The collective exhibition Lacuna—Inside a Dumpling takes the production of dumplings as its central point of departure. Like the empty space surrounded by a dumpling, the project itself also functions as a lacuna. It offers a site for encounters that will become filled with narrations, animations, ceramics and objects. Beginning at noon on four Sundays during the exhibition period, the artists will activate this space with workshops and performances while simultaneously serving freshly prepared dumplings from different regions.

The Swiss artist Hannah Villiger (1951-1997) was a trained sculptor who used the Polaroid camera to cartographically scan her own body and her immediate spatial surroundings, examining them for their sculptural qualities in large-scale image formats and expansive blocks. In her work, questioning of one’s own being by means of body, nature or urban architecture meets the experimental mixing of classical genres. Using these themes, her work formulates a clarity, a courage, and a poetry that are more relevant today than ever.

What got underway in 2019 as the experimental trying-out of a new exhibition format has successfully established itself in the meantime. This will be the fifth new hanging of the collection exhibition “The Way We Are.”
Instead of concentrating on the presentation of a single collection, the serially structured exhibition brings together loans from a large number of international collections both private and corporate as well as from artists, augmented with exemplars from the museum’s own stock of works.

The internationally active collector, gallery owner, publisher, essayist, filmmaker and producer of radio programs Guy Schraenen had, as a freelance curator, a formative influence on the development of today’s Centre for Artists’ Publications at the Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst. The Archive for Small Press & Communication (ASPC) which he established in Antwerpen in 1974 served as the basis for the foundation in 1999 of this centre at the Weserburg, today the only one of its kind throughout Europe. Over more than ten years, Schraenen presented around thirty exhibitions at the Weserburg.

The Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst is presenting the first institutional solo exhibition of Kay Rosen in Europe. Ever since the 1970s, the American artist (*1943 in Corpus Christi, Texas; lives in New York City and Gary, Indiana) has been using language as artistic material. She is internationally known above all for wall works which render individual words, sentences or series of letters, often in massive dimensions. Coming together here in an impressive manner are minimalist form, aesthetic impact and intelligent contents.