Not only since the start of the Romantic era has painting been regarded as the leading artistic discipline in Germany. To this day, the nation of Painter Princes continues to promote the development of the art of painting and enjoys a worldwide reputation with artists like Gerhard Richter, Katharina Grosse, Neo Rauch and Albert Oehlen. Here we encounter a survey of young artists in particular from the surrounding of the academies in Berlin, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Munich and Stuttgart. The next generation of important painters is presented with several works, opulent illustrations and statements by artists and experts from the contemporary painting scene in Germany.
Stephan Berg is curator and has been director of the Kunstmuseum Bonn since April 2008. Frederic Bussmann is general director of the Art Collections of Chemnitz. Alexander Klar is director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle. More than 50 young artists who are currently breaking new ground in painting
Artists:
MONA ARDELEANU | ISRAEL ATEN | PAULA BAADER | LYDIA BALKE | CORNELIA BALTES | AGODA BEDNARSKY |
VIOLA BITTL | PEPPI BOTTROP | ANDREAS BREUNIG | PAUL CZERLITZKI | BENJAMIN DITTRICH | JENS EINHORN |
JENNY FORSTER | PIUS FOX | MAX FRINTROP | SABRINA FRITSCH | INA GERKEN | FABIAN GINSBERG | GREGOR
GLEIWITZ | LUKAS GLINKOWSKI | SEBASTIAN GÖGEL | HENRIETTE GRAHNERT | DANA GREINER | VIVIAN GREVEN |
TOULU HASSAN | SABRINA HAUNSPERG | FRANZISKA HOLSTEIN | ANETA KAJZER | SUMI KIM | MAXIMILIAN KIRMSE |
LI-WEN KUO | BENEDIKT LEONHARDT | DAVID LEHMANN | FLORIAN MEISENBERG | ONIKA MICHALKO | HANNES
MICHANEK | SIMON MODERSOHN | BASTIAN MUHR | ANNA NERO | MORITZ NEUHOFF | VERA PALME |
ALEXANDER PRÖPSTER | FRANZISKA REINBOTHE | DANIEL ROSSI | MARKUS SAILE | MORITZ SCHLEIME | JANA
SCHRÖDER | DANIEL SCHUBERT | KRISTINA SCHULDT | ALICIA VIEBROCK | STEFAN VOGEL | JONAS WEICHSEL |
TRISTAN WILCZEK