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Made in Germany two Hannover | 2012

Die Ausstellung MADE IN GERMANY ZWEI endete am 19. August 2012 – über 58.000 Besucher sahen die Ausstellung.

Here you will a review of exhibition of 2012 in Hannover.

What issues concern international contemporary artists working in Germany? What vocabularies of form do they use in their work? What themes are important? The Sprengel Museum Hannover, the kestnergesellschaft, and the Kunstverein Hannover addressed these questions in an extensive survey, MADE IN GERMANY ZWEI.

The exhibition was the successor of the popular 2007 show “Made in Germany,” the three art centers’ first collaborative exhibition. The exhibition presented the work of 45 young artists of international backgrounds currently living and working in Germany. MADE IN GERMANY ZWEI focused on six main themes designed to highlight current artistic concerns. The curators of the exhibition placed the artistic involvement with (social, virtual, institutional) “Spaces,” “Narrativity,” “Networkings,” with “The past in the present,” with the “Super-sensory,” and with the limitations and stretching of the medium (“Medium as material”) at the center of their inquiry into the current state of artistic creativity in Germany as possible approaches to the exhibition. Many of the works in the show were created specifically for MADE IN GERMANY ZWEI to exemplify contemporary art and forms of expression.

Made in Germany zwei Hannover

Alexandra Bircken
Installationsansicht „Think of me“, Kimmerich, New York, 2011

Alon Levin
The fake, the future and the finite (a commemoration of the absolute in the 21st Century), Part 1: Sun, Rainbow, Arch (reinvented), 2008
Holz, Farbe, 550 x 75 x 300 cm
Courtesy Klemm's, Berlin

Holz, Stoff, Metall, MP3-Player, Verstärker, Boxen, Glühbirnen, Leuchtröhren, Kabel, gerahmtes Poster
Courtesy Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin

Marcellvs L.
O, 2010
HDV, übertragen auf Hard Drive, synchronisierte fünf-Kanal Videoinstallation, fünf-Kanal Soundsystem
42:19 Min.
Courtesy carlier | gebauer, Berlin

In “Made in Germany” in 2007 the three institutions introduced fifty-two artistic positions. By contrast to the globally oriented Documenta in Kassel, which took place at the same time, the presentation concentrated on the art scene in Germany. “Made in Germany” was a sweeping success and conveyed an impression of the active, high-quality and varied art scene in the country. It included several artists who were discovered internationally as a result of the exhibition, which had over 60,000 visitors and around 400 reviews.

Here you will find information about artists of Made in Germany two.