exhibitions

exhibitions implemented during my directorship:

1. 2010-2007 Development of Projects

   • Mass Migration: Rome and the Barbarians
   • Anselm Kiefer: A Retrospective
   • The Renaissance in Germany
   • The Origins of Buddhism: Gandhara
   • Pomp and daily life in the Byzantinian Empire
   • James Cook and the South Seas
   • Napoleon
   • Queen Victoria
   • The Vatican III
   • Marina Abramovitsch

2. 5^th April 2007 to 27^th January 2008

   Egypt‟s Sunken Treasures

3. 16^th May to 26^th August 2007

   Russia‟s soul – icons, paintings and drawings from the Tretjakow Gallery, Moscow

4. 15^th December 2006 to 9^th April 2007

   Angkor – Sacred Heritage of Cambodia

5. 9^th February to 11^th March 2007
   18^th National competition 2007

   Art students present their work

6. 21^st July 2006 to 11^th March 2007

   The Guggenheim Collection

7. 26^th September to 12th November 2006

   The Guggenheim Architecture (G)

8. 21^st April to 23^rd July 2006

   „Xia‟an – Kaiserliche Macht in Jenseits‟ (Imperial power in the Afterlife)
   Burial finds and temple treasures from China‟s old capital

9. 17^th February to 14^th May 2006

   Poussin, Lorrain, Watteau, Fragonard… French 17^th and 18th century masterpieces from German collections
   

10. 25^th November 2005 to 19^th March 2006

    Vatican Barock
    Art and culture in the Rome of the popes II

11. 27^th January to 26^th February 2006

    Jochen Gerz – an anthology of art

12. 30^th September 2005 to 8th January 2006

    German national treasures
    From Luther to Bauhaus

13. 12^th August to 6^th November 2005

    Van Gogh to Beuys ...
    CROSSART: Contemporary masterpieces from 10 German and Dutch museums

14. 16^th June to 25^th September

    Dshingis Khan and his heirs
    The Mongolian Empire

15. 29^th April to 21^st August 2005

    10 000 years of Jordanian art and culture
    „Gesichter des Orients“ (The varying faces of the Orient)

16. 19^th March to 3^rd July 2005

    „Krone und Schleier“ (Crown and veil)
    Art from medieval nunneries

17. 4^th November to 1^st May 2005

    TUTANCHAMUN
    „Das golden Jenseits“ (The Golden Afterlife)
    Tomb treasures from the Valley of the Kings

18. 25^th February to 28^th March 2005

    Art students present their work
    17th national competition of the German Ministry for Education and Research

19. 22^nd October 2004 to 9^th January 2005

    Art in the GDR

20. 23^rd July 2004 to 9^th January 2005

    „Die Thraker – Das goldene Reich des Orpheus“
    (The Thracians - Orpheus‟s Golden Realm)

21. 2^nd April to 8^th August 2004

    Georg Baselitz: „Bilder, die den Kopf verdrehen“ (Pictures that turn your head)
    A retrospective. Pictures and sculptures from 1959 to 2004

22. 2^nd April to 8th August 2004

    Photographic contact. Benjamin Katz: Georg Baselitz

23. 13^th February to 31^st May 2004

    The Kremlin. „Gottesruhm und Tzarenpracht“ (Divine glory and czarist luxury)

24. 21^st November 2003 to 29^th February 2004

    Treasures from the East. The Imperial Collection from the National Palace Museum, Taipei

25. 14^th November 2003 to 29^th February 2004

    Child refugees. Portraits by Sebastia Salgado

26. 26^th September 2003 to 11^th January 2004

    The Aztecs

27. 3^rd October 2003 to 4^th January 2004

    „Kleine Prinzen“ (Little Princes). 16^th to 19^th Century children‟s portraits from the collection of the Fundacion Yannick y Ben Jokober

28. 29^th August to 26^th October 2003

    „Japans Schönheit, Japans Seele“ (Japan‟s beauty, Japan‟s soul). Masterpieces from the Tokyo National Museum. The main collections

