Resonance Spaces at the New Gallery: Experience Art and Memory in Kassel

Event: Resonance Spaces in Neue Galerie, Schöne Aussicht 1, 34117 Kassel on 19. April 2026

Date and Time

19. April 2026 10:00

Location

Neue Galerie
Schöne Aussicht 1, 34117 Kassel, Deutschland

Price

8,00

About this Event

Exhibitions & Museums

Mood

Relaxed

Venue Type

Inside

Resonance Spaces at the New Gallery: When Memory Becomes an Artistic Experience

The special exhibition Resonance Spaces at the New Gallery Kassel offers a focused look at significant new acquisitions from recent years. To mark the 50th anniversary of the institution, the exhibition showcases large-scale installations, films, and objects that translate collective and personal memory into an impressive exhibition atmosphere.

Modern Art in the Tension Between Space and Memory

Since 1976, the New Gallery has presented art from the 19th to 21st centuries and has been closely linked to the history of documenta in Kassel. This institutional lineage also shapes Resonance Spaces: The exhibition makes visible how contemporary positions are inscribed into a collection that emphasizes exchange, presence, and aesthetic experience.

Works that Do Not Allow History to Stand Still

Particularly prominent are works by Pınar Öğrenci, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Michal Heiman, and Ute Lindner. Öğrenci's film Aşît unfolds a collaborative remembering, Olbrich's collection of discarded photographs makes the ephemeral visible, Heiman questions psychological testing structures, and Lindner reflects on time, image traditions, and exposure processes. Thus, a contemplation of works emerges in which installation, film, and object art engage in dialogue.

Curating with Documenta Reference

The exhibition benefits from the unique DNA of the New Gallery: international positions, new media, and discursive art forms have been part of its profile for decades. For visitors, this means a museum experience in which art history does not appear as a completed chronicle, but as a living resonance space between collection, present, and cultural education.

A Visit that Resonates

Resonance Spaces is aimed at all those who want to experience art not just visually but also intellectually and sensorially. Those who engage with this exhibition will encounter works of great presence, fine historical references, and a strong spatial impact. A visit to the New Gallery is definitely worth experiencing live.

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