joseph Kosuth
- Norbert Kricke
- Bertrand Lavier
- Thomas Lenk
- Almir da Silva Mavignier
- John McLaughlin
- Gerold Miller
- François Morellet
- Sarah Morris
- Kirsten Mosher
- Olivier Mosset
- John Nixon
- David Novros
- Nam June Paik
- Giulio Paolini
- Philippe Parreno
- Henk Peeters
- Verena Pfisterer
- Charlotte Posenenske
- Silke Radenhausen
- Martial Raysse
- Eva-Maria Reiner
- Gerwald Rockenschaub
- Peter Roehr
- Ugo Rondinone
- Robert Ryman
- Karin Sander
- Pietro Sanguineti
- Eckhard Schene
- Jan J. Schoonhoven
- Alf Schuler
- Roman Signer
- Jesús Rafael Soto
- Klaus Staudt
- Henryk Stażewski
- Katja Strunz
- Elaine Sturtevant
- Jean Tinguely
- Jef Verheyen
- Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart
- Franz Erhard Walther
- Andy Warhol
- Simone Westerwinter
- Georg Winter
- Michael Zahn
- Andrea Zittel
- Heimo Zobernig
- Auke de Vries
- Herman de Vries
- Jan van der Ploeg