March 2 to May 13, 2007
MKM Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art

Peter Brüning (1929, Düsseldorf – 1970, Ratingen) is seemingly easy to characterize with contradictions: informal and pop, abstract and realistic, gestural and conceptual. His work ranges from expressive paintings from the Informel period to symbolic “traffic landscapes”, objects and installations.

One aim of the exhibition is to illustrate this artistic development to the visitor with all its breaks, transitions and equally logical and surprising results. As you walk through the show, the ‘contradictions’ quickly reveal themselves to be a devotion to his own time and an unconditional artistic consistency. For Peter Brüning’s work is by no means divided into two parts, but follows a continuous path in which each new idea is based on previous artistic experiences. And one realizes: Brüning is still and always up-to-date.