The Way We Are

With loans from the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection

With works by more than one hundred artists and artist groups from various eras and places around this world, The Way We Are opens multifaceted perspectives onto contemporary art.

There are spaces dedicated to depictions of the self or perceptions of landscape, to images of Germany, to formulated empowerment or manifested power hierarchies, to new perspectives on art history or everyday life, to nationalism or surveillance, but also to the vertical form or the diversity of the color black. Thus the focus is on art-historical issues as well as social-political discourses. Approaches from the 1960s and 1970s are being further developed in the present day, renowned names are challenged by young, not-yet-discovered positions, established standpoints of classical art history are brushed against the grain.

A basic idea running through the exhibition is the potential of art to develop oppositional points of view onto what is familiar and to adopt surprising perspectives with regard to what links us all. This gives rise to fascinating, humorous, poetical and radical possibilities for approaching issues of current topicality by way of art. (Text Weserburg Museum for Contemporary Art)