Könnt ihr noch? (Can you still do it?) - Art & Democracy
Top class IV
10.05.2025 - 12.10.2025 ,
Neues Schloss Herrenchiemsee (New Herrenchiemsee Palace)
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The exhibition presents over 50 high-calibre works by international artists from the collection of the Pinakothek der Moderne (Pinacotheca of the Modern) (Munich), whose works deal with fundamental democratic values such as freedom, self-determination and human dignity.
Masterpieces from the Bavarian State Painting Collections from classical modernism to the present day meet site-specific works. The exhibition thus refers to the constitutional convention that took place on Herrenchiemsee in August 1948 and laid the foundations for the German constitution.
The title of the exhibition quotes the tech rap band Deichkind. Their song of the same title uses imagery to describe our accelerated society. It is a communal, unifying "you" that deals with one of the most pressing questions of our society: our relationship to democracy. How motivated are we to continue defending it? How exhausted are we as a democratic society? In view of the constant threats and undermining of democracies through populism and extremism, through terror and war, there is a consensus that we must do something for democracy. The once hard-won values of leading a self-determined, free life in this form of government are often vague and difficult to grasp or have become all too self-evident.
The exhibition is a co-operation between the Bavarian Palace Administration and the Pinakothek der Moderne (Pinacotheca of the Modern) in Munich.
Last edited on 13.10.2025
