Local Histories

Works from the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection at Hamburger Bahnhof, the Nationalgalerie Collection and loans.

“Things can only be diverse and should be diverse,” wrote Donald Judd in 1964 about the art scene in New York, and hence rejected a one-dimensional ordering of art history in favor of an open encounter with works of art. In this sense, the works in this experimental collection presentation are also set in relation to one another along with their specific local context: situational ‘snapshots’ from the 1960s in New York and Düsseldorf, to the 1980s in Cologne, and up to the 1990s in Berlin and Los Angeles, which are deepened and thought further in the accompanying essays of this exhibition catalogue.

Artists: Josef Albers, Carl Andre, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lee Bontecou, George Brecht, John Chamberlain, Hanne Darboven, Dan Flavin, Isa Genzken, Jenny Holzer, Richard Jackson, Donald Judd, Allan Kaprow, Manfred Kuttner, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Sol LeWitt, Walter de Maria, Paul McCarthy, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Sigmar Polke, Charlotte Posenenske, Timm Rautert, Jason Rhoades, Gerhard Richter, George Segal, Cindy Sherman, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Frank Stella, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Rosemarie Trockel, Larence Weiner