29. 5^th September to 26^th October 2003

    „Göttliches Alter – Ewige Jugend“ (Divine age – everlasting youth) No masks from the Naito Collection, Nobeoka

30. 5^th September to 26^th October 2003

    100 Years of Tokyo. Photography from the Japanese Camera Museum, Tokyo

31. 23^rd May to 5^th October 2003

    Tony Cragg – „Signs of Life“

32. 9^th May to 24^th August 2003

    „Menschen – Zeiten – Räume“ (People – Time – Places). Archaeology in Germany

33. 4^th April to 29^th June 2003

    „Herbarium der Blicke„ – New additions to the deutschen Künstlerbund Collection (German Artists‟ Association)

34. 7^th March to 29^th June 2003

    Paul Klee in the Rhine region

35. 13^th December 2002 to 6^th April 2003

    „Geist und Gallanterie“ (Mind and Gallantry) – Art and Science in the 18th Century, collection from the Musée du Petit Palais, Paris

36. 31^st January to 2^nd March 2003

    Art students present their work 16th national competition

37. 27^th September 2002 to 12^th January 2003

    VENEZIA! – Art from Venetian palaces. The history of art collection in Venice from the 13th to the 19^th Century.

38. 12^th July to 13^th October 2002

    „Der Griechische Klassik. Idee oder Wirklichkeit?“ (Greek Classicism. Idea or reality?)

39. 9^th May to 18^th August 2002

    Alex Katz. „In Your Face“

40. 22^nd March to 16^th June 2002

    „Welten, Menschen, Augenblicke“ (Worlds, People, Moments) Great female National Geographic photographers.

41. 18^th January to 9^th June 2002

    „Die Hethiter. Das Volk der 1000 Götter“
    (The Hittites. The people with 1000 gods)

42. 10^th August 2001 to 26^th May 2002

    7000 years of Persian art. Masterpieces from the national museum in Teheran

43. 16^th November 2001 to 1^st April 2002

    „Troia – Traum und Wirklichkeit“ (Troy – Dream and reality)

44. 7^th September to 25^th November 2001

    Landscapes from Bruegel to Kandinsky. An exhibition dedicated to the collector Hans Heinrich Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza

45. 1^st June to 23^rd September 2001

    David Hockney. „Exciting times are ahead.“ A retrospective.

46. 23^rd March to 8th July 2001

    „Absolute Windstille“ (Absolutely still) Jürgen Klauke – photographic works

47. 26^th January to 18^th February 2001

    Art students present their work
    15th national competition

48. 15^th December 2000 to 29^th April 2001

    Ancient Peruvian Gold. The royal tombs of Sipán

49. 3^rd November 2000 to 25^th February 2001

    „Leidenschaft ist unser Antrieb“ (We are driven by passion)
    Sigmar Polke – the complete works (1963-2000)

50. 5^th September to 22^nd October 2000

    Marcel Odenbach „Nicht alle Wege führen nach Rom (The Idea of Africa)“ (Not all roads lead to Rome)
    1998/1999

51. 30^th June 2000 to 7^th January 2001

    „Heute ist Morgen – Über die Zukunft von Erfahrungen und Konstruktion“ (Today is tomorrow – on the future of experience and construction)

52. 30^th June to 12^th November 2000

    Design 4:3 – 50 years of Italian German design

53. 26^th May to 30^th July 2000

    111 years of adventure and discovery. National Geographic photography

54. 17^th May to 1^st October 2000

    Synagogues in Germany. A virtual reconstruction

55. 28^th April to 27^th August 2000

    O.H.Hajek. „Eine Welt der Zeichen“ (A world of symbols)

56. 25^th February to 21^st May 2000

    Emperor Karl V (1500-1558) The power and powerlessness of Europe

57. 4^th December 1999 to 30^th April 2000

    Changing times: a retrospective

58. 8^th October 1999 to 9^th January 2000

    Museo Nacional del Prado visits Bonn. Velázquez, Rubens and Lorrain – painting at the Court of Philipp IV

