KLAUS RINKE
The fourth force

March 29 to June 23, 2019
MKM Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art Duisburg

Klaus Rinke (born 1939), a central figure in the Düsseldorf art scene around Joseph Beuys, is regarded as a “universal artist” who works in almost all media. For the first time, the MKM is presenting Rinke’s drawings in their entire spectrum at the center of an exhibition. The huge formats in which the artist realizes his graphite pictures and “drawn paintings” are unique. With dimensions of several meters, they fill entire rooms. In addition, there are numerous small-format studies spanning six decades. A total of around 300 works highlight the extraordinary importance and independence of drawing within Rinke’s artistic oeuvre. In them, the artist’s interest in the essence of the world is vividly condensed: time and space, body and gravity, the originality of essence and form, process and action – or in the words of Klaus Rinke: “The whole world lies in the scribble. You need imagination to recognize it and then the ability to put it into the world.”

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Klaus Rinke, born in Wattenscheid (*1939), is a trained poster painter, pioneer of process art and multiple documenta and Biennale participant. His works have been exhibited worldwide (including in solo exhibitions at the MoMA in New York, the Vienna Secession and the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul) and can be found in renowned national and international collections. The artist lives and works near Linz/Austria and maintains a studio in Los Angeles/California.

The exhibition is part of the AKADEMOS series, with which the MKM honors the professors of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where the artist taught for 30 years.

Curator: Robert Fleck, Prorector of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
The project is made possible by the generous support of the

as well as Ströer SE and private sponsors.

Picture gallery opening:

Photos: Georg Lukas, Essen