Featuring some 70 works, the exhibition Journey into Freedom. Capri – Skagen – Monte Verità sheds light on the phenomenon of the European artists’ colony in Europe between 1830 and 1930.
In an age of social upheavals resulting from the industrial revolution, artists explored alternative lifestyles and social utopias away from the large cities, and brought subjects such as women’s emancipation, queer identity and the connection with nature centre-stage. The exhibition presents three selected dream destinations and allows visitors to experience the artistic breakthrough into a free and communal future.
It confronts us with romantic and idealised depictions of landscape alongside naturalistic – sometimes brutal – images of the everyday life of workers, particularly fishermen. At the same time, it brings together art-historical and social issues with surprising contemporary relevance.
Co-Curators: Livia Wermuth and Andreas Schwab
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