The third edition of the exhibition format The Way We Are likewise presents spaces devoted to themes and artists with works loaned from affiliated private collections, offered by the featured artists and drawn from the museum’s own holdings. The focus is on issues such as the contemporary image of the human being, the role of daily life or photography after photography, as well as on minimalistic tendencies, images of Germany, the medium of the book or contemporary art as an expression of aesthetic contradiction.

With Richard Prince (*1949) and Peter Piller (*1968), two artists focusing respectively on American myths and the realities of life in Germany — different generations, diverse worlds —, there is an encounter at the Weserburg Museum for Modern Art between two extremely original artistic oeuvres offering exemplary presentations of life and thought in and through pictures.

Internationally, numerous artists have dealt directly or indirectly with olfactory aspects in their artist publications. This was done on the one hand through a conceptual examination and on the other hand by dealing with materials that smell.

Timm Ulrichs sees himself as a total artist, since on the one hand he places his body at the center of his work, and on the other hand he works with all kinds of media available to him. Since the 1960s, Timm Ulrichs has produced artworks in many forms.

The Weserburg presents Ulla von Brandenburg, one of the most exciting, internationally renowned installation artists of her generation in a comprehensive solo exhibition. The artist transforms exhibition spaces into colorful dream worlds and sensual spaces of experience using large-format fabrics, huge installations, intimate objects, playful films, collages, paper cuttings, watercolors and performances. Ulla von Brandenburg emphasizes that "the experience of discovering these spaces, the path, the search, is the actual work of art, not the objects on display".