The End of Painting. Karl Hagemeister and painting today.

Starting with Hagemeister’s wave paintings, the Bröhan-Museum is turningits gaze forward, into the 20th and 21st centuries: The show includes painterly, graphic, as well as sculptural and conceptual approaches by 18 contemporary artists. By comparing his painings with contemporary works that take painting to extremes, question it, or even negate it, the modernity of the "color painter" Karl Hagemeister becomes clear. At the same time, the exhibition allows a new look at the almost infinite possibilities of the medium of painting, always linked to the attempt toexplore the end of painting even further.