The Kunsthalle is dedicating the largest special exhibition in Germany in more than fifteen years to Nouveau Réalisme and its milieu. For the first time, the project draws a comprehensive, multipolar, and global cartography of the movement, with its epicenter in Paris, whose international expansion extends beyond the group initiated by Pierre Restany in 1960.
Between the postwar period and the early 1970s, a generation of artists in Europe, Latin America, and the United States focused on the potential of found objects and established a new, radical formal language through direct engagement with reality as material.
Based on outstanding works from the collection—by Arman, César, Yves Klein, Mimmo Rotella, Daniel Spoerri, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Jacques de la Villeglé—the exhibition aims to contextualize the phenomenon in its historical space and to include artists and other positions in the discourse that contributed significantly to the definition of the new languages.
Curator: Luisa Heese
Curatorial assistance: Dr. Stefano Agresti