59. 15^th September 1999 to 9^th January 2000

    Alexander Humboldt. Networks of knowledge

60. 13^th August 1999 to 19^th March 2000

    Orinoko-Parima. Indian societies in Venezuela. The Cisnero Collection

61. 13^th May to 22^nd August 1999

    Bronze age gods and heroes – Europe in the times of Odysseus
    25th Council of Europe Exhibition

62. 23^rd April to 20^th June 1999

    Toshio Iwai. „Composition on the table“

63. 26^th March to 11^th July 1999

    Masterpieces from the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon

64. 19^th February to 16^th May 1999

    Selected works on paper from the Deutschen Bundestag Collection

65. 5^th February to 11^th April 1999

    André Raffray – „Lob den Anderen“ (Praise the others)

66. 29^th January to 21^st February 1999

    Art students present their work
    14th national competition

67. 11^th December 1998 to 11^th April 1999

    High Renaissance in the Vatican

68. 3^rd December 1998 to 7^th February 1999

    Jean Louis Boissier. „Second Promenade“

69. 25^th September 1998 to 10^th January 1999

    „100 Jahre Kunst im Aufbruch“ (100 years of art in a state of change) The Berlinische Galerie visits Bonn

70. 28^th August to 8^th November 1998

    Brian Eno. „Future Light Lounge Proposal“

71. 27^th May to 27^th September 1998

    From Ingres to Cézanne. Musée du Petit Palais

72. 15^th May to 23^rd August 1998

    The Iberians

73. 15^th May to 15^th July 1998

    Francisco Ruiz Infante. „Bestiaire“

74. 27^th March 1998 to 10^th January 1999

    „Gen-Welten. Prometheus im Labor?„ (Gene-worlds. Prometheus in a white coat?)

75. 19^th December 1997 to 19^th April 1998

    Arctic – Antarctic

76. 12^th December 1997 to 22^nd February 1998

    George Legrady. „Tracing“

77. 10^th October 1997 to 11th January 1998

    The Kunsthalle Bremen visits Bonn. Six centuries of masterpieces.

78. 5^th September to 2^nd November 1997

    Masaki Fujihata. „Global Interior Project & Beyond Pages“

79. 7^th June to 12^th October 1997

    Sigmar Polke. „Die drei Lügen der Malerei“ (The three lies of painting)

80. 7^th June to 20^th July 1997

    Jeffrey Shaw. „Place – a Users Manual“

81. 7^th May to 24^th August 1997

    German photography

82. 21^st March to 6^th April 1997

    Art students present their work
    13^th national competition

83. 7^th March to 24^th April 1997

    Ulrike Rosenbach. „Im Palast der neugeborenen Kinder“ (In the palace of the newborn children)

84. 21^st February to 11^th May 1997

    „Zwei Gesichter der Eremitage, St. Petersburg“
    (The two faces of the Hermitage, St. Petersburg)

85. 31^st January to 6^th April 1997

    Renzo Piano Building Workshop. „Out of the Blue“

86. 13^th December 1996 to 9^th February 1997

    Studio Azzuro. „Tavoli – Why these hands are touching me“

87. 6^th December 1996 to 2^nd March 1997

    NAPOLI! ... Mantegna, Raffael, Tizian, El Greco … Il Museo Nationale di Capodimonte, Naples

88. 27^th September to 10^th November 1996

    Austrian Art 1896 – 1996

89. 6^th September to 3^rd November 1996

    Bill Seaman. „Passage Sets“

90. 5^th July 1996 to 12^th January 1997

    The Moderna Museet Stockholm visits Bonn

91. 5^th June to 28^th July 1996

    Christa Sommer & Laurent Mignonneau. „A-Volve“

92. 10^th May to 25^th August 1996

    „Weisheit und Liebe“ (Wisdom and love. 1000 years of Tibetan Buddhist art)

93. 1^st March to 12^th May 1996

    Gary Hill. „Circular Breathing“

94. 23^rd February to 12^th May 1996

    Claes Oldenburg. An Anthology

95. 9^th February to 14^th April 1996

    Alfred Steglitz. Photography 1914-1936

96. 15^th December 1995 to 17^th March 1996

    „Im Lichte des Halbmonds. Das Abendland und der türkische Orient“
    (In the light of the half-moon. The Occident and Turkish Orient)

