| | | | | | | | Ellen Kooi
Nieuwkoop – Lock, 2004
C-print, Diasec, 100 x 162,5 cm
© Ellen Kooi, courtesy Torch Gallery Amsterdam, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019 | | | | | 10 Years of MKdW – Contemporary | | | | | | | 16 July 2019 – 12 January 2020 | | | | | | MKdW MUSEUM KUNST DER WESTKÜSTE Hauptstr. 1, 25938 Alkersum
Island Föhr - Germany
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| | | | | | | | | Mette Tronvoll
Godfarfossen, 2013
C-print, framed, 80 x 80 cm
Private collection | | | | | | The Museum Kunst der Westküste celebrates its tenth birthday with two ambitious exhibitions. '10 Years of MKdW – Masterpieces' presents around 100 highlights from the collection with its unique focus on the motifs of the 'sea & coast' together with more than 50 masterpieces from the four North Sea border states, whose art has been on display at the museum for ten years: the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and across Germany. In this way, the museum presents a century of painting, from Romanticism to Modernism.
The Museum Kunst der Westküste is again also devoting attention to contemporary art by assembling exciting artistic practices in photography under the title '10 Years of MKdW – Contemporary'. The artists each represent their home country: one of the four countries of the West Coast. | | | | | | | | | Joakim Eskildsen
Skagen X, 2008
Pigment print, framed, 55 x 65 cm
Courtesy of the artist | | | | | | In their photographic works, the Dane Joakim Eskildsen, the German artist Anja Jensen, Ellen Kooi of the Netherlands and the Norwegian Mette Tronvoll establish links to motifs from the masterpieces and direct attention to the people who live in the coastal landscapes.
At the same time, the character of the works is neither clearly observational nor staged; instead, the photographs develop their intense visual effect at the intersection between the two. Regarding the images' subject matter and selection of details, similar elements among them as well as similarities to the paintings, oil sketches and works on paper in the exhibition.
The exhibition presents works from Joakim Eskildsen's series 'Skagen', which is already part of the collection and is now being complemented by additional images. Like Eskildsen, Anja Jensen has already exhibited her work in Alkersum on Föhr as an artist in residence, and she presents photographic works created on the island last year. By contrast, the art of Ellen Kooi and Mette Tronvoll is being shown at the MKdW for the first time. | | | | | | | | | Anja Jensen
Hunch, 2019
Diasec, framed, 140 x 200 cm
Courtesy of the artist © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019 | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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