What May Vanish Becomes Image.
Regarding Nature and Art
Opening What May Vanish Becomes Image. Regarding Nature and Art
When:
Mon, March 3, 2025, 7pm–11pm
Free admission
What else:
There will be simultaneous translation into German Sign Language.
No registration is required.
When:
Mon, March 3, 2025, 7pm–11pm
Free admission
What else:
There will be simultaneous translation into German Sign Language.
No registration is required.
On Monday, Mach 3 from 7pm, the opening of the exhibition "What May Vanish Becomes Image. Regarding Nature and Art" will take place. Lenbachhaus Munich cordially invites you and your friends!
It is a truism, as frightening as it is fascinating: everything that has been captured in images no longer exists, or not in the form in which it was depicted. In visual art, impermanence is often conveyed allegorically, by a memento mori or melancholy meditation on the evanescence of things. Images of dreams, encounters with people, explorations of nature similarly convey only passing instants. Sometimes the ephemeral becomes the explicit subject of a picture that nonetheless seeks to record it: clouds are forever changing shapes, snow soon melts, trees bloom only briefly.
In this age of climate change, the awareness that our entire environment is undergoing rapid transformation has become universal. That is why we now see works of landscape art in particular with different eyes. They show nature as always already marked by human interference. No longer just a fine sight, a landscape now becomes an endangered ecosystem.
The exhibition is structured around such instants of recognition. It presents well-known as well as rarely or never-seen works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from the collections of the Lenbachhaus, the Historischer Verein von Oberbayern (Historical Society of Upper Bavaria), the Christoph Heilmann Foundation, the Munich Secession, the Gabriele Münter and Johannes Eichner Foundation, and the Förderverein Lenbachhaus e.V. Art works with the ephemeral and with the knowledge of transience. That is where it concurs with the idea of the museum, which holds works of art, collects them, and proposes to both preserve them and share them with the public.
With speeches from
Florian Roth, Member of the Munich City Council representing the Lord Mayor
Matthias Mühling, Director of Lenbachhaus,
Karin Althaus, Curator of the exhibition
In the context of the exhibition
What May Vanish Becomes Image.