97. 10^th November 1995 to 21^st January 1996

    Marlene Dietrich

98. 10^th November 1995 to 14^th January 1996

    Grahame Weinbren. „Sonata“

99. 5^th November 1995 to 28^th January 1996

    „Scharfer Blick„ (A severe look). The Deutsche Künstlerbund in Bonn

100. 29^th September 1995 to 7^th January 1996

     Sarkis>>26.9.1938<<

101. 8^th September to 29^th October 1995

     Klaus vom Bruch. „Artaud spricht vor den Soldaten“ (Artaud addresses the troops)

102. 14^th July to 8^th October 1995

     Art in Germany. Contemporary works from the national collection

103. 9^th June to 20^th August 1995

     Nan Hoover. „Movement from either direction“

104. 19^th May to 22^nd October 1995

     Bernhard Heiliger. A retrospective 1945 - 1995

105. 7^th April to 13^th August 1995

     The Russian National Museum, St. Petersburg. The art and art history of Russia in objects and pictures

106. 10^th March to 7^th May 1995

     Agnes Hegedüs. „Between the Words“

107. 17^th February to 5^th July 1995

     „Unter dem Vulkan“ (Under the volcano) Antique works of art from the national archaeological museum, Naples

108. 2^nd December 1994 to 19^th February 1995

     Marcel Odenbach. „Tabakkollegium oder es brennt mir unter den Nägeln“

109. 25^th November 1994 to 26^th February 1995

     „Wunderkammer des Abendlandes. Museum und Sammlung im Spiegel der Zeit“
     (The Occident‟s Chamber of Wonders. Museum and Collection reflected in time)

110. 11^th November to 4^th December 1994

     Art students present their work
     12th national competition

111. 16^th September 1994 to 15^th January 1995

     Eva Appeli. Drawing, Painting, Sculpture 1953-1989

112. 16^th September to 13^th November 1994

     Jill Scott. „Machinedreams“

113. 15^th June to 29^th August 1994

     „Europe is far away“. A selection of eastern European video art

114. 25^th May to 16^th October 1994

     Europe, Europe. The century of the avant-garde in central and eastern Europe

115. 27^th May to 18^th October 1994

     Woody Vasulka. Interactive video installations

116. 18^th March to 1^st May 1994

     Ars longa Video brevis

117. 4^th March to 17^th April 1994

     Museum of Visual Arts, Leipzig. From Lucas Cranach senior to Caspar David Friedrich

118. 4^th February to 15^th May 1994

     Eli Lotar

119. 4^th February to 24^th April 1994

     „Bunuel? Auge des Jahrhunderts“ (Eye of the century)

120. 21^st January to 20^th February 1994

     Michael Petry. „The Chemistry of Love“

121. 10^th December to 13^th February 1994

     Gerhard Richter. Paintings 1962-1993

122. 28^th May 1993 to 2^nd January 1994

     „Sehsucht“ A panorama of mass entertainment in the 19^th century

123. 30^th April to 11^th July 1993

     „Tanzende Bilder“ (Dancing pictures) The flags of the Fante Asafo in Ghana

124. 1^st April to 26^th September 1993

     Alexander Calder. The major sculptures

125. 12^th February to 18^th April 1993

     Sam Francis

126. 26^th November 1992 to 24^th January 1993

     „Räume für Kunst“ (Spaces for Art)

127. 14^th October 1992 to 10^th January 1993

     The Museum of Modern Art, New York. From Cézanne to Pollock

128. 19^th June 1992 to 21^st March 1993

     „Erdsicht“ (Global view) Global change

129. 19^th June 1992 to 14^th February 1993

     Gustav Piechl

130. 19^th June to 1^st November 1992

     Niki de Saint Phalle

131. 19^th June to 20^th September 1992

     Pantheon of Photography in the 20^th Century

132. 19^th June to 20^th September 1992

     Territorium Artis