Students from the Kunstschule Wandsbek create an exhibition: Photos touch us. We touch photos - nowadays, the next picture is just a swipe away with your finger. But just as quickly it disappears again in the flood of media images. How can the fleeting, digital moment be captured? What alternative forms and materials can a photo take? What does an image even feel like?

Among the fruitful relationships between art and literature, the dialogue between poetry and sculpture plays a special role in contemporary art. With an international selection, the group exhibition is dedicated to the multi-faceted forms of sculptural poetry since the 1960s. Objects are inscribed with texts, or the letters themselves appear as three-dimensional works of art, form spaces and are the subject of actions and performances.

In the exhibition Heute schreibe ich (Today I write), Katharina Zorn and Jasna Fritzi Bauer combine poems by Bremen residents with audio-visual forms of presentation. The artists integrate and transform the poetry into short films and multimedia installations, among other things.

Silvia Bächli (*1956 in Baden, lives in Basel) is considered one of the most important drawing positions of her generation. For 40 years, her works in ink, charcoal, pastel chalk or gouache have enriched the oldest genre of fine art with new and unexpected impulses.

The different use of color is the theme of the two Dutch artists Nan Groot Antink and Fransje Killaars. In the works of Nan Groot Antink (*1954), colours appear in their purest form, while Fransje Killaars (*1959) uses textiles as carrier of color.

Today the Peruvian artist Teresa Burga (1935–2021) has long been considered to be one of the important pioneers of Pop Art and Concept Art in Latin America. The exhibition accordingly concentrates on the extensive graphic oeuvre of the artist, especially the sheets done from 2013 to 2021. Many of the exhibited works are being shown to the public for the first time. The graphic sheets on which the artist worked right up to her death in February 2021 are linked at the Weserburg with drawings, linocuts, and a space-encompassing object installation from the 1960s. In this way, a bridge is extended from the late oeuvre back to the early works.

The exhibition takes the act of writing as a starting point to reflect on a variety of recent art practices in and around Southeast Asia, focusing on the complexity of reading, performing, understanding, and translating these texts. On view is a wide selection of artists' books, as well as artists' magazines, prints and graphic works, artists' postcards, multiples, radio art, records, and CDs.

The Way We Are 4.0 brings together some one hundred works from more than eighty artists and artist groups from different eras and contexts. Five thematic areas spread across 2,500 m² convey insights into international art from the 1960s to the present day: Worlds of the Body, Views of Germany, Aesthetic Objection, Displaced Everyday Life, and Minimalistic Tendencies. These thematic classifications are complemented by a series of artist spaces and an extraordinary art bar consisting of a former film set. This gives rise to unexpected readings of the art of our current era with respect to all the media.

In 2019, around 210 individual works by Norbert Schwontkowski (born 1949 in Blumenthal, died 2013 in Bremen) from the Brigitte and Udo Seinsoth Collection entered the Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst on a permanent basis. Since then, an artist's room dedicated to Norbert Schwontkowski has been an integral part of the exhibition format "The Way We Are". The selection of works and their emphasis in terms of content are varied at regular intervals.

Flags are vividly expressive political symbols that are used in many different ways in artistic works. They stand for shared, communal convictions and values, emphasize national sovereignty, mark territorial borders, enclose and exclude. But flags are also used for protest and resistance. The exhibition What is the Proper Way to Display a Flag? focuses on international positions from an international context and endeavors, by means of contemporary artistic production, to reflect upon the significance, impact and utilization of flags. Questions concerning our various conceptions of identity, nation, and provenance come into view.