Against the Grain
From 3 March to 4 June 2023, the Kupferstich-Kabinett, run by Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD), will be holding the exhibition 鈥淎gainst the Grain. Prints of the G眉nther and Annemarie Gercken Foundation鈥� in its exhibition rooms on the third floor of Dresden鈥檚 Residenzschloss. The display will feature some 150 works by 17 artists, ranging from classic modernism to the present.
G眉nther and Annemarie Gercken have been collecting outstanding contemporary art for 70 years. In building their collection, they have displayed unremitting passion, an unerring instinct for quality and a constant readiness to engage intensely with contemporary artistic genres. Their main interest is in how artists get to grips with human beings, their essential abilities and the abyssal depths of their souls. Over the years, it has become a central feature of G眉nther and Annemarie Gercken鈥檚 approach to art to seek inspiration in art that is discomforting, to critically re-appraise habitual perspectives and to think 鈥渁gainst the grain鈥�. The collection includes paintings, sculptures and drawings, but it is prints that take pride of place.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a varied learning and education programme. This will be supplemented by curatorial tours, plus discussions on art with the writer Marcel Beyer on 19 April and the artist Monika Grzymala on 10 May. A public presentation on current trends in printmaking will be held on 24 May by Dr Jenny Graser, who curates the collection of drawings and prints run by Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Our regular live speakers will answer museumgoers鈥� questions on eight Saturdays (11.3, 1.4, 15.4, 29.4, 6.5, 13.5, 27.5, 3.6).
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From 3 March to 4 June 2023, the Kupferstich-Kabinett, run by Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD), will be holding the exhibition 鈥淎gainst the Grain. Prints of the G眉nther and Annemarie Gercken Foundation鈥� in its exhibition rooms on the third floor of Dresden鈥檚 Residenzschloss. The display will feature some 150 works by 17 artists, ranging from classic modernism to the present.
G眉nther and Annemarie Gercken have been collecting outstanding contemporary art for 70 years. In building their collection, they have displayed unremitting passion, an unerring instinct for quality and a constant readiness to engage intensely with contemporary artistic genres. Their main interest is in how artists get to grips with human beings, their essential abilities and the abyssal depths of their souls. Over the years, it has become a central feature of G眉nther and Annemarie Gercken鈥檚 approach to art to seek inspiration in art that is discomforting, to critically re-appraise habitual perspectives and to think 鈥渁gainst the grain鈥�. The collection includes paintings, sculptures and drawings, but it is prints that take pride of place.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a varied learning and education programme. This will be supplemented by curatorial tours, plus discussions on art with the writer Marcel Beyer on 19 April and the artist Monika Grzymala on 10 May. A public presentation on current trends in printmaking will be held on 24 May by Dr Jenny Graser, who curates the collection of drawings and prints run by Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Our regular live speakers will answer museumgoers鈥� questions on eight Saturdays (11.3, 1.4, 15.4, 29.4, 6.5, 13.5, 27.5, 3.6).
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