Pattern Recognition

Pattern Recognition. Revisiting the Municipal Collection Erlangen examines the rich collection fund against the backdrop of numerous upheavals in art and society since the collection's founding years. New technical processes, changes in political systems, globalization in general, but also a general change in the norms of seeing and exhibiting raise the question of where and when the contemporary merges into the historical. Aesthetic as well as thematic commonalities of the various works, in turn, also testify to the constants of artistic creation in the advancing 21st century.

By juxtaposing eleven long-standing works from the collection with eleven new acquisitions or loans by younger artists, the exhibition sets out to find patterns, similarities, and differences that underlie the diverse artistic strategies. The result is eleven intense dialogues that look back over five decades of art history and from which forward-looking narratives simultaneously emerge.

Last edited on 14.01.2025