Art

21 Museums, one exhibition: "21x21" in the Villa Hügel

11.04.2025 - 27.07.2025
The RuhrKunstMuseen: 15 years ago, the 21 venues in 16 region cities joined forces and are now already celebrating the round anniversary with a web app and in 2025 with a major exhibition at Villa Hügel in Essen.

The Web app is already live: it presents all 21 museums with 400 selected works and establishes connections between them. For this purpose, each of the RuhrKunstMuseen has selected a piece from its own collection as a key work. The other 20 respond with a work from their collection. After this digital appetizer, the "21 x 21" project will continue live in April – with a large community exhibition in the Villa Hügel, bringing together around a hundred works from the RuhrKunstMuseen. Spaces will be set up there, each defining a theme with one work that all other exhibited pieces respond to. This creates a broad dialogue – across the Ruhr area and through art epochs from Classical Modernism to the present. The presentation in the entrance of the Villa Hügel, for example, places Wilhelm Lehmbruck's "Große Sinnende" from the Lehmbruck Museum at the center – it will provide the impetus for an artistic discussion about the image of women and gender relations in art. Rosemarie Trockel with her 1993 work "Herdbild" from the Museum Küppersmühle and the 1984-born US artist Eliza Douglas, who focuses solely on long legs in her depiction of women – titled "The Potential of Being," which comes from the Museum Folkwang – will respond to Lehmbruck's female bronze nude from 1913. In this way, the RuhrKunstMuseen skillfully pass the ball to each other – this certainly not only strengthens team spirit but also the image of the 21 as a strong team.

Art

21 Museums, one exhibition: "21x21" in the Villa Hügel

11.04.2025 - 27.07.2025

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